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[Romany]

I was looking for materials to connect mains water to my mobile home and came across useful info from the eHow website including how to 'winterise' a mobile home. In view of HMOTW's 'frozen everything' last winter I thought it would be good to share. Some (if not all) is written for the US but the diy tips are probably universal.

http://www.ehow.com/...e-plumbing.html

There are links to other useful tips and not just for plumbing.

Apologies if anyone already knows all this!

Romany

[scotelf]

I was looking for materials to connect mains water to my mobile home and came across useful info from the eHow website including how to 'winterise' a mobile home. In view of HMOTW's 'frozen everything' last winter I thought it would be good to share. Some (if not all) is written for the US but the diy tips are probably universal.

http://www.ehow.com/...e-plumbing.html

There are links to other useful tips and not just for plumbing.

Apologies if anyone already knows all this!

Romany

Thanks for the link Romany, some useful information there.

[shepie]

I think for any of us who are or are thinking of going down the F2F route in a caravan etc you should fit a heat trace wire and frost stat to your water supply .

Que HMOTW brrr

[happymanoftheworld]

I think for any of us who are or are thinking of going down the F2F route in a caravan etc you should fit a heat trace wire and frost stat to your water supply .

Que HMOTW brrr

First - ROMANY - thanks for that - will look properly when back in Scotland - just finished my musician work in Stockport - at least the club was warm..... at home my gas has now been frozen for three days - my water for five!!!! BUT thank God I installed the borehole - just decouple and fill water bottles - best £3.5k ever spent!!!

Second - Shepie - What on earth is a heat trace wire?????

[shepie]

Hi happy

You can put a wire along your water pipes that is connected to a frost stat so when the temp drops below say 5 degrees it turns on the electric and the heat trace wire heats up and stops your water pipes freezing up .

Thats the theory behind it , i saw one in a poly tunnel in wales used for sheep years ago ..

May work ? shepie

[KChally]

Hi Shepie,

Could you tell me how would I get one of these, or do i have to make one up myself? We have been frozen up for a couple of days and hubby has spent most of today trying to get us back on line - doing loads of washing etc before we freeze up again.

Thanks
KChally

[Romany]

Hi Shepie,

Could you tell me how would I get one of these, or do i have to make one up myself? We have been frozen up for a couple of days and hubby has spent most of today trying to get us back on line - doing loads of washing etc before we freeze up again.

Thanks
KChally

Hi KChally, the eHow website has information on this, simply type 'heat trace' in the search box of the eHow website... hope this helps
Romany

[shepie]

Hi Kchally

As Romany says it`s there on the ehow site and any electrical wholesalers on your local retail park will have the bits and info on how to set it up , if you need more info i will try and find out.

There are several grades of tubular pipe lagging ,it`s not expensive from a builders merchant or plumb centre just buy the thickest gauge in the rubber one, and use plastic barrier pipe , if you put a 15 mm polypipe pipe in a 3/4 " blue one and lagg that it will work well against the cold and won`t split so easy , you could also run the heat trace wire on the 15 mm pipe before you slide it in the blue pipe, try to measure your pipe run and get a long pipe with no joins as they will cause cold spots and also split easier than the pipe alone .