Official Post Padding Thread

Musket Man

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Maybe my magazine will come tomorrow since I looked at the mrs online today lol. I read your story in that thread and ill look for the pic in the mag! I thought finishing an 80% lower would be a fun project! Got the jig on sale for $50, still need to get a lower to finish though. I already got a stripped lower and a partially assembled lower sitting here waiting for back ordered parts and money to finish them. lol
 
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5 degrees. bathroom sink froze, toilet froze, shower froze. Even got a space heater running under my mobile home and still all froze. Oh well, got plenty of deer meat, potatoes, and fire wood, what more could I want!!
 
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Sounds like its pretty warm over here big sky! Heater got the pipes thawed but the pipes for the shower busted again so Im not sure if its better or worse. They are the only pipes that ever freeze and I have put pipe wrap, extra insulation, more insulation, everything I can think of short of heat tape which I thought about last time but everywhere was sold out of it. These pipes have 5x the insulation of any other pipes and yet they are the only ones that ever freeze.
 
marcusvdk

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It has been much warmer over here in michigan either. it was around 7 yesterday windchills around -5. still warmer then a few days ago when it was -10 and -30 windchill. MM is your shower that freezes on a outside wall facing the main wind direction? or an uninsulated basement or crawl space under it? You would think with all that insulation around the pipe that it wouldn't freeze.
 
Musket Man

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I have a single wide mobile home. It always freezes in the floor going to the shower and where it freezes is atleast a foot in from the wall and its always within the same 3 foot section. The first time it froze after I got the trailer there wasnt any insulation at all there (whoever changed it from a tub to a shower wasnt to bright). Every time it has froze I have added more insulation and it still freezes every time we get a few days of below 0 temps. The real problem is I put this trailer in here about 5 years ago in a hurry to get it done before winter and 'temporarily nailed tin around it to close it off and the same tin is still there, so I really need to redo the skirt right. Just dont make sense why it freezes when nothing else does. I got it fixed, Im just thawing out before I go back out and put the insulation back in.
 
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Yeah thats crazy. Who doesn't put insulation around it after converting it to a shower. It really weird that its only that pipe that is freezing and none of the others are with all the insulation you have on it. Hope you have good luck figuring something out to fix it. Got to get frustrating constantly fixing that.
 
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It gets frustrating cuz every time I put it back and figure I got it forsure this time and it happens again. I am getting good at fixing it though. lol. really the shower should be turned around so the plumbing was toward the inside of the trailer instead of the outer wall. I have had other pipes freeze to where they wouldnt run but didnt freeze hard enough to brake them.
 
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I bet if this has been happening a lot you have gotten really good at fixing it. lol. hopefully its the last time for this winter with only about 2 months to go before it starts warming up
 
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I think this is the 4th time. I should have stuck a heater under there but didnt think it would get quite so cold. Put the heater under it after the first night of getting to 0 but it was a little late.
 
Eberle

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Buy some heat trace, cut insulation off pipe, wrap the heat trace around pipe & zip tie it. Then wrap insulation around it & run a extention cord to it. Just plug it up as needed.
 
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I thought about doing something like that but seems like every time it has trouble I cant find heat tape to save my life so I put it back together with more insulation and hope for the best. I used some barn roof insulation this time. I think I might have had the insulation compressed to much with plywood under it to hold it up before. Least that was about all I could come up with.
 
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A while back I was asking if there was a way to bring up posts from the last 24 hours and I have figured it out. If you log out and click on todays posts it will bring them up, then open posts in a new tab or window and log back in.
 
Don K

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Ah yes cleared the snow off the driveway again and we now have had over 60 inches this year. 3rd snowiest year on record and a ways to go..........
 
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