Solving frozen water pipe problem

[@Skakhti]

I am not even particularly interested in the type of content you upload and yet I find myself absolutely captivated by all of it. Easily one of my favorite channels on KZbin.

[@oneplanetonespecies]

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[@ilyass78877]

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[@kurtnowak8895]

I have a theory that a good KZbinr is not so much about what they’re doing- we watch them because we find their personality engaging. For me, Bjoernstroem is both.

[@c-v-n3322]

it's crazy I too seem to have fallen to watching his content.

[@JPBinTN]

Not taking shortcuts, finishing the job. Good video

[@nathnullobject]

Greetings from Sydney Australia. Your landscape is truly alien to me. I have never seen anything like it.

[@NUTTER8291]

That's because Australians have their Christmas in the summertime !!! 😂😂🤣 G'DAY from the UK my friend 🤪😝

[@bigvideoenergy]

Go to Canberra.... Australia very much has snowfields

[@kevjo13]

I just wish you could post more often. I just love your videos. You have such a talent in fabrication! I have learned a lot from wat hing your videos. I am going to go to trade school for welding when i graduate. My dad has been teaching me and I have been practicing.

[@AW-Services]

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[@jarkkolouhe11]

Proper maintenance.Pro tip from dwelldiver is use a leafblower and push some air and remove toxic air from the dwell before entering inside it.And wear some harness also.Great video!Greetings from Finland!

[@Deckzwabber]

Seems like solid advice. Is the harness for the fire brigade to lift you out in case of losing your consiousness?

[@jarkkolouhe11]

@@Deckzwabber Exactly, never can be too careful when your life is on the line.

[@the_hate_inside1085]

@@Deckzwabber The harness leaves you dangling in a rope, instead off falling to the bottom of the well.

[@AW-Services]

Absolutely brilliant video. The highlight for me was seeing a native countryman cooking over a traditional open fire and living his best life. Living in the UK it's easy to take mains tao water for granted. Living off grid and using a well in sub artic conditions really highlights the need for preventative maintenance and defrosting your pipework. Thanks for sharing another snapshot of your life and work. Greetings from North Devon UK 🇬🇧

[@AdamSouthall]

More videos please. I really enjoy all the different tasks. Thank you.

[@mrpetit2]

I saw that trick with the vacuum cleaner and fishing line also on Diesel Creek, where it also worked very well 👍 The landscape where you live is truely beautiful. Greeting from the Netherlands 😁👍

[@CS_Blitzen]

I see you too are a man of culture, I love Matt and Mattias' videos myself, very easy to watch

[@christian_koester]

I guess that's where we all saw it ;)

[@Stealth55555]

People have been using this trick for decades. Electricians been using this trick forever ;)

[@heighRick]

video starts, has a van, puts equipment on the front seat ...love it! Thanks M. Bjoernstroem, helps a lot ...right back to the rest of the video :)

[@davidmcd8400]

to keep it warm

[@GICK117]

We're not as cold as your part of the world, but close. Thanks for sharing your life with us. I am sure your pop appreciated your efforts. I am probably his age or older. You keep doing what you do and I'll keep watchin. Cheers from Mew Mexico, USA!

[@adeeponionbrah]

Nice to be along with you! Thanks for the cold ride!

[@CS_Blitzen]

The more of your videos I watch, the more I want to live in Sweden it's especially beautiful in the winter.

[@tujuprojects]

Try Malmö, it ought to be interesting.

[@dennishayes65]

That’s the most snow i’ve seen all year, and i live in Minnesota, USA. We’ve had a very mild winter here. We’ve only had about 12”. of snow this winter and it’s all gone. We usually have 48” on average each winter. It’s been warm too. I enjoy your videos. My wife has got some Swedish blood in her from her dad. His ancestors were Karlssons but they changed their name to Nyquist when they came to America.

