Kay Keefe said Tuesday the telephone has been “ringing off the hook,” hearing from customers seeking help with burst and frozen water pipes sustained amid recent below-freezing temperatures in the area.
“We can only do so much,” said the owner of Keefe Plumbing Co. in Chattanooga by phone, adding she expects the number of calls to grow — as dammed up pipes thaw due to warmer weather, water starts to run again, and people realize they’ve got a problem.
Plumbing companies across the region are grappling with the surge in calls from the effects of the arctic blast that sent thermometers plunging late last week through the long Christmas holiday period.
Leeann Wooten of Chattanooga Battlefield Plumbing said there have been more than 100 requests for a plumber mostly due to burst pipes.