This morning I woke to find that I have no cold water to my kitchen faucet and also my refrigerator. There are no leaks etc in the basement ceiling (temperature about 40-50 degrees down there), and all other taps in the house have pressure and work fine. Also hot water taps have pressure and are fine. Is a valve stuck shut?

Kathi in Utah, January 2009

Update for all...thank you for your input. And you were right!...we are in a cold snap and it was frozen pipes. Woke up to more frozen taps (over the garage) this morning.

Called a plumber, and by just turning the heat up in the house, turning on the taps a little, and adding a small heater in the garage, thankfully they are all working again. The kitchen tap just needed insulation put back around it.

I will have to blow in insulation in my garage ceiling and perhaps add heat tape on one of the pipes up there. Also, weatherstripping around both my garage doors. And maybe just put a small heater out there when the temp hits lower tens. That should do it.

Again, thanks.

Kathi in Utah, January 2009

Kathi

Not being funny but how's the weather been in Utah lately? Below 32F? could the line be frozen? it happened in the morning could it have frozen that night?I don't expect valves to become shut by themselves they usually require moving has there been any work done lately? I kind of expect that the pipe to the fridge is taken from the pipe to the tap on the kitchen sink as they are, I imagine in the same room. Look under the sink, is there a valve on the pipe to the kitchen tap? is it closed?(righty tighty lefty loosey)
Do you have kids with a sense of humour or a cat with opposable thumbs? could the valve have been closed? you see if you still have hot water and the toilet flushes and so on I picture that the water tank in your roof space is filling so there is a water supply to your house; something has happened in or near to the kitchen. Here in the Good Old UK the kitchen and any other potable water supply comes from the same line as the water to the tank but is taken off before it goes to the tank so its not sitting around getting dusty or full of dead pidgeons. so I'd be looking under the sink.Or if you have one of those houses we see on telly with a big basement look in the basement under the kitchen and check out any valves you come across there.

Kenny F, January 2009