This past winter was so cold our buried water pipe running between the lake and our cottage froze in Ompah, Ontario. This has never happened before and the cottage was built way back in 1972. Apparently the frost line was deeper than normal for this area of Canada this winter. Digging down to find the buried water pipe, we found the ground frozen solid six feet down! Fortunately, the soil at the cottage is sandy rather than full of clay as it is here in Kanata, although it was still a big job. The pipe was rerouted so it no longer goes under the covered patio, but instead will be snow covered for better insulation in winters to come.
The good news is we had planned (eventually) to rebuild the patio, so the frozen pipe turned out to be motivation to start the patio project…
good luck, this sounds like a tedious, yet fun job!
Strange, huh? I heard of people who frozen pipes late into the spring for that same reason. Even though the air had warmed up, the ground was still frozen.
May we not have another relentless deep freeze of a winter any time soon . . .
it’s a myth that running water won’t freeze….I work on ice machines and for high volume ice production they use running water…http://www.icelings.net/
my bad…so many people leave it running…you were flushing the lines……
That’s cold. Good luck with the patio project!
Oh no! Speedy recovery!
oh wow!!! now that’s digging yourself into a hole…my prayers
I was making a bad joke…referring to the fall
Nothing like forced motivation! Good luck with that…doesn’t sound fun at all!