{"id":21830,"date":"2026-02-15T22:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21830"},"modified":"2026-02-17T22:55:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T21:55:53","slug":"daily_4001_-_frozen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2026\/02\/15\/daily_4001_-_frozen\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 4001 – frozen"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Some of our water pipes froze overnight. Not for the first time. The last time was no more than 5 years ago, and somehow I still forgot that this can happen, and didn’t turn on the heating coils ahead of the cold snap. (–17°C this morning.)<\/p>\n

I started the dishwasher before I went to bed, and by morning – no more than eight hours later – the cold water pipe in the kitchen had frozen. The pipe to the shower was not entirely frozen, but only a tiny trickle of water was coming through.<\/p>\n

Went to the basement, plugged in the cord for the heating coils. Turned on the tap in the kitchen partway, and same with the shower. Waited. Waited another day. I was getting to the point of looking up the prices of heat blowers and resigning myself to the need of buying one (I know we had one in 2018<\/a> but have no idea where it is now) when the shower came back online. Three hours later, the water in the kitchen was back on as well.<\/p>\n

I thought I had opened the shower just a little bit, but I forgot to take into account just how light the shower head is. Even that gentle flow of water was enough to throw the shower head around so it ended up showering half the bathroom. I was in a Teams meeting with work when it happened; had to rush to turn off the camera and run to the bathroom to turn the water off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Some of our water pipes froze overnight. Not for the first time. The last time was no more than 5 years ago, and somehow I still forgot that this can happen, and didn’t turn on the heating coils ahead of the cold snap. (–17°C this morning.) I started the dishwasher before I went to bed, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,22,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies","category-house_and_garden","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21830"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21833,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21830\/revisions\/21833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}