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Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  >  General Q&A  > two days cold coming, not winterized yet Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next Buford T B • View posts Indiana New Member Joined: 10/30/2020 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/30/20 09:15am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator New TT, two nights temp in the 20s coming up but we want to go camping next week and winterize after that. Plan to hook up hose water, keep propane heater on low, trickle faucets, and put light bulb at water entry fixure in storage bay. This sound OK? Bob/Olallawa • View posts Kitsap Co, WA/Bullhead City AZ Senior Member Joined: 11/12/2008 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Offline Posted: 10/30/20 09:21am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Might want to run propane furnace on low setting as it throws some heat to the underbelly area of the trailer. If it gets well above freezing during the day you probably can get by without doing much at all. Welcome to my home, that door you just broke down was there for your protection not mine. 2oldman • View posts south Senior Member Joined: 04/15/2001 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/30/20 09:23am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator No. Why would you hook up water hose? Or trickle faucets? Lwiddis • View posts South of Lone Pine, California Senior Member Joined: 08/12/2016 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Online Posted: 10/30/20 10:48am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Water hose is a danger point. Winnebago 2101DS TT & 2020 Chevy Silverado 1500 LTZ Z71, 300 watt solar-parallel & MPPT, Trojan T-125s. TALL flag pole. Prefer USFS, COE, BLM, NPS, TVA, state & county camps. Bicyclist! 14 year Army vet-11B40 then 11A - (MOS 1542 & 1560) IOBC & IOAC grad Ed_Gee • View posts Central Oregon coast Senior Member Joined: 01/14/2015 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/30/20 11:16am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Hooked up to electricity? Put a small heater inside to keep warm and yes, put 60W or more lightbulbs in your wet bay. Don't forget behind fridge, too, if you have an icemaker being fed by RV water line. We did just fine doing this in one night of zero degrees F. Ed - on the Central Oregon coast 2018 Winnebago Fuse 23A Scion xA toad schlep1967 • View posts Harrisburg, PA Senior Member Joined: 12/08/2005 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 10/30/20 11:22am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Fill your onboard water tank and disconnect the hose. If you trickle the faucets the grey water tank will fill up within a few hours and flood the camper. Everything else sounds fine. 2008 Dodge Ram 2500 Diesel 2009 Open Range 385RLS Pull-Rite Super Glide schlep1967 • View posts Harrisburg, PA Senior Member Joined: 12/08/2005 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 10/30/20 11:25am Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Other option is to drain the fresh water tank and water heater. Then open the low point drains to get most of the water out of the system. Heat the camper as you planed to do. Then when it warms up hook up the hose and refill the water heater. After closing the low point drains of course. Tom/Barb • View posts Oak Harbor, Wa Senior Member Joined: 10/16/2009 View Profile Good Sam RV Club Member Posted: 10/30/20 01:27pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator We are done,, all water blown out, water heater empty, antifreeze added to all drains.. let it freeze. 2000 Newmar mountain aire 4081 DP, ISC/350 Allison 6 speed, Wrangler JL toad. valhalla360 • View posts No paticular place. Senior Member Joined: 08/19/2009 View Profile Posted: 10/30/20 02:01pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator Are you at a full hookup site? If yes, fill the fresh water tank. Drain and leave the gray & black open. Then run the furnace and leave the water heater on and it should be OK. Without a sewer hookup, the lines leaving the gray & black tanks are a problem as they often are outside the enclosed underbelly and at 20F, they can freeze. Tammy & Mike Ford F250 V10 2021 Gray Wolf Gemini Catamaran 34' Full Time spliting time between boat and 5er ktmrfs • View posts Portland, Oregon Senior Member Joined: 06/22/2005 View Profile Offline Posted: 10/30/20 02:15pm Link  |  Quote  |  Print  |  Notify Moderator my experience is that if your underbelly is covered the nightime temps are in the 20's but daytime temps get into the high 30's or so, freezing won't be a problem. It's when the freezing temps exist for more than 12 hours or so or get below 20 or so for much time. It takes a fair amount of energy to freeze water. 2011 Keystone Outback 295RE 2004 14' bikehauler with full living quarters 2015.5 Denali 4x4 CC/SB Duramax/Allison 2004.5 Silverado 4x4 CC/SB Duramax/Allison passed on to our Son! Reply to Topic  |  Subscribe  |  Print Topic  |  Post New Topic  |  Oldest first Newest first  Page of 2   Next Open Roads Forum  >  Travel Trailers  >  General Q&A  > two days cold coming, not winterized yet

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