Features of the winter water supply system in the country! How will it be right?

So friends with warmth in the country, we have already figured it out in past articles:

• How to properly prepare a summer cottage for a weekend getaway in winter? Winter operation of the cottage!
• How to properly prepare for winter? Methods of warming a country house.
• Do you want to correctly calculate the thickness of the insulation? We keep to ourselves the table of resistance to heat transfer!

But a comfortable stay in the country is impossible without a reliable water supply system. In previous articles, I already wrote that the water left in the pipes, when freezing, will rupture them. The water must be drained, and this will have to be done every winter visit to the cottage.

To somewhat simplify your task, you can use this trick. For example, so as not to pump water from the knee of the toilet with a syringe, and then plug the hole with a sponge for washing machines, which will help to avoid the spread of unpleasant odors from the septic tank, you can use the "old-fashioned" way. In case of frost down to -10 ° C, pour a concentrated solution of table salt into the knee (salt can be dissolved in hot water).

Go ahead. The water supply requires a water source. It can be a well, an Abyssinian, or an ordinary well. If you choose a well, you can solve the main problem of the country water supply - freezing of water in the pipes.

This is how it is done. A well-insulated thermos box is being erected above the well (as a heater for the walls of the sarcophagus, you can use expanded polystyrene 10 cm thick), which allows you to keep the heat of the water column in the well above 0 ° C in any frosts.

The water in the well will not freeze due to the thermos box, since the temperature inside it is maintained at the level of +5 ° C +7 ° C due to the water column even in severe frost.

Snow from the box lid also no need to peel off, since this layer is a natural insulation. A submersible pump is lowered into the well, which is connected to an insulated pipe, led into the house and laid at a certain depth. In the event that you think over the pipe layout to the smallest detail, and assemble an option in which water in the pipe will not remain, then there is nothing to worry about the depth of the pipe. The pipe will not burst, even if it is laid above the freezing depth (about 1.5 - 1.8 m, depending on the region of residence).

You can find out the depth of soil freezing for your region here:

Freezing depth calculation table in Russia! Save!

With this version of the assembly of the water supply system, there is a main trick so that the water does not remain in the winter. pipes - one of the taps in the house must be left constantly open so that it can pass inside the pipeline air.

It was experimentally found that water (with the taps open) drained from the water supply system back into the well, 15 minutes is enough. Thus, the pipes remain intact even in severe frosts. When the pump starts up, the pipe is filled with water from a depth of 8 meters with a temperature of + 5 ° C - + 7 ° C.

The second option is to simply use the heating cable in the water system!

There are two types of heating cables - resistive and self-regulating. In resistive ones, the property of metals is used to heat up when an electric current passes. A metal conductor is heated in heating cables of this type. Their characteristic feature is that they always emit the same amount of heat.

It doesn't matter if it's + 3 ° C or -20 ° C outside, they will be heated the same way - at full power, therefore, they will consume the same amount of electricity. To reduce costs in a relatively warm time, temperature sensors and a thermostat are installed in the system (the same as used for an electric floor heating).

Summing up, let's say that the winter operation of a summer house, although it involves a number of difficulties, but knowing about these features in advance, you can successfully spend a weekend in a summer house even in severe frosts.

I hope this information was useful to you!

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