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stuart howes

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will my butts freeze
« on: January 17, 2006, 08:43:41 pm »
 ;DCan any of you wfp boys help?
i have just got my new water butts that are in my garden i have 3 x375ltr all joined together the thing is.are they going to freeze in the cold nights   do you think i need to build some sort of shed around them? and put insulation around them, plus they are about 4 mtr away from my outside tap,do you think i should have my ro di next to my tap and a hose into my water butts or do i put a pipe from the tap 4 mtr long to the filters and then straight into my water butts  and do i have to protect the filters from the frost or are they all ok out in the open air and rain    thanks   please reply soon as i want to start doing this wednesday ;D
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Morph

Re: will my butts freeze
« Reply #1 on: January 17, 2006, 08:50:10 pm »
Yes
Yes
Yes
Doesn't make much difference
Yes
NO
Get on with it, that is tomorrow.  It is going to rain
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stevef

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Re: will my butts freeze
« Reply #2 on: January 17, 2006, 09:21:09 pm »
Stuart
Protect everything you can from freezing up especially your RO
which if it feezes up the ice will expand and break the housings.
Even after a realy cold night you will still get sunny dry day
when you can work. But only if you have water!
Steve
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craig jwc

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Re: will my butts freeze
« Reply #3 on: January 17, 2006, 11:43:01 pm »
Stuart

As Steve said protect everything you can.

My waterbutt sits outside with an insulation jacket on and all the pipes have pipe insulation on them. My RO i have put in a cupboard outside but it is wrapped in an old cot blanket.

Have had a few nights where it has frozen but never had a problem with any of my kit so far.

Craig
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