In the end, we ended up hiring a professional to melt the ice in our cabin's frozen drain. The pipe was frozen from somewhere up by the leach field to all the way under the cabin. Our steam engineer was able to access the entire line from outside. He was able to clear in forty-five minutes a blockage that we had spent hours working on to no effect. After seeing the scope of the freeze, I better understand why our efforts proved to be so useless.
Currently, the cabin's pipes are draining nicely and we have one of the taps running a perpetual stream. Our plan is still to check on the cabin daily. We are fortunate in that the ice does not seem to have damaged the pipes themselves. All told, this could have been much worse--I'm certainly glad that Janelle decided to check the cabin when she did. It was a chore that I found entirely too easy to put off.
With the forecast showing a greater thaw later this week--to the point of temperatures passing above the freezing mark, I pray that the deep freezes are over for the winter. Still, I won't count the cold as being out just yet.
Currently, the cabin's pipes are draining nicely and we have one of the taps running a perpetual stream. Our plan is still to check on the cabin daily. We are fortunate in that the ice does not seem to have damaged the pipes themselves. All told, this could have been much worse--I'm certainly glad that Janelle decided to check the cabin when she did. It was a chore that I found entirely too easy to put off.
With the forecast showing a greater thaw later this week--to the point of temperatures passing above the freezing mark, I pray that the deep freezes are over for the winter. Still, I won't count the cold as being out just yet.
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