Everything good here. 3 running.
Kenneth_2003 said:
Everything was going great for me in Spring... Until our water system management company apparently can't keep the water on to the neighborhood.
Thunderstruck xx said:Kenneth_2003 said:
Everything was going great for me in Spring... Until our water system management company apparently can't keep the water on to the neighborhood.
Too many modes of catastrophic failure with the freeze miser. With these big freezes, the city water supplies get stressed from main breaks to where you'll either have very low water pressure or lose service. When that happens your freeze miser isn't doing jack. I still cover my outdoor faucets and won't trust the freeze miser.
My guess is it stayed open as my pressure dropped and effectively drained the line.Thunderstruck xx said:Kenneth_2003 said:
Everything was going great for me in Spring... Until our water system management company apparently can't keep the water on to the neighborhood.
Too many modes of catastrophic failure with the freeze miser. With these big freezes, the city water supplies get stressed from main breaks to where you'll either have very low water pressure or lose service. When that happens your freeze miser isn't doing jack. I still cover my outdoor faucets and won't trust the freeze miser.
claywakefield06 said:
Other than these couple of reports, everybody's working well through this? I have a set that I wasn't sure if I felt comfortable with the trial run being with temps in teens, so I just wrapped and created wind blocks for the hose bibs. May wait for when the low is upper 20s and risk is minimal…
Gunny456 said:
One of my church friends has a ranch just north of us up here in MO. tried the misers during this event. This morning I am lending him pipe fittings and heat lamps as they have busted pipes. Do maybe they not work as well around low to zero and minus temps?
Muzzleblast said:
Mine have worked brilliantly through this.
Freeze Miser states in their literature that you have 10psi available for them to work.
bhanacik said:
I was thinking of these this morning. What would your yard look like after an extended freeze? It seems that if you can't maintain keeping a bucket underneath to catch the water, the entire yard would be a frozen swamp.
I'm talking like below freezing for over a week
Bregxit said:88Warrior said:bhanacik said:
I was thinking of these this morning. What would your yard look like after an extended freeze? It seems that if you can't maintain keeping a bucket underneath to catch the water, the entire yard would be a frozen swamp.
I'm talking like below freezing for over a week
We've been below freezing here in the Tulsa area since Friday night with lows in the mornings around 0 to slightly negative. I've got a nice little ice mound below the misers about the size of a large fire ant mound so nothing too terrible. I've kept a close watch on the Freeze Misers since the freeze event started and they've been dripping the whole time. This was my first time using them so I was nervous but they've done as advertised under some pretty harsh (for us) conditions..
Mine made what I called ice swords for my kids. No wind and the drips froze all the way up to the freeze miser. I had 3.5 foot long by 3 inch thick icicles from the ground up.
My 3 worked great. The alternative is to drip and continually check that you haven't had a pressure drop requiring you to open the valve more. You get a lot more water on the ground with a drip. Or you could cut the water off to your house for a week. These really are great devices.bhanacik said:
I was thinking of these this morning. What would your yard look like after an extended freeze? It seems that if you can't maintain keeping a bucket underneath to catch the water, the entire yard would be a frozen swamp.
I'm talking like below freezing for over a week
Thunderstruck xx said:
Didn't use freeze misers and simply covered outdoor spigots with those styrofoam caps and kept the house warm. No issues with temps getting down to 13 degrees for 8 hours.