The pipes come in from the well at the inside wall which is now the kitchen. They ran a short line to the refrigerator along the inside wall, and the plumber had the contractor build an additional 6" wall, inside the 6" exterior wall. The pipes to the sink turn the corner (behind the cooktop cabinet) and 6-8' along the outside wall, behind the cabinets, but completely enclosed within the 12" double insulated wall. In retrospect, I know neither plumber nor contractor used the foam pipe insulation or heat tape, as was done on the exposed pipes inside the barn. We can access the pipes by pulling off the siding on the outside wall, under the window, cut through everything and remove the insulation. Hopefully they are not broken and we can thaw them out, insulate and run heat tape. If there is a break we'll have to call the plumber. As it happens, we have had some freakish cold weather, down from Alaska with record lows, -1 Sat night with a high of 12 yesterday, but it's 6 degrees right now and the wind has dropped so are predicting a high of 30 before it drops off again. We have hot & cold water every single place in the entire 3500', except the kitchen sink. Packed insulation between the barn doors and the exterior wall last night and ran furnace, fireplace, quartz heaters and hairdryer etc, in and around the cabinets all day and all night, with no luck. A drop now and then but never broke up. I'm fairly sure that the block and/or break, is in that stretch under the window. I read online, you can rent a blower and apply heat from the outside but since we have so much insulation inside the wall, not sure that would work either. Too late, too smart, :) Slowly but surely we'll get the place in shape. We can always live upstairs a week or so if necessary. The good news is we had to have it reappraised (for medical purposes) and was very pleasantly surprised!
The other part of the problem/ solution is that, until/ unless it burst, you are not 100% sure of WHERE exactly it is freezing, and you (might) be working 10-ft away from the problem? Unless you pull sheetrock all the way back to where it leaves the interior wall?
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