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Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2025
It will heat up fine, but mine would never turn on when it was freezing. I had to wrap the thermostat with ice packs to get to turn on.
Marc Tucker
Reviewed in the United States on January 6, 2025
I purchased this product for winters in Texas. Installed the product, temps got to 18 degrees and everything froze up. Light is on, you can hear it kick on but does not do what it says. A really junky product, don’t waste your money.
BizeeBee
Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024
I like it and installed it under my trailer, I ran it along PEX A pipe. Looking forward to next year no frozen water!
Barry
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2024
the product was good, the person that put back in the box was to blame, we work 4 hrs taking pipe apart just find it was no good, so now we have to tear it apart. at 40.00 hr for labor i thank it is only right, please look at my buying record, i purchased a lot of stuff from you guys but have been getting a lot of junk lately most is not worth driving out of my way to send it back so i throw it away. now because someone did not check it out and at 9 degrees this week it frozen solid . the stuff people selling on Amazon a lot of it is junk someone needs to incept , i bought some steel for turning and some that was not right. some drill bits were not worth what i paid for them please give us some quality stuff to choose from thankyou Barry i build a lot custom thing but i cant continue to pass it on customer and for my self
Louslugger
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2024
My heated RV hose quit working & I was shocked to find out that the replacement cost was $100 more than the original I purchased in 2020.My solution was to buy a metal clad hose and this tape. I wrapped the two together with the supplied electrical tape & so far it is working great & I am into this for about $150 less than a pre-built heated hose.I also plan to wrap it in heat resistant tape to provide more protection from the elements.It says that you can apply it to a regular hose but I'm not sure how hot this thing is actually capable of getting, so I bought a metal clad hose just to be safe. so far, so good.
Educated knuckle dragger
Reviewed in the United States on January 9, 2024
If you've got dangerous ice or lots of snow, this is a sound investment. I live at 3,300 feet, and I wish I could have got 3 times as much as I did. I "zig-zag" (more of a teardrop shape)with aprox 6" spacing between horizontal lines and the closest I'll bring them typically is 2 or 3". When using on the ground, I weigh the cord down with long rebar pieces or other metal pieces that aren't very heavy but enough to flatten it out, then I found that putting a tarp over that and securing the edges helps speed things up and increase effect range (for me at 25°f and 8" snow, it seemed like 3x faster than not covered with a tarp. Even if it snowed on the tarp, the heat trapped inside tarp allowed the majority of exposed surface area to still melt snow not just where the cord was. I thought that was neat. However, uncovered, good luck. I kept checking it for 12 hours around 27-34°f and only aprox 1/2 inch surface area around the cable had melted down to the gravel road. I was not happy, that's when I tried the tarp idea, which I will do anytime I use this heating cord. By the way, don't take what I'm about to say as good advice, but in a desperate situation, if you're freezing cold, this cord I have yet to find ever being dangerously hot. I have zero issues with holding the whole roll, just a little heavy, but if you have no other reasonable option, you could put this around you (cord remaining outside clothing) to potentially keep from freezing to death quickly. It's a last chance emergency only option, by no way is it a solution or a reliable fail safe plan, but when you're desperate and only other options are die cold or die cold and exhausted... I'd wrap the dang thing around me like seaweed on a sushi roll and try to find some way to insulate myself and my new best buddy heat cord from the elements. Truth though, I don't see good survival past 1 hour in below freezing Temps with the cord being the deciding factor. Below 20°f, maybe 10-15 minutes, and the whole time knowing you should have been better prepared.
Rick Fehr
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2024
I installed it and works great
Ronald W Berger
Reviewed in the United States on December 11, 2022
Having this at 100' is ideal for my 42' long roof line. I need to order custom clips to do the full install which I expected because I have snap seam rather than crimped standing seam so the overlaps are wider and I don't want to crush them. The clips would work fine for a crimped standing seam roof.I tested the heating on this and it heats up nicely. So will have no problem melting the snow.My roof is non-vented and has R-28 foam underneath the standing seam. The only way to keep this clear is to heat and put up some now retention or I will always have a snow berm along the side of the house.Once I have this installed (need dryer weather) I should be able to install gutters to keep the snow from dumping along the side of the house. I will also put show retention about 2 feet above the gutters with the heat wire along the retention poles to get a consistent melt instead of a full dump.The 100' will allow me to zig-zag this high and low to use the slope to get rid of the snow.
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