Winters in Saskatchewan can be brutally cold. How brutal? Think 40-degrees-below-zero cold — and possibly worse with a wind chill factor. As such, frozen sewer pipes and other pipelines keep plumbers like Bruce Hunter, a technician at P & J Plumbing & Heating, busy during wintertime.
In fact, during severe cold snaps, it’s not unusual for Hunter to do nothing else but thaw out pipelines every day for a week or more at a time. His secret weapon for achieving that kind of productivity? The Arctic Blaster, made by Alberta-based Arctic Blasters, that uses steam to quickly melt ice.
“It’s easy
