The question is how to unfreeze a frozen sewer pipe in her own home, with the advent of cold weather there. This problem is common, suggesting an inability or ignorance of the majority of people, how to lay a sewage system underground. When the problem of stagnation of water, it is necessary to understand how to melt accumulated ice in the sewer pipe.
The causes of ice dams
Before we talk about ways of warming the water drain in a private home, you need to understand the reasons for its occurrence. There may be several:
- One of the common causes of freezing in winter gutter system is incorrect laying of the pipeline above the frost line.
- Lack or poor quality insulation leads to the freezing of the pipes.
- The old, soiled system is subject to frequent clogging and hence freezing of water inside.
- Incorrectly created a bias. When you create a sewerage system, water supply system to be installed with a slope towards the septic tank or cesspool. If the slope has not been carried out or is low, the water will be drained slowly, stagnate in the pipeline.
That is why for laying drainage system should be approached responsibly and do everything exactly according to the scheme laying system.
Carry out defrosting pipes sewer system in several ways. The choice of works to heating depends on:
- Pipe manufacturing material (metal or plastics);
- place ice plug arrangement;
- mash size.
Based on these criteria, will be selected tools addressed further ways to fix the problem at home.
Removal of ice plugs in the metal sewer
Now there are few who create the waste system of metal pipes, but built 10-20 years ago, it is very important for homes. The metal system is good because heating of sewage pipes, can be achieved by conventional burner or a special apparatus for defrosting liquid.
Before starting work, you must determine the place of location of the jam. To do this, conducted a series of activities:
- Metallic thin tube or wire is passed in the Audit window and pushed into the sewerage system.
- As soon as the wire contacts the solid object, it is an ice jam.
- To ensure the accuracy of locations, from the septic tank held similar events.
- The same subject, which was carried out reconnaissance of stagnation places postponed distance of the sewer line card. In place of the stop surface of the pipe is applied mark the location where the ice plug.
If the portion near the freezing metal sewer pipe, located manhole is strongly simplify the work.
Reach underground pipe through the soil is frozen hard. Have to release part of the system from the ground in the place where the ice plug. For this it is necessary to dig a trench or hole up to the pipe. Once contact was made with a metal surface, it is possible to start the release of frozen water from the system.
Simple means to deal with ice jams
If the pipes are frozen inside and lie deep under the ground, which means that the act will have on the outside, so the inside of the pipeline. The methods may be as follows.
Burner
The most effective and simple way - to warm drains via blowtorch or gas burner. It is simple:
- Ignites the burner, creating an open fire.
- Send it on a frozen land.
During the work on the defrosting, you must open the tap water to warm the liquid can easily flow through the pipeline. In this gas boiler column or disconnected.
welding transformer
When the water freezes in the sewer pipe made of cast iron, you can take advantage of the welding apparatus. Work carried out in several stages:
- The place of the mash.
- With the insulator pipe is removed, the surface is cleaned and degreased.
- On the metal surface are laid electric wires connected to the secondary winding of the welding machine.
- Installed on the machine and the minimum current level is connected to the network.
- After heating the thawed liquid will drain through the system.
In this method, there is a side effect: line after such actions quickly rust.
Important! Connect and disconnect the cables only after the welding machine is switched off. Otherwise, you risk getting an electric burn your hands and eyes.
Brine
The salt dissolves well and water pollution, so many people in private homes often use a brine solution for the elimination of ice jams. Usual salt diluted in warm water and poured into the system. The solution quickly cope with a little jam, but when large areas of frost inside, will have to wait. salt water freezing temperature is lower than usual. So do not worry that it will freeze and will add to the previous problem still difficulties.
Plain cloth
If the problem is the sewage system is freezing inside the building and the pipe are convenient access, you can try to unfreeze them using hot water and a rag. This will require a lot of old material, it is desirable that it absorbs water. Rags wrapped portion of missed pipe, which pours hot water. The material will absorb the hot water and warm up ice in the tube plug. It is also necessary to put the water tank, which is not absorbed.
Features defrosting plastic pipes
The methods are suitable for metal sewer, not suitable for plastic. It is impossible to start up current of polyethylene or heat them burner. For plastic sewage perfect way to hot water.
In every house there is a hose for watering. It is also possible to use a smaller composition pipe, but its application is only suitable for small area. Ordinary plastic hose, in this case, too, will not work. It is necessary to take a hard, but sufficiently flexible hose, which can be pushed along the entire length of the pipeline. Further procedure will be as follows:
- Open the shut-off valve.
- One end of the hose is fastened to the tap hot-water, the other end is inserted into a sewage system.
- Warm water will flow through the gaps left between the hose and the pipe, so you should take care of the place or container in which it will flow.
- Under the pressure of the hot water and ice quickly conceals breaks logjam.
- After complete removal of the ice jam shut-off valve is closed tightly to prevent re-freezing system.
This method is effective in small tubes in a straight section of pipeline.
To defrost the plastic pipe can be used another method - the use of PETN. Carried out the following actions:
- The device is attached to the rigid platform in such a way that its end extends over the front part and the rest was on the mount.
- By the size of the pipe and sewer length prepare appropriately sized electric cable.
- Connected cable with Taine, and carefully insulated terminals.
- steel tube of smaller size is set ahead of the assembled structure than sewage. She will play the role of the pusher.
- The entire construction is placed into the pipe, preferably from the septic tank.
- After the installation of the heating system near the plug, the device connects to electricity.
- As the ice melts, TAN moves deeper to eliminate traffic jams.
When you move the heater must be disconnected from electricity. If ice congestion arose near the toilet bowl to a suitable system, you can also try to heat the water inside the compact conventional boiler.
Finally, you can use plastic drainage system is another method based on simple laws of physics. If the home there is a skein of twisted pair wires and skillful hands. This method kindling ice in the pipe for you.
Water - good electric conductors. If you submit to it a small discharge current, it becomes hot. To do this, disconnect the two electrodes. This can be done as follows:
- In a dual-core hard wire with a knife disconnect the wires so that one was shorter than the other.
- Remove a few centimeters from each isolate.
- Gently bends and swathe it around the part that remained isolated.
- Wind the liberated areas at a time on the wire. The distance between them should be small, but they must not touch.
After the wire will be prepared, one end is lowered into the sewer system. It should be noted that before the ice jam is always a little water. It gets peeled end of the wire, and the other is inserted into the socket. In this manner, current is supplied, the water warms up, which in turn melts the ice. Advancing as the melting of the plug wire, you can completely get rid of it.
Check operation of the device by using conventional cans with water. Immerse the one end, the other is connected to an outlet in the water will be small bubbles, you will hear a slight buzz characteristic.
As the ice melts will accumulate water. It needs to be pumped to the new cork does not appear at the time, as you will be thawed deeper layers mash.
It is not necessary to undertake this method of defrosting, if not familiar with electricity.
How to avoid problems
As you can see, remove the ice jam problems can be in many ways, but it is better to avoid such problems. To this end, a series of preventive measures should be carried out:
- Sewage pipeline system laid below the soil freezing.
- If the ground is frozen to a great depth, take care of the warming of pipes. You can use a variety of insulation insulation, making the assembly of sewer pipes with insulation factory, laying hold heating cable in the gutter.
- If the house is not suitable for permanent residence, before hibernation, you must reset all of the water from the system. Then problems with stagnation and freezing of water will not occur.
conclusion
To avoid problems with freezing water drain, it is necessary to competently carry out system improvement. If this problem occurs, use our tips on defrosting pipes, in view of their working material. These methods help to cope with the problem alone.
