We’ve had several nights of temperatures well below freezing, and although these have brought clear, beautiful winter days, they’ve also brought frozen pipes.
We run the water supply to the caravan overground from the house. It’s a temporary measure – we don’t want to have to dig the pipes in under the drive as the caravan won’t be here once the house build is complete.
However, this leaves them very exposed to the weather.
Waking up to a cold caravan, sometimes with ice on the inside of the windows is one thing, but switching on the tap to fill the kettle for coffee and realising that there is no water coming through is an altogether different level of morning discomfort.
On a couple of occasions in the last few weeks we’ve woken to this and husband has had to head out in jumper, dressing gown and wellies to try and thaw them out.
Insulation for the pipe has now been ordered and will be installed as soon as the weather permits..
In the meatime we now store large canisters of water in the caravan so that when this happens next, as it will with the worst of the winter months still to get through, we can at least have a mug of hot coffee before heading out to attempt the defrosting process..
Ravencroft Skye 
No… you can’t face the day without a cuppa…
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Totally agree. Contingency measures will be put in place!
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Major priority 🙂
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I’m intrigued. How are you guys defrosting the pipes?
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Hot water from the kettle (from the water supply in the house) and my hairdryer on the long extension lead! Both work
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I agree with Sue – you need your morning cuppa! You might try turning on your faucet at night, just enough so that it trickles. Also, leave bathroom and cabinet doors open so that they can receive more heat. We have to do this on the coldest nights each year and it does keep the pipes from freezing.
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Good advice, thank you 👍
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Oh frozen pipes are no fun.
Here in Canada, you can get a heated wire you wrap around exposed pipes to keep them warm – I don’t know if that is available there. You may also want to keep a your taps open just a little bit over night to keep the water flowing.
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Thank you – we have insulated sleeves now on the pipes so we hope that it will help 👍
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Oh no! You don’t want those pipes to burst. In Maine people leave their faucet running which can help.
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Thanks, we will do that too on cold nights 👍
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Morning coffee is very important! Although we have never experienced frozen pipes, our issues have always been on the hot side. Insulating the pipes is a good idea and so is storing water for the first cup. You are obviously adapting well to humpy life.
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