Hindsight would be marvellous - but is in short supply....

We've been out of the country for over three weeks so the very cold
weather was not expected when we left.

I turned down the boiler so it was still putting heat around the house
.... just in case.

On our return we weren't greeted with aburst pipe, but a frozon pipe
between the boundary box in the pavement and the house.

The Water Co. suggested waiting for it to defrost and suggested
pouring a bucket full of warm water of the meter/stopcock to get some
heat in that end, is ther anything more that I can do?

The house is built into the side of a hill with the living
accomodation being upstairs and the bedrooms/bathroom downstairs. The
boundary box is in the pavement at the upstairs level, and the pipe
then says sub-surface and enters the house through the bathroom floor
- the internal stopcock in behind the bath.

Other than puilling up carpets and floorboards and trying to find a
frozen pipe and gently defrost it if possible is there anything to bo
done?

We've got ho****er in the tank - could I connect the hot water to the
cold and back feed some warm water into the cold system to try to get
to the frozen bit...?

Helpful tHoughts please

Ta

Steve