Thread: Slow drip to prevent freezing...

Stupid me ….. and there she blows ….. my drip on my faucet on the well is located right before my secondary outlet….whoops my bad

A lot of us aren't use to these extremely cold temperatures; if this keeps up, we will all need to do more maintenance and upgrades to make our winter prep easier.

I found that pool noodles make great pipe insulators. I try to buy them at the end of season for less than $1.00 a piece. Living in a mobile home isn't the best, but between a couple heat strips, pool noodles and the skirting between the trailer and ground I only drip faucets on extremely cold times. Knock on hard wood no broken pipes yet. Oh yea, they are all PEX pipes too. Like continuous PVC pipe.

I purchased Freeze Miser Outdoor Faucet freeze protectors
They haven’t arrived due to cold snap nation wide. They supposedly allow water to flow a little when faucet is about to freeze solid. Look on UTube. Freeze Miser

One's idea of cold varies with where they live. I'm a son of the south, and frozen pipes, icy roads and fridgid temps (low 20's and lower) are not welcome here. We aren't well prepared for that. Glad you made it thru OK Slab.

Faucents on drip here in central NC too. We've had no frozen pipes yet, in spite of low teen temperatures. It's been too cold for too long. The last time that snow hung around here for a week straight was in 2000 and I'd done my best to forget about that, until this week. This winter storms on consecutive weekends is getting old. Hurry up April!

Jim

Amen on April...And then the Rodent says six more weeks of winter! Well, If you look at the calendar, it is six weeks to the first day of Spring, but dagnabit, that furry big rodent don't need to remind us!!! Come-on warm weather, my bones ache!!!

It was single digit temps and 8" of snow when we left Southern Ohio on Saturday (1/31) to come to Florida, we arrived in central Florida on 2/01. Yep, it's pretty cool down here right now but it's way better than it is up there. We went out yesterday for a walk and although the constant wind made it a little chilly, it was good just to be able to get outside.
We have a heat pump back home, and it does decent down into the mid 20's but at that point our backup propane heat kicks in. I think it's a decent system.

I liked the temps a few years ago when everyone talked about global warming. I didn't feel so much of a need to move south but rather the south was moving to us.
Right now, it looks like we'll start seeing some warmer temps soon down here in Florida and I do sure to welcome them.