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When the guy comes to thaw it I think he concentrates the heat gun on the trap.

I’ve looked at different heat tapes and they all say for water carrying or water supply pipes

No but it was intended to just be a summer place.

Upstate NY. -10 degrees. Idk what the pipe is made of. I think it looks like white plastic.

My house doesn’t have a foundation- just up on blocks- and when it gets below zero out my tubbtrap freezes. I’ve put antifreeze down the drain but it doesn’t help. It’s also wrapped with fiberglass insulation. Can heat tape be put on it?

A guy put heat tape on some water pipes and wrapped spirals of it around a section of pex pipe that doesn’t have any water in it. Will that melt the pipe?

When I flush my toilet, all the water goes down the drain as it should. But solid waste does not; it takes 2 or 3 flushes for that to go down. (and no- there has been no change in my solid waste!) A plumber checked my toilet and said that he didn't notice anything wrong with it, but there...

And this will be enough to keep it from freezing? It doesn't need some source of heat?

My tub trap is under the floor in an extremely shallow, unheated crawl space. My house is up on peers and the crawl space floor is dirt with the skirting of the house coming down to the ground. It is too shallow for anyone to get in there and insulate the skirting. I want to try to live in the...

It does have skirting around it. The house is so low to the ground that there is no way to access much of the crawl space- so it would be impossible to completely insulate it. One plumber told me that as long as there is no draft on it, the trap won't freeze; but several others have said that...

My house in northern New York state was originally built as a cabin for summer use but I have since added insulation and I am hoping to live in it year-round. The biggest issue is the water– Right now all my pipes are just set up for summer use. My house is up on cinderblocks – it does not have...