NO WATER COMING OUT

[mamakole]

Hi! I'm a new member and not quite sure how to post my problem, but I need help!! I had a tenant call with frozen water pipes. The weather warmed enough, same day, thawing water, then busted water line; repaired;all water working at this point. Tenant calls week later, " something wrong with water. I check it, small stream coming from faucets (randomly) then stopped. At this point I'm thinking water starting to freeze; it being late night, I turned breaker off and water off at main. Next morning, turned water on at main, all cold water working. No water coming through any hot water faucets.

Here's the mystery to me. With hot water faucets open, I turn cold water on in bathroom sink and water starts running thru hot water faucets in bathtub and kitchen sink. I turn cold off and all goes off. This is a Rudd Glaspacemaker electric tank.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Jadnashua]

Most single handle faucets allow a mix of hot and cold so if one of those was not fully turned to all cold, some water could back feed into the hot side.

The act of heating water tends to drive out some of the entrapped air and may precipitate out some minerals...those impurities now being less than the cold water can mean the water that had been heated will freeze at a higher temperature than the raw cold water. Sounds like you still have a frozen hot water line, disrupting the supply to those devices. If you can get hot somewhere, and can't other places, the frozen section is in between the two.

 

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[Cacher_Chick]

The hot water line can freeze even before the cold one. Make sure all of the supply piping is protected from freezing. It is common for a frozen pipe to rupture during the thawing process.

 

[Master Plumber Mark]

take a salamander and blow hot air into the crawl space...

if you dont burn down the home and it dont fix the problem

I suggest that you call a plumber...

 

[Standardairconditioner]

I suggest that you call a plumber...

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[hj]

Opening hot and cold water faucets PAST the point where the line is frozen will ALWAYS allow backflow into the frozen one, but that only means the line is still frozen.

 

[Master Plumber Mark]

I wonder if he has burnt down the home yet....

anyone been watching the news?????