Freeze Proof Heated Water Hose,
Has anyone here used one. How well do they work? At what Temperature do they fail?
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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
