Our well pump motor froze overnight. Our first "country" troubleshooting problem. Heh. We put a light bulb shining right onto the motor and put a small space heater in the well house. That unfroze the motor in about 15 minutes, so we have water again. Going to have to beef up the insulation (of which the previous owners left a sufficient supply) and put a small heat lamp on a timer out there.
Better news – it got damn cold last night and the pipes were nowhere near frozen. The pipes going to and from the well pump were actually a little warmer than ambient temperature. I like knowing that.
In a separate problem, our tankless water heater also seems to be frozen. It’s mounted to the side of the house. I don’t know how much insulation there is inside the housing, but I imagine it’s not much if any because the unit itself is fairly small. I’m going to have to come up with a way to keep it from freezing up.
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