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Re: We are getting so much rain I sprung a leak in the roof on both shops. STOP already LOL 

By: micro in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (1)
Thu, 06 Feb 20 7:54 PM | 29 view(s)
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This is where a smaller portable generator comes in then with plenty of gasoline stored to spare.
Wrap those pipes with heat tape and plug in the heat tape to an outlet powered by the small generator. It does not take much wattagefor the heattape. That is what I would do iffen I wuz you .....


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Re: We are getting so much rain I sprung a leak in the roof on both shops. STOP already LOL
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Thu, 06 Feb 20 7:37 PM 		Msg. 51104 of 62138

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Re: "if you don't have a generator hookup at your current place and your water pipes are exposed, wrap them in pipe insulation so the cold air does not get to them."No, they're not exposed until they get inside my garage. The garage doesn't get as cold as the outdoors, but it does get cold. I think insulation could protect them for a couple or three days of subzero weather, but my concern is about what will happen in a lengthier power outage. Such things do happen. The 2012 derecho that hit us in Virginia cost us our power for a week (and we were more fortunate than many.) A major blizzard could have a similar result up here.

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