The husband and the plumber became ashamed of how the wife decided for them the issue of defrosting the pipe in a country house
Author: Tatiana Goryacheva."Send your articles too, and we will publish them!"
Two years ago, in the coldest frosts, my husband was cleaning the snow near the house so hard that he froze the pipe at the entrance to this very house.
In the morning I went to wash, HOP! - but there is no water! We call our plumber (he makes a diagnosis by phone), offers to do this and that - there is no water! As a result of remote examination, our "master Grisha" makes a verdict: the water in the pipe has frozen.
And he says that he will not do anything until the 30-degree frosts have ended - it is pointless. He advises to collect belongings and bring them to Arbat ...
T. e. we stayed in a hefty house, 90 km from Moscow, with two dogs, a basket full of magical plans, but practically without water! Two 19-liter cylinders - that's the whole supply ...
They invited a friend (he not only has a higher technical education, but also - what is important - he also lives in the country all year round, and got into a similar situation).
Boil, the hostess says, the kettle: we will slowly pour water into the pipe from the boiler room through the funnel!
It means that I warm water, and my husband and the master carefully pour it into the pipe. Boiling water does not want to go into the pipe, and almost all of it is poured into a substituted basin. After the third teapot, I understand that the location of the ice plug cannot be established, it length is unknown, and the process of heating the pipe with micro-doses of boiling water runs the risk of stretching to infinity.
And here I (oh, miracle!) Turn on the previously never used part of the brain, which is responsible for technical thought. Namely: I remember that in my closet there is a powerful Karcher STEAM GENERATOR idle!
I pour water into the tank, find a thin tube, fasten it with masking tape to a regular hose, and drag all this splendor into the boiler room.
Oh, miracle! - after 8 minutes of steam exposure to a frozen pipe, a loud PMAC is heard from there, and ...
Hurray, we are breaking, the Swedes are bending! (I mean - hurray! The pipe was warmed up, there is water, you can write and take a bath !!!)
The next day the "mastergrish" arrived, admired my sharpness, but just in case, he ran a special heating cable in the pipe ...
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