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I found this wrap that should work. https://shop.unitherm.com/Pipe-Freeze-Protection-12Lx12W-120-Volts-p/fpw1212-120.htm

It's a T with no shutoff.

The well is also serving the house. I can't shut off the pipe to the shop and keep the house on.

The 8 ft. deep part isn't the problem, it's the vertical part that rises up through the concrete shop floor. The line is hooked up.

You have a completely different setup. The well serves the house also.

It's wrapped, but not enough. It's inside conduit. People around here that do what I did build the shop and don't have any problems because they heat the shop and play in it all winter. Morons like me that put the water in and don't build the same year have to figure out the heating part.

It's hooked to the well.

I can't. The line is 8 feet deep.

I was under the impression redmondjp was talking about a light at the water pipe. The Grip Clip Heat Tape Pro has a lighted plug, so I know it is on plugged in my patio outlet. I don't know it's necessarily working 50 feet away at the pipe without going out there and checking.

That is a great idea, but I'm not splicing the heat tape cord.

No, it just goes down 8 feet, then 70 feet or so straight into the well. I'll be checking to make sure the heat is working every day, I guarantee that!

Thanks! That led to exactly what I was thinking. "Heat Cable for Pipe Freeze Protection" on Amazon.

Hi all, I have a 32x48 slab with all the plumbing in place, ready to build the shop and do the bathroom. That will probably not happen this year, as Winter is ready to show up. I know there is a way to heat the existing water pipe, running a 10 gauge cord, but I don't know who makes such a...

I have no idea what you just said, but Thanks. I'll run that by the people that do at Lowe's.

Here is a link my Brother sent me, said it worked a lot better in a different house than what he did this Winter... http://www.hammerzone.com/archives/energy/conservation/basics_1/window_cover.htm

I thought about that, meaning my Brother did that this year in the same town, and I didn't. I'll have to ask him if it did anything. On Amazon, the film by Frost King claims to increase the R-value of single pane windows by 90 percent, which means to me that Saran wrap probably does the same...

Something to look into, thanks. It looks like manufacturers ditched the High in favor of the Low, but that was just one article from 2009. I'll have all that on a notepad to ask at Lowe's or other places. The South wall will probably just be 2 windows and a Man door. I might put a small car...

Thanks. I see Home Depot has the Pink R10, with one sheet having 4 cuts based on the windows I'm looking at. Whether I use 2 or 4 cuts per window is all dependent...

Yeah, I'll go the cheaper route because I can put in the Corbond blockers if it's too cold. Getting above an R-5 window would take away cash from my other needs.

Yeah, I'm thinking about a cardboard cutout to match the exact windows, then completely filling the cutout with Corbond. JM claims their Corbond has an R-7 value per inch, so that would do it. I'll be Corbonding the whole building anyway on all the seams.