How To Measure a Retro-DWS When Installing Inside a Drain Pipe Leading to a Holding Tank With a Baffle - Heat-Line Freeze Protection Systems
How To Measure a Retro-DWS When Installing Inside a Drain Pipe Leading to a Holding Tank With a Baffle - Heat-Line Freeze Protection Systems

How To Measure a Retro-DWS When Installing Inside a Drain Pipe Leading to a Holding Tank With a Baffle

A frozen septic drain line is a real problem for many rural and residential residences in cold climates where ample ground coverage is not abundant enough to generate natural frost protection. Heat-Line provides various options to protect these drain lines from freezing with solutions that employ Heat-Line’s advanced self-regulating heating cable technology. The Retro-DWS an advanced internal self-regulating tubular heating cable system designed to insert directly inside these drains from an accessible clean-out located inside the residence. When installing a Retro-DWS system, measuring the proper length to the holding tank from the clean-out is essential and accessing the tank to confirm a proper measurement along with surveying the tank baffle is just as important.

Listen to this month’s video blog and learn directly from a Heat-Line specialist about measuring your drainpipe for a Retro-DWS installation and how the location of the baffle can alter this measurement.

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