I know this is an old video but thank you so much for posting your technique as I am constantly dealing with frozen water lines that a hair dryer usually solves but this time the freeze is underground as we didn't get much snow in Maine this year and apparently the heat tape did not keep up. I plan on trying this tomorrow. Again, thank you for the great idea.
It works great! Thanks for watching. I froze this year no snow so I bought heat-line which runs inside the water line and put it underground to the pitless adapter no issues anymore.
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT I was actually looking at one of those kits on Amazon last night and thought that was a great idea. I tried your technique today and it worked like a charm!
@@jbourque1985 if you buy the inline kit make sure to get all the way to the pitless adapter I literally froze up by the adapter, put hot water on it from above 2 pots and it started working, I think I’m only a inch away from the adapter and that literally made it freeze again but simple fix. Now I’ll cut my hose 1 inch shorter and reattach the compression fitting.
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT good to know! My old solution with heat tape used to have the same issue And would freeze right where the pipe went into the house as the heat tape ended 2 in before that. So outside with a hair dryer and in about 10 minutes i could have it going again.
My vacation house in Hokkaido got similar problem last winter. I have called the water bureau people to come and help. But they can’t fix it, what they said is the path between water meter and the water main switch of my house seems frozen(underground). I will go again next month a bit before the winter comes and see if it still works. Thanks for a great video.
Same thing happened to me this morning. I checked the ohms on my well pump and both the winding ohms were steady 8 ohms and 220 volt was good . I have to have ice in the line. I'm going to let the sunlight do it's job and later I'll turn it on again...
@@chantalgladu1603 let me know how it goes, get the water piping hot and it works fast. Use a glove to push hard as it melts the ice at the problem area underneath.
I know this is an old video but thank you so much for posting your technique as I am constantly dealing with frozen water lines that a hair dryer usually solves but this time the freeze is underground as we didn't get much snow in Maine this year and apparently the heat tape did not keep up. I plan on trying this tomorrow. Again, thank you for the great idea.
It works great! Thanks for watching. I froze this year no snow so I bought heat-line which runs inside the water line and put it underground to the pitless adapter no issues anymore.
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT I was actually looking at one of those kits on Amazon last night and thought that was a great idea. I tried your technique today and it worked like a charm!
@@jbourque1985 just get a good brand and not a knock off. Heat-line I bought it’s expensive but works great so far.
@@jbourque1985 if you buy the inline kit make sure to get all the way to the pitless adapter I literally froze up by the adapter, put hot water on it from above 2 pots and it started working, I think I’m only a inch away from the adapter and that literally made it freeze again but simple fix. Now I’ll cut my hose 1 inch shorter and reattach the compression fitting.
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT good to know! My old solution with heat tape used to have the same issue And would freeze right where the pipe went into the house as the heat tape ended 2 in before that. So outside with a hair dryer and in about 10 minutes i could have it going again.
Thank you for posting this technique!!!!!
You are so welcome!
Good job figuring out the problem and how to fix it.
Thanks! Will have a really nice walleye video soon, with my new Aqua vu camera.
Nice video, good job Bob!
Thanks :)
Thank you. That was fascinating.
Thanks for watching!
thank you sooo much I have water now in Winter , Wi worked great
Glad you now have water as it’s such a good method. Enjoy. I’m
From Stratford wi originally :)
My vacation house in Hokkaido got similar problem last winter. I have called the water bureau people to come and help. But they can’t fix it, what they said is the path between water meter and the water main switch of my house seems frozen(underground). I will go again next month a bit before the winter comes and see if it still works. Thanks for a great video.
You’re welcome, I just had to put snow under my camper where the ground was exposed and it’s fixed long term now.
I think you need to post a video on how you managed to snag a vacation home in Hokkaido. Are you a native?
@@12ealDealOfficial I’m in savant lake, the guy replying to me is from there.
Good work!
Glad you liked the video hope it worked out good for you!
Excellent idea thanks
Sucks if you freeze up but it’s a fast and easy fix, thanks for watching.
Same thing happened to me this morning. I checked the ohms on my well pump and both the winding ohms were steady 8 ohms and 220 volt was good . I have to have ice in the line.
I'm going to let the sunlight do it's job and later I'll turn it on again...
If not this method will work.
How long from start to finish did it take you to get through the frozen line?
Recycled the water three times
Depends how much is frozen but I was moving pretty quick.
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT thank you trying out your technique
@@TRAPPERSPOINTCAMPRESORT our water comes from the lake and pipe froze between house and lake somewhere.
@@chantalgladu1603 let me know how it goes, get the water piping hot and it works fast. Use a glove to push hard as it melts the ice at the problem area underneath.
Space heater work??
The frozen part was 4 feet under ground. No a space heater wouldn’t fix an ungrounded frozen line. Wish it was that simple
Village pump????
Bilge pump for pumping out boats, used it to recycle the hot down to the ice in the pipe
That water sure looks dirty.
Yup all water lines have crud in them and if you stir it up with lots of pressure it will show up :(