keep the hot water faucet farthest from the city water intake open at
a small but STEADY stream, not a drip. Not only does it keep the
pipes from freezing, I don't even have the outside hose insulated, and
it never freezes (and I don't need ice cubes:). It's more convenient,
and I figure that running the small stream of hot water at night
probably doesn't cost as much as running a twenty foot heat tape
twenty four/seven. I have a heater in the wet bay, but found out the
hard way that even that isn't enough to keep the hot water supply pipe
located on the other side in the back of the coach from freezing. It
makes a 90 degree angle before it goes to the back of the coach where
the hot water heater is at, and apparently, not enough heat gets back
there even though it's about fifty in the wet bay.
Mike
--- In Diesel-RVs@yahoogroups.com, "spike.kramer" <spike.kramer@...>
wrote:
>
> Glad to hear you have water. If caught again in a deep freeze another
> good thing to do at night before you retire is to turn the water pump
> off, or shut the outside faucet off. Vent off the pressure from the
> water lines, leave a hot and cold water interior faucet open. If
> water freezes it has a place to expand, also water under pressure
> freezes sooner that water at atmospheric pressure.
>
> Spike
>
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