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12-09-2006, 16:50

for that to work successfully you have to have a hot return from the
farthest faucet requires another pump but can be done succesfully and
only works when faucet is running

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, Wilhelmus Schreurs
wrote:
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> Ernie:
> What about having your hot and cold water lines together,insulated
in a blanket or something like that, and then circulate the hotwater
throughout the hot water lines? That way you would not require the
heat tape or forced air fans.
>
> Bill 84 FC 35 SB "$quanderlodge"
> Terrace, B.C. Canada
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> ----- Original Message ----
> From: "erniecarpet@..."
> To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Saturday, December 9, 2006 6:04:42 AM
> Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Cold Weather Plumbing
>
> Installing a bypass and injecting antifreeze in all the pipes might
be well
> suited to folks that do not use their coach in the winter. Since we
live
> further south of the deep freeze, we use ours year round. in fact, I
guess i could
> have considered myself a fulltimer as I was in the coach 10 months this
> year.
> What I was trying to get across, and hopefully I can this time. I
would like
> to be able to stay up in Montana longer- that is if I had a good
system in
> place where my water wouldn't freeze if it got to be zero outside for a
> prolonged time.
> Is heat tape the ONLY solution that is on the market?
> It would be nice if there were small heaters- not noisy hair dryers
that
> could operate and send warm air down the side runs of the coach.
> On my coach, the chassis heater lines do not run down the fresh
water runs-
> thus I couldn't use those. By the way, my chassis heaters saved our
butts
> driving home.
>
>
>
> Ernie Ekberg
> 83PT40
> Weatherford, tx
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