Idea to help outside faucets and water wells

[Keith]

I’ve got my torch with a medium welding tip propped up a few inches off my exterior spigot and running around the clock. It’s cost me two 130cf tanks of acetylene and a 245 of oxygen so far but no frozen spigot.

And people at we suburbanites don’t know how to survive.


Jk!


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Wouldn't a heat lamp do the same thing, way cheaper?

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[Playa]

Wouldn't a heat lamp do the same thing, way cheaper?

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A 75 watt incandescent light bulb is working for me.

I have a 6’ hose with 5’6” of heat trace and pipe insulation wrapping it. I was worried bout the last the 6” freezing and not being able to give the dogs fresh water. So I added a work light with a 75 W bulb tucked under my hose reel box and the hose end laying a few inches away. So far nice and warm

[muzzlebrake]

I leave cabinet doors open and drip any faucet located near an outside wall. I cover the outside hose bibbs and don't worry if they freeze. By dripping an inside faucet you are relieving internal pipe pressure so any freezing on an outside wall hydrant will press back inside and relieve itself. Just don't go out an try to operate the hose bibb handles until they thaw or you thaw them with a heat gun. If your house has a crawl space you had better close off any crawl space vents around the grade beam or pipes under the house will surely freeze in this kind of cold whether or not you drip the faucets.

[super_dave]

I put a hot hands pouch under the styrofoam covers

Works great. Change em every 8 hours


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[JFFB]

Pipes

I had my exterior faucets dripping and now they are frozen. What now?


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Hair dryer.

[Hunter98]

Wrapping our pipes didn’t work and neither did the covers so I came up with this. Galvanized buckets with lightbulbs inside. Attached with a hook installed in the mortar.

Awesome

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[slabnabbin]

My spigots on the garage walls that are not insulated froze this morning even wrapped in towels. I doubled up the towels and put grocery sacks over them to keep the moisture off. Then cut the Sheetrock and wrapped the pipes with my heat mats I use to start seeds.


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[Geezy Rider]

There ya go. Boom!

[Smith]

So living in WI, we didn't always drain water from the lines running to outside spigots. Had copper pipes. We had weeks of sub 10 degrees, and never had a pipe burst.

Doing nothing they will likely be just fine.

All the Midwest houses have frost free spigots that don’t have to be covered. I never understood why builders don’t do that in TX. It’s not super expensive, but almost nobody does it.