For cold weather dock and pier protection, you have 4 choices:
For cold weather dock and pier ice protection, you have four options:
- Seasonally, take apart dock sections and lug to shore and in Spring, re-install.
- Expensive hinged docks with cranks or motors and unsightly cables to lift dock posts out of the water.
- Power hungry and eco-disruptive agitators/de-icers, which are difficult to align to your dock shape.
- Energy efficient and eco-friendly perimeter air bubbler systems, which use bubbler tubing, laid on the lake bottom around dock.
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 dense rubber/PCV hybrid self-sinking bubbler tubing and high-quality, flexible, clear PVC Vinyl feeder tubing
- Durable single-ear (Oetiker ®) tubing clamps and brass couplers
- 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, AP-550/800, with larger systems
- Tailored solutions. Any lengths of Bubbler and Feeder tubing. Large systems use multiple load-balanced loops for optimal performance.
DockBubblers® System Design, Configuration & Solutions
Click on System Selector/Advice for a guided DockBubblers® system recommendation.
- Measure your dock perimeter for total bubbler tubing required.
- For any questions or a custom quotation for your unique boat dock or pier, click on "Contact" information below, in the Quick Links, or use the email form, at the bottom of System Selector page.