Freezing Crawl Space Discharge Lines

Winter can be extremely hazardous to your crawl space’s health.  The water from your crawl space is carried out and away from your home with a pipe—usually plastic and about 1 ½ inches in diameter.  This pipe runs along the ground or in a shallow trench and discharges the water away from your home.

So why are there suddenly more complications in the winter?  The problem arises during winter conditions when the outlet of the pipe becomes blocked with snow and ice.  When the pump runs, it fills the pipe with water.  If the water can’t escape due to blockage, the whole pipe fills with water and freezes.  As a result, your crawl space floods because the water had nowhere else to go. 

What can be done to fix this problem?  Woods Basement Systems offers the perfect solution—IceGuard.  The IceGuard system is a specially engineered fitting that goes outside your home and automatically ejects the water away from the exterior wall in the event that the pipe freezes.  It is designed with holes in it to allow the water to escape, yet no water exists out of the holes when the pipe is not frozen.  IceGuard is by far the best solution to freezing discharge lines.