Frost Free regulates the temperature of your water pipes to keep them above the point of freezing!
Stop pipes bursting at cold temperatures! Don't return home to £1000's of water damage!
If temperatures drop below zero and water begins to freeze within the pipes in your home the expansion during freezing can cause the pipes to fracture and burst even though your pipes are insulated, frost can still penetrate into the waterpipe.
When the water thaws it will pour out of the pipe until it is noticed and the water is shut off. This will cause visible and hidden damage to the structure of your house as well as damage to your personal posessions and untold disruption.
A Frost Free system can prevent this by regulating the temperature of your pipes. It will keep your water pipes above freezing point and ensure that you don’t return home to water damaged walls, ceilings, furniture or personal (and often irreplaceable) posessions.
The Frost Free Stat detects when the pipe temperature drops to 4°C and switches on the heating cable. When the pipe temerature reaches 8°C, the stat switches the power off. In this way, energy costs are kept to an absolute minimum.
Testimonial from a victim of real world water damageMy World Ended in 2011!
Frost Free TestimonialTo me this is a horror story of biblical proportions! This is the day that my world was turned upside down, my stomach churned and my heart almost stopped.
The bungalow had plenty of insulation – sorry, I thought that I had plenty of insulation – and we had only been away for a week to visit relatives over the festive season. The boiler had a frost stat; so why should there have been a problem?
Continuous really cold weather had penetrated the pipe insulation in the loft and I hadn’t switched the water off! The boiler stopped due to the condensate pipe freezing.
You can see the result. I very nearly died when I saw the mayhem when we came back.
Months of upset - £20,000 from the insurance company and over £2000 from my savings to replace uninsured items – you can see what it was like.
All this upset for the sake of £118 for a Frost Free kit for the loft, a £84 for a kit for the boiler and a couple of hours for an Electrician. It’s done now and I never want to go through that again!
In my defence, I didn’t know this type of product was available. It’s also so easy to install!
With Frost Free there are no more burst pipes
Frost Free THC is top of the range self-regulating heating cable and consists of 2 bus-wires with a special heating matrix between them. The bus-wires do not heat up and the heating matrix cleverly changes its resistance as it gets warmer to reduce its power consumption.
Frost Free Cable is Self Regulating
As the cable heats up, it cleverly reduces its power consumption generally or locally - so if it’s crossed over, the cable will automatically compensate for the increase in temperature where it’s crossed over - to prevent overheating.
Frost Free Cable Structure