Heat tape, 3FT Deicing Heating Cable,Pipe (Metal And Plastic) Freeze Protected Water Pipe Heating Cable, Self Regulating Temperature 120V 8W/ft

I was surprised that it was difficult to find heat tape that would work to melt the ice and keep my rain gutters flowing... everything at the local hardware stores only worked on pipes. However, this heat tape worked awesome for thawing my rain gutters and getting them flowing again! Simply run the tape through the gutters that are frozen or that you want to keep un frozen and plug in. The built in thermostat operates only in freezing conditions and turns off above a certain temperature to avoid wasting electricity. over the summer I plan on running this stuff through all of my problematic gutters and then will just plug in during the extreme cold winter.

I recently had my roof replaced. Of course they had to remove the old heat tape. It was old and brittle so I purchased this item and the Superintendent was kind enough to install it for me. He said it was “very good quality.” I appreciated his opinion because I have no knowledge of heat tapes.

Strange well situation with the neighbors letting us run a line after our well collapsed, but the temp line is above ground - worked great last winter, but they recently got a goat who likes the grass on my land better . We'll see if it makes it through another winter or if it gets goat seal of approval or "danger shock hazard for goats." (Note I have never seen the goat chewing on anything electrical, this was meant to make you laugh, though he did eat part of a plastic funnel and some wire holding some tomato plants up... aaaaand the tomato plants and part of one of the 5 gal buckets the plants were in... so who knows)

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.

The product arrives in high quality packaging, there is a light inside the plug so you know electricity is getting to the wire, and the wire is very thick and well-insulated.I wrapped this around my sump pump discharge pipe which had acquired an ice plug. I covered it with a weighted down tarp and w/in 12 hours was able to pull the ice plug out. I'm sure there are better ways to clear out an ice plug, but this is what I came up with and it worked great.

Great for my application and shipped very timely.

Works ok

When I built my tiny house everyone said I'd have to bury the water line going out to it. Even the inspector said the heated cable idea wouldn't work. We had our first snow of the year and it's 12 degrees at night so far the heat wrap is holding up. So I definitely recommend it for tiny house/ADU/RV/van lifers who need to connect to municipal water in the winter. A few things to note: For best results - 1.) Use aluminum foil on the water line first 2.) apply heated cabled along the length of the water line, secure with electrical tape 3.) wrap it all with bubble foil insulation. Lastly, this cable peaks at 18amps. A 15amp outlet is fine but make sure the breaker supplying it has very little load or you could potentially damage the cable. Also, if you're trying to use this with an external thermostat make sure it's rated for 20amps or more.