First time homeowner here so please forgive the newbie question. I’m in Texas so our houses aren’t built for the cold. We’re going through freezing temps at night right now, with temps getting up well above freezing during the day. I woke up this morning to my kitchen faucet not having water (at all) when turning it to the hot setting. It’s the type of faucet that you just turn left (hot) and right (cold) and lift to open. The cold water side is fine. The two other faucets found in the two bathrooms have hot water without issues, but they have separate faucets for hot and cold. I’ve been religiously dripping all our faucets every night since last week. Is it possible something froze? And what I can do to start figuring out the problem and possibly fix myself?

Thanks in advance!

Edit: Here’s what it looks like under the sink. The upper left tube is what I believe is the hot water, the right for cold, and the bottom goes to the dishwasher.

Update: Water finally came out! I left the faucet open on hot, then ran hot water on all the sinks and showers in the bathrooms to get the water heater pumping. After around 10 minutes, water started to trickle and eventually went full blast. I’ll make sure to drip the hot water as well and not just cold from here on out! Thanks to everyone who responded!

  • edric@lemm.eeOPEnglish
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    9 days ago

    Thanks for the response. Unfortunately I also did the same, just dripped the cold faucets. Thankfully the rest of our plumbing seems to work fine though. And ironically our kitchen sink is on an island in the middle of the kitchen, so not by an exterior wall. The pipes under the sink don’t feel frozen and I left the doors open overnight to keep them exposed to the heating. I believe our house uses pex as well. Did you just leave it open on a hot setting? I’ll probably try doing that and see if it eventually flows.