"Larry Green" wrote: (clip) the cold water eluded me for a while and
finally I had to call the landlord and ask him where it was. (clip)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
And did the landlord take care of the repair, or were you stuck for it.



He was there within 5-10 minutes of my call along with his wife and both
are retirement age. He made the repairs *after* he and his wife helped
'bail out' the utility room using buckets, mops and snow shovels!
Thankfully the floor in there is about 3" lower than the rest of the
house so most of the water was contained to the floor of the one room.

My biggest concern was the 'waterfall' of water was spraying all over
the rather old electrical panels located directly above the breaks but
once the leak was stopped I checked the panels and they were bone
dry......PHEW!

It turns out the exhaust duct for the dryer only had a plastic shopping
bag stuffed in it and an icy wind had been 'funnelled' directly over the
pipes freezing them solid and splitting the copper pipes. Obviously the
water then burst through when they thawed. As we did not have a machine
hooked up at the time we never noticed they were frozen in the first place.

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Larry Green