Your opinion?

We have a short term renter who didn't let the water run enough at her mobile Fri night

So Sunday was spent mostly worrying over that & connecting with the plumber, and digging out the side panel because he wanted to connect to the water pipe also

It froze up in the ground years ago, and my son had set up the mobile with an easy access thaw wire and we don't want to spend another $300 on that task,

so we always ask renters to run the water during winter time and into first week in May

Paul didn't bring the heavy duty arc welder that runs on diesel,

but 2 smaller electrical ones.

He was getting 320 amps and let it go for over an hour, and it wasn't doing anything

He said, something is not right (The distance to the street would mean amps of 100 or so, not 300 indicating it wasn't going that far)

Well we fixed up an alternate system for the renter,

garden hose from the neighbor trailer,

and a splice into the water pipe

At that time, half hour after doing any heat clamp at all ....

the pipe was extremely hot the whole distance that it ran ...to the back of the unit.

When my son called & heard how things had gone, he reminded us that the electric company cut into our sewer line there already when they installed the new electrical boxes on all houses / mobiles in town about 3 years ago

That was a big ordeal, and they didn't want to pay anything at all ... and ended up with some minor reimbursement then.

As I think about it, we could have a ruined hot water tank, or the renter's computer could be damaged, it it was plugged in ... etc

She could still be at risk for fire tonight, as well

BUT

worker, Paul, was at serious risk, too

it was wet outside & he could have been hurt; us; others

If this has happened to us; then it could have happened to scores of others.

Paul says he already has two other temporary set ups like he just did for us.

No one would think that the thaw wire had been cut in two,

and causing a dangerous situation

3-31-08