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Frozen Plumbing Pipes

Shovelrick

Shovelrick

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My daughter in Ky new to her house pipes froze night before last, plumber came out yesterday and did whatever he did and charged $297, her fiance bought some type of pipe heater wire that tapes onto supply line coming from pump house 100 feet away from main house and put a propane heater in the pump house that's the size a 1.5 car garage but doesn't have electricity in it, pipes froze again last night and they've been letting the water trickle over night, any ideas how to fix this? they're calling the plumber back out, I told them contact the seller (He's a real nice guy and checks on them now & then) and ask how he dealt with the problem or did he even have this problem? the house has a crawl space under it, the pump house has a main dirt floor with about a 5' X 8-10" room where the pump is located and exposed pipes then they go underground about 100' or more to the house
 
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77cruiser said:
Long term fix would be submersible pump & underground piping.
Heat tape should do the trick if he knows where it's freezing.
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My almost SIL said he wrapped all he could see with heat tape, the well pump is above ground so some pipes are going up from well to it and out and down into the ground going to the main house then up out of the ground since it has a crawl space then I guess runs under the floor? I'm not sure how they plumb house in Northern regions but here it's strapped to the bottom of floor joist
 
Shovelrick said:
My almost SIL said he wrapped all he could see with heat tape, the well pump is above ground so some pipes are going up from well to it and out and down into the ground going to the main house then up out of the ground since it has a crawl space then I guess runs under the floor? I'm not sure how they plumb house in Northern regions but here it's strapped to the bottom of floor joist
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I have a basement & my line is under the floor & 6 ft. underground to the well.
 
I haven't heard anything back yet, hoping they contact the old owner to see what he says, plumber will be able to retire real quick if they call him everyday this winter lol
 
He’s wrapping more of the pipes, finally called via face time he didn’t have much wrapped and wrapping now
 

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Last winter at xmas, it got down close to zero up there. So I can't believe this hasn't been freezing in the past.
I wonder if the previous owner removed the insulation (while doing a repair?) and forgot to reinstall it ?
 
I have never had a pipe freezing issue. My pump well head is under one of those fake rocks and it is stuffed with insulation, the pump itself is 500' down. The pipe to the house is 18" underground and goes into our basement (basements are unusual around here).
Can she put a kerosene heater in that building and leave it trickling at a faucet inside should fix the problem.
 
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I have never had a pipe freezing issue. My pump well head is under one of those fake rocks and it is stuffed with insulation, the pump itself is 500' down. The pipe to the house is 18" underground and goes into our basement (basements are unusual around here).
Can she put a kerosene heater in that building and leave it trickling at a faucet inside should fix the problem.
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I bet code says anything outside and above ground (unheated area) has to have heat tape and insulation
 
The make a heat tape with thermostat built in. Temp drops the heat tape turns itself on, when it warms back up turns itself off.

My daughter in Northern Tenn is getting 8" of snow today/tonight. Last time she saw snow was when she was 5 and we visited Grandma and Grandpa in 2005.
 
He insulated and sent this pic, I said insulate more till you can’t see any bare pipe, he’s going to go buy more adhesive foam wrap, the heat tape is under the house and he figured out how to turn the power on out there lol
 

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Still no running water, old owner only owned for 8 months and never lived in the house, bought it for the 30 farming acres
 
kmakar said:
The make a heat tape with thermostat built in. Temp drops the heat tape turns itself on, when it warms back up turns itself off.

My daughter in Northern Tenn is getting 8" of snow today/tonight. Last time she saw snow was when she was 5 and we visited Grandma and Grandpa in 2005.
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We have 4" to 5" snow and it was 10 degrees last night and tonight. Brrrrr
 
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