Frozen water main

I have a frozen water main. I am in the Rosemount area, anybody got a number for someone to come unthaw it. Thanks

Which Rosemont?

call the public works department of the city

Sent you some info on your facebook page.

Frozen main calls have slowed a bit this last week but still getting a few. Still think we have a few more weeks before we are out of the woods on this. Was at a house in blaine yesterday and could not believe how cold their water was coming in. Got a feeling the only thing saving them was a lot of people lived in that home and kept a lot of water flowing through that pipe.

If you are concerned about your home check the water temp. If its below 40 degrees you might want to consider leaving some water run at night or other times of light use to prevent the main from freezing.

Yep call the city. We have frozen water mains all over up here in the north country and the city municipalities have not had much luck getting them open. We have a rental in Park Rapids that we have to pull water from the neighbor with a garden hose until the main unfreezes by itself. Could be a couple of months. Its been a long cold winter but the worm has turned!!!

With 250 gph of water draining into my back yard for a month my water temp at the furthest faucet away from where the water enters the house, is 34 degrees.

Once the snow is gone we will have a skating rink!

Call your city.

My bathroom sink fixture is 61 years old and it’s shot. The faucets drip and there’s no repairing them anymore as the seats are pitted so bad. It’s at the top of my list of home projects. Then I started thinking about the frozen pipes so many people are dealing with…..maybe that continuous drip isn’t such a bad deal after all.

I got a hold of the city this morning on the waiting list. Sounds like it will be Monday afternoon before we have water.

Ron churchill
507-339-9322

Not sure if he will go that far but he did mine. He has been doing a lot of city work for rochester, Owatonna and fairbault.

I would be surprised if the city touches it. Most cities are saying once it is past the curb it is your problem, not theirs. Just be prepared to still have to call a plumber it to thaw.

Have even heard of one metro city this winter telling people that its theirs all the way to the middle of the street. Frozen mains before the curb stop and the homeowners need to hire to get it thawed. What a mess.

Then there’s quite a few people that have heard running the water is the savior to freezing water lines but live in the country where there is no central/city sewer system. The constant slow flow of water has their whole sewer line/sewer system/drain field froze up now until spring.

“What a mess”.

Think thats where Brians city told them to run it to the back yard to his future swimming pool.

Got one commercial customer that been on a weekly schedule for the last month to get there sewer main thawed. At 4 to 6 hundred a pop they are not to happy.

Up here, people have been fighting the same issue. Anywhere it is plowed, the frost is deep. Away from disturbance, though, there is little to no frost whatsoever. Digging my stuck sled out while in the woods, I was surprised to get to soft dirt. We were cautious to not disturb/pack the snow over the water line from the well, so I think we are ok. I hope.

A guy I know had the water main to his business freeze solid last week. Took the city 2 days and had to go all the way to a fire hydrant almost a mile down the road with the welder to finally thaw it out.

There seems like enough snow cover on the lawns to help insulate, the roads and other bare areas are where the frost is getting deep. His business is at the end of a street and there are no other water outlets between the hydrant and his building, the city said the pipe ran right down the center of the road and it looked like it was frozen the entire distance under the road.

I live in town and frost here is down 9′ in unplowed areas. I’ve been running water since the last couple of days in Feb. Guess my neighbor wasn’t and I now have a line going through the woods over to her place as electricity couldn’t get her going again.

We went to the cabin and can’t get to the pole barn due to snow and can’t use any water. Frozen to the lift tank and just comes up the floor drain. Nice temps during the day but below freezing at night. Back to the outhouse!

My parents just got home from AZ yesterday only to find out they have no water. They were gone for two weeks and the water line out to the well runs right under their sidewalk.

The main is a poly, so my dad went and bought 50′ of 3/8″ pex. Hooked up a water pump from a tile saw and has been chewing away at the ice. He has been taking the water and heating it on a stove when it cools down. I think he has been at it a good part of the day today I figure he has thawed 30-40′, and has the last 10-15′ to go to reach the pump.

What a pain!

My parents finally got their water back yesterday. My dad got most of the pipe free of ice, however he still could not get running water. Ended up calling the well guy, and they came out and found that the pitless adapter was still frozen solid. My dad was not able to get the pex pipe he was using down far enough to thaw that last part of it.

Anyways, after they pushed the chunk of ice out of it and put the well back together everything worked just fine. The well guy said he has been doing these at a rate of about 1/day.

Good to here they got it going Hemi.

Roof drain calls have been coming in pretty good the last week. Once that last warm spell hit. Have heard of a few commercial buildings with some major damage going on. Got a call on Monday from a manager that his entire roof was draining into the center of his store. Those lines are froze and either not letting the roofs drain or bursting apart and draining into the building. Jetters or steamers are getting them open. Dont think you can do a welder on these as many are either plastic or have rubber gaskets that join the pipes together.