I need to install plumbing in my Northern Michigan (cold!) hunting cabin, but want to keep the pressure tank outside and underground if possible. Does anybody make a tank that can simply be buried below the frost line to prevent it from freezing in the winter time? My idea is to bury a tank (if possible) and have it run to a drain-back outdoor hydrant. Then, when I want water inside the cabin during the summer months, I can hook a garden hose from the hydrant to the cabin plumbing, and pressurize the system by turning the hydrant on. When winter comes, I will simply unhook the garden hose and drain the cabin pipes. Idiot-proof way of preventing frozen pipes. And, I will still have accessible water, it will just be outside at the drain-back hydrant. My only roadblock to this "ingeniously-redneck" idea is that I can not find a underground pressure tank. Anybody know if there is such a thing? If so, are they durable enough that they don't need to be dug up and serviced every year?
2007-10-26
18:01:14
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jake p
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