drdit92
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2025 Montana 3532. Wintering in Midwest. It has tank heaters and I've got a pirit heated hose. Everything was fine until Saturday when the bottom dropped out of the temps. I've got a 96 gallon propane tank; no problem, I thought. I was wrong.
Saturday night, no water. It's like 5F and dropping. Turn up thermostat. Tried to use water pump as I had fresh tank about half full. It doesn't even make a noise when I turned it on.
Next day high is 7. I figured something was frozen, so put an Extreme bilge heater on the utility side of basement. Hours later, nothing. Monday, had to work but it's a balmy 20. More heat, nothing. The park faucet is below ground. It's running fine.
Next, decided to test the hose. Maybe part of it lost heat and froze? Nope! It sprayed me down as well as next door neighbors. Initial spray was nice and warm too. I then unfastened the screws to the panel that separates the basement from utility Bay, thinking maybe not enough warm air getting to that area. Put the bilge heater pumping warm air directly on water pump and the PEX fittings.
No water. I turned water pump on so many times hoping it would work that I finally blew the 10 amp fuse. It's never made a sound and now light on panel doesn't come on. I don't have the right fuse size so no go for now.
Tonight I decided to change the water filter thinking maybe it was the issue. Warm water all over me as I unscrewed it. New filter in, reattached, turned city water back on. No water even going into the filter housing.
It acts like something is blocking the water from the hose into the city water inlet, but there's nothing on the screen. My limited view behind the panel (due to darkness) shows no leaks or obvious damage to any of the PEX lines and they are all warm too touch thanks to the bilge heater. It's also now above freezing, 38F at 10:30 so I'm very sure nothing is frozen, if it ever was.
Is there something behind the city water inlet that could have failed and won't let any water in? I'm seriously at a loss here. Thanks for any advice.
Saturday night, no water. It's like 5F and dropping. Turn up thermostat. Tried to use water pump as I had fresh tank about half full. It doesn't even make a noise when I turned it on.
Next day high is 7. I figured something was frozen, so put an Extreme bilge heater on the utility side of basement. Hours later, nothing. Monday, had to work but it's a balmy 20. More heat, nothing. The park faucet is below ground. It's running fine.
Next, decided to test the hose. Maybe part of it lost heat and froze? Nope! It sprayed me down as well as next door neighbors. Initial spray was nice and warm too. I then unfastened the screws to the panel that separates the basement from utility Bay, thinking maybe not enough warm air getting to that area. Put the bilge heater pumping warm air directly on water pump and the PEX fittings.
No water. I turned water pump on so many times hoping it would work that I finally blew the 10 amp fuse. It's never made a sound and now light on panel doesn't come on. I don't have the right fuse size so no go for now.
Tonight I decided to change the water filter thinking maybe it was the issue. Warm water all over me as I unscrewed it. New filter in, reattached, turned city water back on. No water even going into the filter housing.
It acts like something is blocking the water from the hose into the city water inlet, but there's nothing on the screen. My limited view behind the panel (due to darkness) shows no leaks or obvious damage to any of the PEX lines and they are all warm too touch thanks to the bilge heater. It's also now above freezing, 38F at 10:30 so I'm very sure nothing is frozen, if it ever was.
Is there something behind the city water inlet that could have failed and won't let any water in? I'm seriously at a loss here. Thanks for any advice.
