Winterize Water Pit

mobile home university
1

Anyone have a good long term solution for winterizing water pits? I have 2ft deep plastic pit at each pit, the main lines are older copper. My plumber (damn near full-time I have so many leaks) and I have been talking about a few things:

  1. Pink insulation stuff down the pit with the cheap plastic pit covers and heat tape extended from home - this is what we have done in past with mixed success

  2. Lower the pits - I have 160 lots; 70 of them are meter; many of the meter are above the pit (some under home, some not). He wants to lower the pit and put the meter in the pit - this is his preferred way to do it. (not cheap though, $500 each pit)

  3. Wood mulch in the pit, blue insulation foam - this is plumber recommendation because the mulch will generate heat, the blue insulation does better with water…

Thoughts?

Community is in Indianapolis.

2

In one of my parks the water risers have built in heaters on them. Once the weather gets cold we just plug all of them in and we’re good to go.

For my other parks its the tenant’s responsibility to heat tape their water line as well as the water riser.