[@SomeHomies]

Really great job, I like your attitude to finish a job properly. Greetings from Ireland

[@mwilkins1180]

On the team of putting a toaster in a bathtub😅

[@Dysiode]

2:15 The video is just getting started and it's already teaching me new things! So cool to visually see the frost layer depth like that. Always love your videos

[@jeffmonoxide]

Thank you for another great video of your life in Sweden. It is so wonderful that you share this. Thank you!

[@mariefrid9614]

I love how professional your videos are! So interesting to see how you take care of our country in the north. Best regards, from Skåne 🏝️

[@loicfurnon1085]

Great video again ! Nice to hear some of you native language of sweden ! The old man got a nice work buddy !

[@retronexusnet]

You are like the big brother that takes one on the day routine and shows how shit is done. amazing

[@franz357]

There goes one more awesome video by Mr Bjoernstroem ! Thanks man: as always the video is as great as the jobs displayed !👍 Cheers from Paris, France.

[@adamsalerno881]

Truly love your content. While I am into the types of projects you do, your manner and approach is what keeps me coming back. Keep up the great work.

[@Jacob-de-Veroveraar]

This was great, thanks for taking me along. Greetings from the Netherlands, in our region the ground water is just 40 cm away.

[@madanf1]

You are live in a very beautiful place. I love to see your videos.

[@lewiemcneely9143]

FINE job on fixing the water and you are an outdoor chef! Looked FINE to me! Blessings 2 U!

[@EnGammalAmazon]

As always, another great video. I could tell every move you were going to make. It is all so rational and practical. I think working that way and problem solving is a genetic thing with Swedes. Keep up the good work. I look forward to watching the shop building go up.

[@russellfreeburn6284]

Hands down my favourite channel, cheers mate from Australia

[@kenerikson4853]

Love your videos. Please keep them coming. I don't know how you learned to do all the things you do. Even enjoyed watching you cook lunch.

[@cleenlivin]

Another cool video. It’s always really interesting to see the way you fix problems that come your way. I never saw a direct heating cable like that to prevent a pipe from freezing. Seems like a good option versus wrapping the pipe with heating tape. I like the method you used before applying the final heat shrink to create a “Y”. 👍👍 Great looking meal. Having lived in Minnesota USA I can see why so many Swedes immigrated there and thrived. Similar climate and need for self-reliance and ingenuity.

[@classekaka]

Eating lunch just before sunset, that's Swedish winter for you. Great content as always, the storytelling is perfekt regardless of what you build or fix.

[@teapot_]

Tack...thanks from near Cambridge in the uk. I do enjoy your videos, keep them coming. And well done in sorting out another problem.

[@deas1972]

Stort tack för denna filmen. Mycket lärorikt! Trodde aldrig en fiskelina skulle orka med att dra detta.

[@kiiiisu]

best channel of this genre in youtube

[@smev4341]

Another job WELL done.

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thank you!

[@hevzlloyd]

Your patience is admirable 👏🏼🙌🏼

[@09FLTRMM77]

MM77 Approved 👍🏻👍🏻……………………………………………………….I work in a chemical plant and it was cool to see how you clear a frozen water line! We have electric heat tracing or steam tracing on pipes that are likely to freeze, but sometimes we have to resort to steam lances in or on the outside of pipes. I can’t imagine if the plant I work at was in a climate as cold as yours!! I guess everything would have to be inside a building or we would just have to shut down in the winter!

[@sundelldennis]

Absolut håller med fler post! Men jag vet hur mycket jobb som ligger bakom, men kanske lite vlog updates ? 😀 Skoter slutet magiskt 👍Ser redan fram emot nästa upload!

[@adamsherm29]

Awesome to finally see a new video my friend!!! Been going back and watching older ones. Hope we get to see more rock crusher improvement videos once the weather gets better. Shoot, I will even settle for blasting rocks. Lol

[@everestyeti]

Absolutely stunning scenery, love the aerial shots from the drone. Thankfully I've only had a water main freeze once which was 40yrs ago, never again always made sure after that it would never happen again. 👍

[@warlinder]

Tack!

