Freeze Proof Heated Water Hose,

Surely I'm not the only one who thinks combining water and 120V is a bad idea? I've lost friends that way...

RoyB wrote:
Must be something like this one from google search - Never played with one.. Looks like you just plug it into 120VAC... Cost is $120

Roy Ken

A good deal of what will freeze on the pedestal involves the freeze line in the area. In our area, for instance, the ground freezes to four feet below grade, so just attaching a heated hose is guaranteed to result in a frozen pedestal during the winter.

In case you're wondering, building codes in areas such as ours require so-called freeze-proof faucets and hydrants, imaged below. However, note that you cannot leave a hose attached to these faucets/hydrants when it's freezing.





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Lynn

moonlightrunner wrote:
My homemade heated hose has excess pipe tape hanging out expressly to wrap the pipe stand hose bibb with and I use Reflectix on the pipe stand. It is used fulltime and I do stay in freezing temps.

That ought to work:)

My homemade heated hose has excess pipe tape hanging out expressly to wrap the pipe stand hose bibb with and I use Reflectix on the pipe stand. It is used fulltime and I do stay in freezing temps.

Vulcaneer wrote:
Couple days ago in High Point, NC. Neighbor had one. Temps dropped to 3*. His hose was fine. But stand pipe and faucet froze. He was out of business. Same as me. But my everyday old hose didn't freeze. I removed it and took it in overnight.

Think some aren't understanding this...The heated hose can work fine, BUT, if the water supply freezes, what good is the heated hose going to do for you? Our water faucet at our campsite in WV sets about 2' above ground. I had an extra heavy duty plastic bag, wrapped the pipe coming out of the ground, spigot, pressure regulator, everything in insulation, taped it up, then put the plastic bag over everything and taped it tight as low to the ground as I could....got down below zero with wind chill, no frozen pipe and again, water hose ONLY had the hose insulation you can buy 6' for about $2 each.....

Those heated hoses WON'T keep water supply line feeding the heated hose from freezing.

heat tape wrapped around the pipe coming out of ground might help, but I had to improvise at the last minute when we found out we had an Arctic freeze coming through

Just tested our Pirit heated hose down to -6...worked perfectly!

Just returned from a trip to southern Ohio where a colleague is full-timing and the "polar vortex" had temps in the -10 range and a high of 2 during the day. He had to get the 50-footer and said it worked great. He did have to heat tape the CG water stand to keep it going, but no problems with the hose.

I have the pirit heated water hose. 80$ and we have used it down to -8 degrees with no problem. Wrap the hose connection where it connects to the trailer, and where it connects at ground level add heat tape and cover. Should have no problem.

Couple days ago in High Point, NC. Neighbor had one. Temps dropped to 3*. His hose was fine. But stand pipe and faucet froze. He was out of business. Same as me. But my everyday old hose didn't freeze. I removed it and took it in overnight.

DISREGARD - Found you can order a stick-on ULTRA-HEAT 12VDC strip for the bottom of my 35 Gallon fresh water tank...

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How does one freeze proof the fresh water tank on a POPUP. Mine is out in the open sitting up around the large frame and floor. When it gets down to freezing I usually just drain it and blow out the water lines in my off-road POPUP. Then use bottled fresh water I brought along. My 5th wheel is covered on the bottom and has a couple of heat switches for the tanks.

What is the process to keep the POPUP PVC fresh water tank usable when the temps drops below freezing.

I suspect their is a heated cover you put around the tank or maybe wrap some heated lines around the tank???

Roy Ken