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[thunderlizard]

I thought randomly someone on here might suggest how to thaw a plastic pipe.

So that's what he was doing!

[Zippy]

So that's what he was doing!

[RichardCranium]

Got any thick rubber gloves?

Get your old hand towels and similar cleanish cotton rags together.

Using the kettle / saucepan on the stove, half fill the washing up bowl with boiling water.

Soak the rags in the hot water in the washing up bowl and then wrap them around the frozen pipe.

Leave them there while you heat up more water. Once you have another bowl of hot water, soak another set of dry rags / towels. Remove the 1st set from the frozen pipe and apply the 2nd set.

While the 2nd set of rags / towels are warming the pipe, wring out the 1st set as much as you can and be heating the 3rd batch of hot water.

Keep going until you are completely drunk. (You are having beer as you do this, aren't you?)

This should apply enough heat to defrost the pipe without the risk of using a blowlamp or applying boiling water direct onto the really cold plastic.

[Scary]

I'm sure the fault code on your boiler is more interesting to watch.

[suityou01]

Got any thick rubber gloves?

Get your old hand towels and similar cleanish cotton rags together.

Using the kettle / saucepan on the stove, half fill the washing up bowl with boiling water.

Soak the rags in the hot water in the washing up bowl and then wrap them around the frozen pipe.

Leave them there while you heat up more water. Once you have another bowl of hot water, soak another set of dry rags / towels. Remove the 1st set from the frozen pipe and apply the 2nd set.

While the 2nd set of rags / towels are warming the pipe, wring out the 1st set as much as you can and be heating the 3rd batch of hot water.

Keep going until you are completely drunk. (You are having beer as you do this, aren't you?)

This should apply enough heat to defrost the pipe without the risk of using a blowlamp or applying boiling water direct onto the really cold plastic.

This is what I shall do. Minus the beer as it's too early.
Thanks RC. Top work.

[suityou01]

Pipe thawed. Boiler on.

[RichardCranium]

Pipe thawed. Boiler on.

I think your missus owes you a BJ and you owe me a beer.

[suityou01]

I think your missus owes you a BJ and you owe me a beer.

I can CATEGORICALLY asure you this will be delivered in the correct order.

[OwlHoot]

Also had this a couple of days ago.

The gas is running out and our Tesco's has already sold out of candles.

Oh God, I see Jonah McMong has assured the country today that the gas will not run out!

That means it will run out for sure. We'll all be frozen to death in our beds by the end of the week!

(I wonder if Sainsburys still has any hot water bottles in stock.)

[suityou01]

I wonder if Sainsburys still has any strong ale bottles in stock

HTH