Quote Originally Posted by kitedemon View Post
PVC is fairly strong specially 3/8 the way it heats is different it is easier to heat through but it looses heat faster as well since you are talking a rack heating through it isn't an issue but heat loss could be unless you heat your snake room to correct ambient temps.
The rack would be in a basement, which gets rather cold in the winter, so ambient temps are low in winter. This would be an issue with the regular pvc more so than the xpvc?

And no, heating the whole basement more, or using space heaters is unfortunately not an option.