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Tackar!

[@Earthling418]

And today I learned about a machine I was unaware of. Fantastic!

[@Larry-325]

Always love your videos! Here in Maine USA I had a home with a well and had a lot of freeze ups. Kept thinking of ways to fix it in summer but it wasn’t a problem in the summer so I would put it off. Finally I fixed it. I now live in a town with town water but I would have loved a set up like that instead of under the building with heat guns. 👍👍

[@mp3625]

Lol dad appreciated the help! Gourmet burgers in the bush fabulous!

[@narciasz-l1c]

Timmins, Ontario, Canada. The first three weeks of January 1998. The temperature dropped to minus 35 during the day and to minus 45/50 ℃ at night. The water supply to my house and many, many other residents froze. I unscrewed the main valve, inserted a drill with the inner diameter of the copper water inlet pipe into the sewer cleaning spiral (I placed the entire spiral in a plastic pipe to prevent it from flying around the basement), and screwed the other end of the spiral into the drill. After 3/4 hours, I drilled the ice plug. Before I could turn the valve back on, I had a decent shower! But it worked, my wife didn't have to melt the snow to... you know. Recipe for the future: When a heavy frost is approaching, water _should_ trickle slightly, e.g. into a bathtub.

[@KathyKinnaird]

My goodness I would feel better if someone was spotting you while you were found in that well. 😮 Well now that the floor vacuum is in the mix we won't worry about the well😅. You remind me of my son. Stay safe. From Bakersfield California USA

[@pizzzaaaboiiiii4974]

Damn, those burgers look delicious. Thanks for the awesome video, can't wait for the next one!

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks, and they sure was

[@matte5040]

​@@M.BJOERNSTROEM Håller med, burgarna såg supergoda ut! (Och "leek" är purjolök, du hade "red onion" på. 😉)

[@gordoncampbell4706]

Hej Mattias, many years ago when visiting Borgholm slott on beautiful Öland, I learned that the Danes and the Swedes had faught for many years over possession of the castle because of it's strategic location to Sweden. The Danes finally pact up and left because it was so labor intensive and costly to maintain. Du gamla du fria, best regards from Canada. Skål!

[@the_hate_inside1085]

The Danes had to leave, because they just drink beer all day, while the Swedes are fierce fighters, and whup their ass in every war we have had for centuries...

[@gordoncampbell4706]

​@@the_hate_inside1085 was beer even available in the 14th century? Apparently the castle was very costly to heat. Skål

[@the_hate_inside1085]

@@gordoncampbell4706 Yes, oldest beer recipe is 5.000 years old. Sounds like stupid danish excuses. I bet according to the French, their retreat in WW2 was because of heating costs also...

[@gordoncampbell4706]

@@the_hate_inside1085 I can't speak for the Danes or the French but after seeing how hard Mattias works it's obvious , to survive near the arctic circle in Sweden you must have many skills and be as hard as nails.

[@quietbrianquiet]

I like watching your country as much as you like showing it off, it is a true place of beauty. If that was Texas the deer would be dressed and the meat in the freezer before the hour had ended. haha

[@pabloguastavino4877]

Hi there, the sucking vacuum cleaner was a neat trick. Entertaining video as usual. Thanks!

[@alexbufo]

excellent video, you are a great fellow and a great master

[@upstate-.-alien]

Thats neat seeing the water temp drop as you push closer to the well.

[@SJ-ty4nd]

Another hour of awesome content! Nice to see your channel growing. Thanks Kiddo...😄

[@howie4150]

Thanks for bringing us along.. The winter life looks fun. You rock. I still think you look like Matt Damon lol

[@JDMMACEO]

Love watching. Harsh environment where you live though. I’m in Florida, US and it seems like it must take a special kind of hardiness to work out there. Thanks for videos.

