Snow!!!!!!

still waiting to get the pipes unfrozen.. THIS SUCKS!

I may have some heat tape. If I do, do you want it?

our prob is getting under there to put it on I think... Buff is about to go rent a big heater..... I dunno what else to do, we have no idea when the park manager will get here with his heater.

I live in a mobile home also and when this happens to me it's usually in the bathroom. The water heater is right outside that room .I've had good luck with using a 1800 watt hair drier. It might take a little while but it's always worked for me.. Good luck

I hear the guy outside!!!! yay!

tonight leave some water running,it's going to be just as cold.

will do!

Think it was a false alarm - he isn't out there

crutch51 wrote:

tonight leave some water running,it's going to be just as cold.

I used to do that at the end of my shift when I worked nights in Bunker Hill. All that it really takes is slow drip. As long as the water is moving . .

nobodysbusiness wrote:

Think it was a false alarm - he isn't out there

Most of the time trailers freeze up right where it comes out of the ground unless it's by the water heater. Aim any small heater that direction and it should get it. A $10 or $15 Walmart special will work. Even if the heat only hits part of the pipe the warmth will spread. I've used heat lamps, paint stripping guns, and hair dryers too. Be careful of melting plastic or starting fires though.

buff went to grand rental and spent 70 bucks on a 100,000 btu kerosene heater. Think that will do the trick.. LOL

If your putting this under your house do not leave unattended because frozen pipes will not be your only problem. If your using it inside make sure there is plenty of ventilation because kerosene heaters produce carbon monoxide..

what do you mean by unattended? we are home - but I am not going to sit out there and watch it. It is outside under the house, and the other end of the trailer is vented.

Should be no serious monoxide issues under a trailer if it's vented. I knew a family that ran one all winter long in their living room, and our grandparents used kerosene lamps and heaters all the time. If you follow directions, use grade 1-K kerosene, and the house is not totally airtight, they are pretty safe even indoors.

I dont like this, it makes me very nervous. I can smell the fumes in the house. Looks like I am going to have to spend even MORE money and get a hotel room, cause my kids need baths.

Give it awhile and if it thaws shut the heater down and you should be fine. Just keep water dripping after that.

nobodysbusiness wrote:

I dont like this, it makes me very nervous. I can smell the fumes in the house. Looks like I am going to have to spend even MORE money and get a hotel room, cause my kids need baths.

With all due respects to my friend Ratzilla, I would not heat with a petroleum product anywhere near my house. Let Buff take care of it, J.

nobodysbusiness wrote:

I dont like this, it makes me very nervous. I can smell the fumes in the house. Looks like I am going to have to spend even MORE money and get a hotel room, cause my kids need baths.

How is it going? If you need anything let me know. I can let you come over here for awhile if you need too so you don't have to spend more money!

Buff says it will be fine, but I just have that motherly gut feeling..

nobodysbusiness wrote:

Buff says it will be fine, but I just have that motherly gut feeling..

You got my number so use if you need too!!!

I may take you up on that - Im giving it until 6 or 7 pm - if nothing is going by then I might have to borrow your bathroom for the kids to take showers.

OK!!!! Just let me know!!!!

Ratzilla wrote:

Should be no serious monoxide issues under a trailer if it's vented. I knew a family that ran one all winter long in their living room, and our grandparents used kerosene lamps and heaters all the time. If you follow directions, use grade 1-K kerosene, and the house is not totally airtight, they are pretty safe even indoors.

When my son was a baby, his dad had a kerosene heater in his trailer house. We were there often and never had a carbon monoxide issue. NB, kerosene stinks. That's probably what you're smelling.


info on kerosene heaters

been running a 100,000 btu forced air heater under the trailer at the water pipes for 3 hrs and no change. Any suggestions?

are you sure you don't have break in a line underground?

just talked to the park guy - said they had a heater under a house all day long and it just broke loose a bit ago. They are out there with a heat gun on the main line into the house.

If your water heater is located outside you house behind a door you might try directing the heat toward it. That seems to be where most freeze-ups happen. If you have already tried this all I can say is be patient and good luck..

it must have been the main valve, they were out there for 10 minutes and we have water, THANK GOD!

Yay!!!

now take long hot bath

Not til the kids get theirs, they didnt get one over the weekend, havent had one since I had them last Thursday night... ewww. (grumble grumble grumble)

thank you to all of you for your advice and concern! Just two more weeks and we dont have to worry about being in a crappy trailer anymore lol.

Pipes freeze in houses too....believe me

Glad you got it. I figured it was the main line. That's where I usually had troubles. Don't worry about the kerosene smell. I've breathed in diesel smoke with very little effect and a kerosene heater is much safer.

crutch51 wrote:

If your water heater is located outside you house behind a door you might try directing the heat toward it. That seems to be where most freeze-ups happen. If you have already tried this all I can say is be patient and good luck..

Why would a water heater be located outside the house?

The water heater on a mobiley home is in a closet like compartment accesible only from a door on the outside of the trailer.

SciFi wrote:

crutch51 wrote:

If your water heater is located outside you house behind a door you might try directing the heat toward it. That seems to be where most freeze-ups happen. If you have already tried this all I can say is be patient and good luck..

Why would a water heater be located outside the house?

Sorry,bad description. There is a compartment on the front of my home which is where my water heater is located behind a vented door. I have to go outside to get to it.

Blackie Kuhn wrote:

The water heater on a mobiley home is in a closet like compartment accesible only from a door on the outside of the trailer.

Thanks for your help.

hey it's 11:33 and it's snowing at my house!!!but I gotta go to bed