Scuba1:

It could have been worse. Check out the Youtube video of one Woman having a total meltdown , when her 35 year old engine with 14,000 hours breaks down.

Sailing The Far Side

A tip about the PEX fittings. There are PEX brand, and there are aftermarket brands that are cheaper than PEX. They are very prone to failure......not even freezing temps. Not saying PEX brand hasn't failed, but all fittings used aren't PEX brand fittings. Just sayin......beware of aftermarket stuff.

I'll bet the floors in a houseboat in East Tennessee are alot warmer than camper floors are in Interior Alaska during the winter. Glad I won't be doing that again.

Neither will Timothy....

So I went and bought 15 foot of that heat cable tape stuff. I did not even know such a thing existed. Its installed under the boat minus 6 inches that the thing was to short but I can defrost that with a hot air blower and then insulate the carp out of it with spray foam and dump half a yard of dirt over it then . Plugged the cable thing in .............

And now we wait

What a steady hand to hold the phone before having had even a drop of allohole

Yes Heat tape with an indicator light

I just did that 330... thanks to the folks on here pointing me in that direction. Skated with the truck to ACE hardware and back to get a length of it and put it under the boat.

dont forget to check the light when cold temps are predicted. i never got more than a couple years out of one.

its not unheard of for them to start a fire either

Well a fire would certainly defrost that pipe

To funny,,,,, Germans always were sunglasses so “they” can not see the eyes,,,, lol

I think it's karma rubbing your nose in it for showing off those mushrooms and laughing at our cold snowy weather.

Scuba, just viewed your return trip video from the spring. " IF" that roadway is essential to your property, I "Highly" recommend lots of Water Bars............... to keep and SAVE the road way . Nip it in the Bud, Do not put it OFF.......... If it comes alot of H2O, all could be LOST............. Mother Nature can be Wicked. There is lots of INFO out there.... I speak with 20 + yrs. of Soil & Water Conservation conversation... Now tired and Retired . Tut , PS I also live a DRY cabin life style .

I have pretty light sensitive eyes and wear them most every day. I took them off when I was doing heat tape thing under the boat though. On the upside, I don't use a lot of batteries for my flashlights

There is also a thermostat, available, for the heat cables. It comes on just above freezing and shuts off when the temperature goes back up. You can tape it to your pipe So it senses the pipe temperature.. Used them in my barn , at water bowls , for cattle. It is usually made by the heat tape people.. old243

Thats what I bought and installed old243. Heat tape with thermostat on it that gets taped to the pipe

What cohunt said. Heat tape is your friend.

Yay.... as of 0700 we have water .... no bust pipes it was still 16F out when the water pipe finally freed up with night temps around 10F

You are a true mountain man now ! Like the sunglasses.

I too have to have them for the glare from snow and sun days is too much.

I hope your water troubles clear up soon. I have been there done that too.

Five feet in the valleys now and below 0 much of the time these days. Cant complain. Not after last summer !

Nice place you have there too.

I thought Tennessee was Full of Poisonous Snakes and No see ums
Even in January....I didn't realize you even got snow there.