[@mikebashford8198]

Wonderful video - especially liked the drone footage - and I like to learn new stuff every day - I now know how to defrost an underground pipe, and know that heating cable exists! Hope you don't mind my suggestion on English usage (I'm a native speaker, your English is superb) - 'old man' means any old man - 'the old man' means my father. At least in UK, not sure about USA or Australia.

[@andrewdavies4463]

Another great video ,wish you would post more content, hi from Scotland

[@dionina7715]

an amazing method in my opinion because I have not experienced such a thing in my country because we do not have snow hahaha and I happen to work in a company engaged in clean water installation, plumbing and air conditioning I will try something that might be new but hopefully my idea will be useful let's say our piping system has one inlet and three outlets with a pipe dimension of three inches to anticipate if the flow is disrupted by freezing due to the ambient temperature being too cold, in each of the three outlets and one inlet we install a three-inch valve then on the "inner side" of the four valves we install a pipe with a size of about one inch and each is equipped with a one-inch valve too in normal conditions and the system runs as usual, the four one-inch valves are in the closed position and the four three-inch valves are in the open position and ...... in a state where the system is not running normally or is disrupted because the water in the pipe freezes, the four one-inch valves are in the open position and the four three-inch valves are in the closed position ............ we do flashing by injecting hot water under pressure.

[@SoggyBiscuitAus]

Swedish version of Andrew Camarata, love your content buddy, from Melbourne,Australia

[@anthoneyking6572]

Great Vlog mate always Love seeing you sort out Problems your Very Good at it Thanks

[@Ston3m4n]

The burges looked epic!

[@wirenut003]

Hello from Staten Island New York, great video looked like a pain in the ass job.

[@Asfera1]

Greetings and salutations from MA, USA

[@LyixID]

Finally, valuable and Cool content will be broadcast again in 2024, I am happy to watch it. Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩

[@talalalnajdawi]

my favorite channels on KZbin. I want more videos for you and to film more videos 24 hours a day. and every day . I enjoy watching your videos and living with them

[@sydneymcconnaughhay5947]

Great video,from Florida

[@chrisfairbrother9197]

A good job done for your Dad. I bet he is pleased you can help him. How about powering the heating cable through a frost stat? 😊

[@TimothyVershkov]

Its always a good day when you post a video.

[@BarnStangz]

Super cool video! I liked the roosting on the camera at the end! Be well my friend.

[@jonnafry]

@10:00 ... I thought you were feeding the guy in the red cap but then I saw the deer! Great video as always ... keep 'em coming. Cheers.

[@talalalnajdawi]

thank you very muThank you for inviting us to share with you the nature of your life and work. I repeat, thank you very very much

[@ArtDeLaRenovation]

good idea with the vacuum cleaner, you're really ingenious!

[@d.j.robinson9424]

Absolutely love your adventures. 👍👍💛🛠

[@voxess]

Kul när man får se din stiliga pappa med i klippen! Alltid lika trevligt att kika på dina skapelser & när du e i den vackraste byn på jorden & filmar.

[@OldLadyinUk]

Thank you,another brilliant video. 😊😊

[@peterparsons7141]

Did you have a mild winter this year ? Here in Eastern Ontario, we had very little snow compared to normal winter. Snow is gone, rivers are open at the end of February. Migrating birds have been back for weeks, still frozen up north , but thawing quickly. Maybe that’s why the system froze, no snow cover to insulate the ground. Frost goes much deeper when there’s no snow cover.

[@idkkdi8620]

Northern sweden has been very cold this winter. -20C for weeks. Last summer was also colder than usual.

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

It's getting mild now, but in the middle of the winter we had over -40C (-40f) for a while, so it's been really cold. Yeah the frost can go below 3 meters (10feet) in areas you plow.

[@warlinder]

49:12 Leek = Union 🫣 Thanks for a really good content, explanation and interesting upload! As usual! 🫵🤘

[@marv1405]

Most interesting, entertaining, and informative. I look forward to each one of your postings. I don't recall seeing the equipment, fittings and adapters you used to thaw the water line in stores here but I suspect frreezing water lines is fairly common in the area where you live and your local hardware store carries it in stock. How deep does the ground typically freeze there and when does the ground get unfrozen from the surface down to the lowest frozen level?

