Our water tank is in our garage - because there isn't room in the house (even though there isn't really room in the garage either). So when it gets cold we have to put a heat lamp on the tank (the fittings actually). However, when it gets really cold - like the 0 F that it was today - even that isn't enough. I don't know why it was okay this morning. I remember a couple times taking a shower at 5 am getting ready for church and losing water in the midst of a nice lather. But today it didn't freeze up until the middle of the afternoon. At any rate, I plugged in a second lamp and in about 15 minutes it was running again.It's the same thing at the church building even though the water tank is in an underground pit. Of course that makes it a wee bit harder to get to. You can either climb through a teeny opening and get down in there, or choose my method of dangling upside-down trying to do everything one-handed. This year I bought a heavy-duty lamp for the church - hoping I wouldn't need to add a second one. It apparently did the trick yesterday. And I'm glad I thought to do this during the week when it was warmer instead of waiting until it was already frozen like some years.
Monday it's supposed to be a balmy 24 F, so hopefully we can go back to one lamp at home again.
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