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western MN | My boss is helping a friend who had a main water line from his well, and only a few feet of soil to the bedrock. He found out about a product that his Canadian friend/resort owner uses. It is a heat tape that is installed inside of the water line. It is CSA listed, which is just as good, and accepted as UL listed here in the states.
https://heatline.com/product/retro-line/
They are putting it in next week.
I am an electrician as well as farmer. One of my first jobs in the trade, I was trenching power to a new gain bin, and the farmer said we had to hand dig in a certain area, because his sewage line was shallow. We were all confused, because in MN all sewage lines are minimum 6' deep. This guy's sewage line was only like 2' deep, but he had 2 layers of that rigid pink foam board (xps) about 1' wide over the top of it. He told us in the 20 years he lived there, he never had a problem with his sewage line freezing up, and it even went under his driveway, where the frost typically penetrates deeper, as it gets cleared of snow and isn't insulated by the snow. | |
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Seasonal water lines and frost
