Cold Weather Plumbing

[Terry Neal]

Hi Stephen,

How are you? Staying warm up North I hope.

How would a recirculating pump on the hot water line (at the end)
pumping the hot water back to the water heater itself work? I'm
thinking another Groco 12 volt pump with a switch to turn it on/off when
needed. Like the ones used in residential construction so that you have
instant hot water at all faucets all the time? I think that would be a
good solution. My system needs to be usable down to -20 or -30 & on
shore power or generator. With enough insulation & keeping the water
moving, that may be the answer?

Terry Neal
Bozeman, MT
82PT40
74FC34



Stephen Birtles wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- 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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> >
> >
> >
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