Freeze Proof Heated Water Hose,

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.

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

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

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.

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:)

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.





:)
Lynn

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