For cold weather dock and pier protection, you have 4 choices:
1) Take Dock Apart & Rebuild
- Take the dock apart and lug the pieces to shore and reassemble in the Spring
2) Install Expensive Cantilevered or Hinged Dock
- Install an expensive cantilevered or hinged dock, with cranks or electric motors to winch the deep water sections clear of the surface
3) Use Power Hungry & Disruptive De-Icer/Agitators
- Use power hungry and ecosystem disrupting agitating deicers hung under the dock and risk large areas of unwanted open water, in sometimes unpredictable directions.
4) Install inexpensive, reliable & reusable bubbler air lines
- Install bubbler air lines around the perimeter of your dock, opening the ice only in the areas immediately around your dock, with the energy efficient and eco-friendly Dockbubblers™ systems.
cold weather dock and pier protection
1
Take the dock apart and lug the pieces to shore and reassemble in the Spring
2
Install an expensive catilevered or hinged dock, with cranks or electric motors to winch the deep water sections clear of the surface
3
Use power hungry and ecosystem disrupting agitating deicers hung under the dock and risk large areas of unwanted open water, in sometimes unpredictable directions.
4
Install bubbler air lines around the perimeter of your dock, opening the ice only in the areas immediately around your dock, with the energy efficient and eco-friendly Dockbubblers™ systems.
We focus exclusively on true Dockbubblers™ systems and only high quality components:
- Durable PCV bubbler and feeder tubing
- Patented clip-on lead-free weights (no tools required)
- High reliability, energy efficient air pumps
- Outdoor, ventilated pump enclosures. Pump protection from the Winter elements
- Cooling fan with temperature control for the high performance pumps, AP550
- Tailored solutions. Large systems use multiple load-balanced loops for optimal performance.
Dock System Design, Configuration & Solutions
Many factors such as slope, uneven terrain, obstructions, and the shape of your dock and bubbler tubing placement affect system performance, good bubbles all around!
Please use these guidelines to assist with your system selection and installation. Please provide a sketch for custom requests.
For larger docks, we prefer multiple bubbler loops rather than a single-sourced bubbler loop. This often requires additional footage of feeder tubing, which is relatively inexpensive for the system performance benefits.
Pump box should be located on the dock near the 1st set of bubbler holes, and not in a boat house or other structures. Dockbubblers are designed for the outdoors, as we use weatherproof enclosures to protect our air pumps and minimize any moisture being pumped into the air tubing.