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JohnnyO
Reviewed in the United States on February 27, 2025
I have a camper and I have a heated hose so that I can get water into the camper. The heated hose works great except I can’t seem to keep the hose bib/faucet from freezing. I have tried the pipe foam and blankets, but the hose faucet keeps freezing. I found this online and it works perfectly. It was exactly what I needed. I needed a short length of heated tape to cover the hose bib/faucet to keep it from freezing.This was easy to install and should be easy to takeoff in the spring time. This is a great value and keeps the faucet from freezing so that I can continue to get water into my camper without having to try to wrap it in pipe insulation or blankets.
Customer
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2025
Like many others this winter, I had my outside pipe from my well freeze. Fortunately, I watched the technician's very technical repair process the last time this happened a few years back - he hopped down into the well pit and unfroze it with a hair dryer - I'm joking (about the very technical part), but it's still no fun having to do this in the sub-zero temperatures. I had honestly never heard of heat tape, but was telling a friend about my frozen pipe, and he suggested I put some heat tape on it, so here I am - I should mention the other fix the repairman told me was to leave a shop light on down in the pit - the bulb will generate just enough heat to keep things from freezing - this also works, but is easy to forget to do (which I did) - the automatic feature of this heat tape (kicks on at 41°F) is great - saves on electricity. The only downside, as others have mentioned, is this stuff is stiff - very difficult to work with, but not impossible. It's worth the effort to have a semi-permanent solution to a frozen well pipe. Highly recommended.
Susan
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2025
We had an unusual freeze coming and I wanted to be prepared. I needed to wrap a small section of 1” pipe coming out of the ground with this. It’s nice and heavy duty, but it’s almost too heavy and stiff to get it wrapped around a small diameter pipe. It would have been easier if I would have secured it in line with the pipe, and used the included tape. If you want to wrap it, it’s better suited for larger pipes. The 3 little zip ties that it came with is pretty worthless. Our freeze came and went without any frozen pipes.
s
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
This arrived just in time for us to wrap our outdoor pipes before THE snow storm. I pulled off all the old insulation, stuck ice on the thermostat to warm up the cable a but, then wrapped it along the pipes. Because of its stiffness (watching YouTube videos, they all seem to be; you want these cables to be very durable since they're used outdoors in extreme conditions), it took 2 people and quite a bit of hand strength and multiple attempts. The instructions stress the importance of not overlapping the cable over itself, but I tried hard not to let it touch against itself either (I was told that that's ok, however).The clear plug that has a little light when you plug it in is really useful in putting your (my) mind at ease that the cable is working, especially since we put insulation on top of the heating cable, completely covering the cable and the pipes. Since another reviewer mentioned GFCI, I went ahead and wrapped the plug (plugged into the extension cord) with clear plastic and taped down the sides, allowing the light to still shine through, but protecting the plug connection from the freezing rain and sleet. I also placed the plug on something that kept it several inches off the ground (to keep it from sitting in a pool of precipitation). Maybe I went overboard.Bottom line: this heating cable works great, and the thermostat and light in the plug are helpful features.
ZimFromIrk
Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2025
We have a complicated hose bib outside our kitchen window and during the last big hard freeze (where the temps stayed below freezing even during the day), our kitchen sink froze up. Fortunately, no damage was done but lesson learned: I sealed the air gap around the hose bib where the mortar had come out, and for this winter, wrapped the bib and attached pipes that go to a pool autofill with extra insulation. Then I saw this product and figured I'd add it on for extra insurance, since there is a GFCI electrical outlet right above the bib.I tested the heat tape inside, per the instructions and found it worked and gets warm but not hot which is what I hoped for as I don't want to damage any insulation it touches. I applied it yesterday -- the tape is quite stiff and it was already near 32 degrees outside, so I wasn't able to do a great job because of the cold. However, I attached the sensor to the cold water pipe with the supplied wire ties, and then wrapped the whole thing with sticky foil-lined insulating tape. I did my best to make sure the heated wire touches the other exposed pipes, including a PVC pipe leading to the autofill that burst the the last time when it was inexplicably uninsulated by the installer.Tonight, we dropped to 22 degrees and early in the morning, I went out to check the spigots. Sure enough, the tape was warm (not hot) and the faucet was not frozen up, but ran just fine.When the weather improves, I'm going to attach this permanently to the faucet and plastic pipe and then hopefully I won't have to worry about this faucet freezing up.A plus is the light in the electrical plug that shows it has power. My GFCI was tripped (nothing is normally plugged into it) and I wouldn't have known the heat tape didn't have power without the light.The only criticism I have is that the heat tape is quite stiff and a bit difficult to work with. You'll probably want some additiona wire ties to help hold it in place, and I am not sure I can wrap it tightly enough around a single outdoor faucet -- but it will wrap fine around a pipe.With that caveat, I'm very comfortable in recommending this.
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