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Thanks!. The snow came so early this year so under it, the ground is barely frozen. Even though its been under -40c (-40f) for some time. But if you plow an area it can shoot down to 3 meters (10 feet)

[@raymcniel-kr3qr]

Enjoyed your video from Alabama usa

[@sjoerdriberi9268]

its dinner time here, so those burgers not only looked good, they were mouth watering good

[@gibbogle]

What a hell of a job! Where I live we don't even get winter frosts these days. I feel spoiled.

[@DanKoning777]

Great video and a 👍 as always-something reflected in the increase in subs. If I remember correctly, you were at roughly 51k when I subscribed about a yr ago. Anyway, glad to see the increase and hope you're able to post more often so it's more profitable for you. God bless.

[@AlexDerange]

Would there not be a way to have the water heat up AND the pump going ? I'm curious why the electrical was done this way, forcing you to choose between heat or pressure

[@stianh.1195]

Love your content! ❤ Greetings from Norway.

[@Kjema]

Fellow Norwegian here

[@iPunisher]

I really enjoy your videos you have a knack when it comes to editing and I find your content interesting thanks for sharing

[@Vei2aC]

Hey man, i hope your well, i enjoiy your videos way to much, really love you as a person, your awsome, intresting, i wish i could just give you 10mill subs, i wish more people watched this sort of stuff, Kindest regards to you from the UK, as long as you upload, i will be watching =] .

[@jstevison]

Oh and BTW, you really make me want to live there. It's so nice there.

[@petter5721]

Bra jobbat 😀🇸🇪👍🏻

[@M.BJOERNSTROEM]

Tackar!

[@garymacneil2484]

Great Job, all the way from cape breton ,nova scotia canada

[@11sesquialtera]

LOve your work; your ingenuity, and skills; love your look, and the place you live. Joie de vivre

[@marcovandinther1809]

The trick with the vacuumcleaner and the string works great. Using a normal vacuumcleaner for sucking out the water is a great way to kill your vacuumcleaner.

[@GEOKUPANT]

Good content! Greetings from Georgia (country).

[@bigmotter001]

Wow, great videos! Thanks for posting and take care! John in the US.

[@AlexKall]

I wouldn't feel comfortable to go down in that well 😬 Feel like going out and making a "wild burger" now after seeing the end of your video! 🤤

[@dtiydr]

46:29 That is way closer the fire than I would have put them since the flames shouldn't really touch them only the heat should cook them, unless you would like the taste of the burnt wood which could be ok that as well but not for me.

[@retronexusnet]

This guy has the most content and best life... I feel I want the same

[@ezequielmilazzo3540]

Me gustan muchos tus videos. Desde Argentina 🇦🇷👍

[@TRS-Tech]

Very interesting video, thanks 🙂 .. it's a shame your pressure switch is not at the well end as you could have connected the heating cable at the well end. I expect if you ever have to put a pump in one day you will run some heater cable in the duct.... How much capacity does the heat cable cut from the water pipe do you think ?

[@nedialex6309]

Great job and very good video - greetings! Just allow me an advice - for BBQ use a solid metal plate(concave) instead of a barred one - You will be more satisfied from the result! :)

[@helenmagee5723]

You could use compressed air to aid the installation of the heated wire. U would need to disconnect the pipe at the well end though unfortunately because there’s a non return valve on the pump. (I know you were trying to avoid getting down into the well). Connect air to the T of that brass fitting. You may have thought of this already. Cheers from ireland 🇮🇪 😊

[@MichelRay-n3q]

Vidéo passionnante et intéressante,superbe travail,bravo chef 👍👍👍👍👍🤓🇨🇭

[@outnorthprospecting]

Bra jobbat som vanligt! Jag kan slå vad om att dom Burgarna smakade riktigt bra där ute på vidda😊👌