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PaisleyDale
Dec 14, 2016Explorer
I lived in a 5th wheel for five cold winter with temps getting down to zero F. My water pipes froze inside several times without ever a brake.
I had heat tape attached to a hard brown water hose and covered it with 2" foam pipe insulation this heat tape also covered the exposed hose bib.
I covered the valves for both the black and grey tanks and the exposed pipes before the valves with tin foil then heat tape. This kept my valves working all winter.
I always had my grey valve open and connected to the slinky and the slinky rested in an elevated cradle. I never had a problem with this system.
I had heat tape attached to a hard brown water hose and covered it with 2" foam pipe insulation this heat tape also covered the exposed hose bib.
I covered the valves for both the black and grey tanks and the exposed pipes before the valves with tin foil then heat tape. This kept my valves working all winter.
I always had my grey valve open and connected to the slinky and the slinky rested in an elevated cradle. I never had a problem with this system.
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