Service pitch water in winter
How do you stop your fresh water pipe from the tap into the caravan/motor-home from freezing when on a full service pitch in winter.? What do you use to wrap the pipes. And do you wrap the aqua roll in something and put something underneath it. All help appreciated.
Thanks
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I would say that some pretty good pipe insulation would be required.
We have found that, on really cold nights, no amount of insulation has seemed to work and bringing the blue pipe / filter inside is the only way.
I would tend to say that a mains water connection would be more trouble than it's worth in very cold conditions.
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We wrap the aqua roll in an old high viz jacket, with caravan connector up the sleeve. However, bring the connector in at night, along with a 10 lt water container. As Ian says there is little you can do about the hose to the tap, it is just to much to try and insulate. After one experience where it took us over two hours to sort the hoses out, when leaving on a cold frosty morning from a service pitch. Now if there is a risk of this, I detackle the day before and go back onto the standard aqua roll / wastemaster for the last night. Much quicker to sort out.
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Brian, you mention 'motorhome' in your OP....
if you have a MH, just fill the fresh tank and then roll up your hose and put it away inside the van, only getting out if you need to top up.
that way, youll never have a frozen pipe and it wont be needed vary often.....certainly no need to keep it connected in the way caravanners do to keep an aquaroll topped up.
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With our previous van which had under slung fresh and waste tanks we only ever had problems when on one occasion the outside temperature went below -10C. We were toasty warm inside mind, just had to brave the walk to the pub and a roaring fire mind. Loved it!
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Turn the fresh water tap to closed, and drain all the water out of your blue pipe,because trying to lag the pipe will be a waist of time. On chemical plants they lag outside water pipes with electric heated tracer lines. But for caravans just go back to basics.
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We've just had this situation on the CL we were on over Christmas / New Year. Although the aquaroll has an insulated jacket and base to stand on and was fine, the blue water pipe froze overnight. In anticipation of the frost, I disconnected the blue pipe - just it case it froze and split - and ran off the inboard tank.
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This is a subject close to my heart as we have a winter seasonal pitch in Aviemore every year! I have developed a system for the Aquaroll, whereby I have an aquarium heater lying in at the bottom of the aquaroll connected to a float switch fitted on to the side cap. I also have a piece of heat trace wrapped along the hose length of the whale pump. This all kick in at less than 2 degrees. When the pump brings water in, the heater stays on until the aquaroll level falls below the level of the side cap, at which point the float switch cuts the heater off. It hasn't failed us yet and it has worked at -12 degrees! For the summer, all I have to do is change the side cap for an ordinary one.
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