Hello,
I live in northern Alaska and sometimes during extreme cold spells the vent pipe for the plumbing in homes will free shut. Usually all the needs to be done is to crawl up on the roof and dump boiling water back down the vent to thaw it out. I have a owner that has just built a large cathedral style home with steep pitched roofs. He wants to be able to heat trace the vent so he will not have to try and crawl up on the roof if it freezes shut. Does anybody have any ideas? Could you drill a hole in the vent pipe inside the attic and insert an capillary tube type heat probe up the pipe? EPD Breaker of course, but does anybody have any other ideas or solutions? You would need to have heat trace in both the attic portion and also the portion that is above the roof line I would think.
Thanks for the help
I live in northern Alaska and sometimes during extreme cold spells the vent pipe for the plumbing in homes will free shut. Usually all the needs to be done is to crawl up on the roof and dump boiling water back down the vent to thaw it out. I have a owner that has just built a large cathedral style home with steep pitched roofs. He wants to be able to heat trace the vent so he will not have to try and crawl up on the roof if it freezes shut. Does anybody have any ideas? Could you drill a hole in the vent pipe inside the attic and insert an capillary tube type heat probe up the pipe? EPD Breaker of course, but does anybody have any other ideas or solutions? You would need to have heat trace in both the attic portion and also the portion that is above the roof line I would think.
Thanks for the help