If you’ve got drain pipes that aren’t completely protected from frost by sufficient soil, you may have a huge problem waiting to happen. If that sewage line freezes up, it can be well into spring before it defrosts naturally. Click above to watch how I installed two kinds of heating cables to freeze-proof an exposed drain line on a soil-poor Canadian cottage country building site.
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