I looked into the pipewatchman but the website is offline, the number doesn’t work and it got a poo rating on amazon.

Should I just leave my hose on drip?

HELP! Otherwise it is another year of filling coleman camping containers with water and taking them by sled, LOL.

If the line is freezing underground, the only solution would be to dig it up and put the line deeper, below the frost line. Your local extension agent should be able to give you a recommendation as to how deep.

We are just now running the waterline out to the barn, about 200 feet of line. So here’s my pointers for a happy water winter.

1. Dig the trench a foot below the “frost line” for your area.

2. Run TWO lines from your source to the barn. One “live” that you’ll hook up to your main source and to the barn fixtures, and one “dummy” that you will cap on both ends, and lay alongside the live line. Take a plastic loop fastener and attach it to both ends. It will basically just lay there until you may need it some day. Why? Pipe is CHEAP. Digging line is HARD. 10 or more years down the road, if a leak springs up somewhere in between, we dig down at both ends, hook up the new line and voila.

3. Use a “frost free” fixture in the barn, make sure it’s installed correctly. Go pick up a ratty old comforter at the thrift store and a plastic trash can. Wrap and cover the fixture when the temperature drops, or use a heat tape.

4. If you pipe from stall to stall, be sure it’s installed on an angle and leave individual valves open in the cold. (Cut off the water at the main frost free spigot in the barn and let it drain.)

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You let a small trickle run. Of course it would be better to just have the plumber or electrician install some heat wire on the water pipe in the outside wall and crawlspace. It does require cutting open the wall a little to put it in, but so does fixing a busted pipe. The wire is then hooked up to a thermal link and it will come on just a little when the air outside gets cold!

You can also open the wall and install some insulation around the pipe – on the outside so the pipe still gets heat from the interior of the house, just less cold from outside. Interior pipes should be OK and drains have some composting heat in them. so they do not freeze. Cold water pipes freeze before hot water pipes.

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You’re going to have to get dirty! Get under the home and wrap your pipes (they sale wrap just for keeping your pipes warm). Also any place around the skirting of your mobile home that lets alot of air thru should be insulated to prevent as much air flow (not all).

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There are 3 sinks and one bathtub. Do I have to have every one of the faucets dripping to prevent freezing?

Thanks

I would drip them all just in case. Keep in mind though that depending on how cold it is where you live, there may be nothing you can do to prevent this. Sometimes its just too dang cold.

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