Frozen Pipe Repair in Katy, TX

Signs it is frozen vs already burst

Still frozen (this page):

• No water at a faucet, or a thin trickle that will not build
• A hose bib or an exterior-wall sink that went silent overnight
• Frost or a cold bulge on a visible pipe in the garage or attic
• The rest of the house still has pressure
• Already burst:
• Water on the floor, in a ceiling, or in a cabinet
• A hiss you can hear after the ice lets go
• The meter is spinning with nothing open
• If it is already flooding, shut the resident-side main (do not operate the city meter) and use Burst Pipe Repair in Katy, TX.

What to do before we arrive

Shut the resident-side main. Do not operate the city meter. That protects you if the ice lets go while you are waiting.

Open a faucet on the frozen line so pressure has somewhere to go as the ice melts.

Gentle heat only on a pipe you can see. A warm towel, room heat, or a hair dryer on low, on a line you can actually reach. Never a torch, never an open flame, never boiling water on PVC. Heat that belongs on copper will wreck PVC.

Leave the attic hatch or garage door in a sensible place so we can get to the run. Do not start tearing out cabinets. A freeze in the attic or under the house may already be cracked. That is why we inspect after the thaw, not why you wait it out.

City posts sometimes say to trickle a faucet. Some MUDs say not to drip the neighborhood. We do not pick a copied side. We thaw the blockage and inspect. Your notice is the drip rule, not this page.

How we thaw and inspect

1. Licensed Master Plumbers do this work.
2. Confirm it is ice, not a closed valve or a different outage.
3. Controlled thaw on the frozen section. No open flame. No boiling on PVC.
4. Restore water slowly. A sudden hit of pressure on a pipe that just opened is how a hidden split shows up in a ceiling.
5. Post-thaw inspect. We look where a leak hides after a Katy snap: ceiling drywall, sink cabinets on an exterior wall, the attic, under the house, the garage, the hose bib, pool or sprinkler, and the irrigation or backflow box.
6. Written price before we start the thaw and the inspect, after we see the line. No invented hours.

Why pipes freeze on the Gulf Coast

Katy plumbing is built for heat, not for a two-night snap. Hose bibs, pool and sprinkler lines, attic and garage runs, cabinets, and exterior-wall pipes sit in the wind. Many houses are slab-built and have no basement mechanical room. Some are not, and under-house lines freeze too. When a rare freeze or a Uri-class night hits, those spots ice first. This is not “every winter,” and it is not a vacation-home story.

Why Katy homeowners trust Ory’s

Service areas

• Katy, TX (77450 and 77494)
• Cinco Ranch
• Cross Creek Ranch
• Seven Meadows
• Cane Island
• Firethorne
• Fulshear
• West Houston

Frozen pipe repair for homes and light-commercial properties in: Same rare hard freeze, same attic, garage, hose bib, and pool or sprinkler lines.