[monkeyboy950]

im sure it felt colder yesterday,but off all day,where do you buy isopropynal from??was just starting new work i had bought to,and was on my 1st house and wham sheet of ice on fronty windows tried the back same to,drove back after lunch and its still frozen so came home,want to do a decnet 1st job as im switching it from trad to wfp so less complaints the better ,so just left it hope it thaws out a bit,or i can buy some isopropynal and wont have that problem,im near glasgow so anyone up here get it from somewhere locally

[Nathanael Jones]

IPA helps a little,.. but not much. -3 last friday and my system froze with 500mls IPA in a 400 litre tank. You need huge amounts before it'll be really effective.

You can buy it cheap on ebay.

[monkeyboy950]

mine is a 1000 litre tank so wil need quite a bit me thinks,will get some off ebay was hoping somewhere local incase it happend tmrw again but will just have to get on with it

[lovewindows]

Waited till 10am [ had heater in van overnight ] still -2 , first job windows ok but spillage froze on floor, laid out some grit then hose froze !!!! went Chrimbo shopping instead.
Ps L5 users hot water freezes quicker than cold ,owts said

[Chris Galloway]

went to do a gutter vac clean first thing, dunno why i bothered, the gutter was full of water and moss and it was frozen solid. As i went to bed it was raining hard! it froze overnight...

Had to sack the gutter clean off, no point trying to ladder and bucket it as its was literally solid, wouldn;t budge, and i didnt want to have to replace sections of guttering if i broke it.

Hopefully it should warm up a bit or at least rain and not freeze in a few days time.

Will have my hot system ready at the weekend, so i could melt the ice next time

[dd]

If your happy to use ladders I found gutter cleaning easier when the contents of the gutter were frozen. I used a fork (the kind you eat dinner with) to lever out gutter contents. No goey mess, just comes out in big frozen chunks and does a better job and is quicker because everything comes out in nice frozen chunks.

This is not the sort of work I look for but definitely found it easier when frozen!

[dmlservices]

definatly easier when frozen, i use a flat utility bar , ( same as i used  when i fitted fascia / guttering) i use it to  lever it out , once you get the first bit out , its easy ,
and takes half the time.


daz

[kris martin]

i used ipa for the first time to day and there was no sign what so ever of frozen water yet a wc in my area was frozen off...