Stopping condensate waste freezing

[Harvest Fields]

My condensate waste has only frozen up once and caused the boiler to switch off, this was on a particularly cold night. I thought of the following way of stopping the boiler switching off in the event of it freezing up again. The pipe drops out of the boiler vertically and then runs horizontally for about 900mm before it goes through the external wall into the drain. If I was to put a tee in the horizontal run with the branch set at 45 degrees and put a bucket under the tee on very cold nights. If the pipe should freeze up then the condensate would still be able to run out through the tee and the boiler shouldn't then switch off. Does anybody see any problems with this idea

Yes I do see problems with this idea. What boiler do you have?

 

[Harvest Fields]

Condensermate ..coming to a merchants near you soon, just got to find a manufacturer first.
I am building up a brand....Top Up Mate, Condensermate, combimate..(not mine) centralheatking

Doesn’t help now though does it mate?