Coffee anyone ?

[Baymule]

One of those safety $%^%$&^$%^ features that you don't need. It is probably frozen up under the house anyway.... Go get some coffee.

 

[Mother Hen]

I'm already drinking a cup.

 

[Baymule]

 

[Pastor Dave]

Once upon a time, in an earlier chapter of my life, I lived in a house trailer. Not hard to get a little heat to warm the inside, but underneath seemed to freeze. We used the dark gray foam tubes with the slit to push onto all the pipes. Used heat tape too. Best thing to do is keep all the cold air out with whatever skirting you can get. We replaced tin with plywood. Straw bales around the skirting insulated good too. I guess if you don't want to look too redneck, you could put the bales inside the skirting. Better to look redneck than have frozen pipes though. Praying for your pipes, @Mother Hen.

 

[Mother Hen]

There's heat tape around the pipes that go to the bathroom. Was told never had problem with hot water freezing in the kitchen yet earlier this year during the winter the kitchen started freezing.
Here in little bit I've got to dress really warm and go out and use the hair dryer under the trailer.

 

[Sourland]

Good luck, MH. I'll brew another pot for later.

 

[Baymule]

Cardboard or feed sacks on the ground will help insulate YOU from the cold ground.

 

[Pastor Dave]

Definitely! What Bay said.

 

[Mother Hen]

There's a slight issue - that side of the trailer has pieces of tin for skirting and because I was never shown how to get under there I didn't attempt it.

 

[Alaskan]

The first house we had up here was pretty...uh... Alaskan.

When the pipes would freeze up, even with a big forced hot air heater

it could take several days to get every thing thawed back out. I guess we just needed to wait for the temperature to increase.