Honest, thorough Frozen Pipe Repair
A frozen pipe is a countdown, not a wait-and-see. Ice expands, and the split usually happens where you cannot see it — inside an exterior wall, in a crawlspace, or in an unheated garage — so the flooding starts when it thaws. If you have no water at one fixture on a cold morning and the rest of the house is fine, shut off your main and call. Do not use a torch or open flame on a pipe; it is the most common cause of both burst lines and house fires in a cold snap.
We thaw with controlled heat, check the line under pressure once it is flowing, and repair any split section on the spot. Then we deal with the reason it froze: an uninsulated run, a cold-air path into a wall cavity, an unheated section that needs rerouting, or an outdoor tap that was never shut off and drained in the fall. Fixing the cause is what keeps it from happening again every February.