GULFMAN
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When camping in cold weather (below freezing)conditions do you do any thing different or special to your truck camper then you would any other time like the fresh water hose and water filter the landline opening and outside shower opening and the water hose opening seems to be a area that is subject to freezing.
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Depends on the camper some are made for cold weather use some are not, check your owners manual for specifics on your camper.
Our Lance with cold weather package has worked fine in +6 degrees. With water in tanks but we leave the furnace on even when driving at those temps. Set to at least 60.
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Our Lance 815 doesn't have a cold weather package and been able to do zero degree cold by keeping the furance on, the cabinet door under the sink open. This allows warm air to get to the hot water(its on too)tank,water tank and some anti-freeze in the waste tanks. Only had the dump gate freeze up one time at the Grandcanyon, a hot towel took care of that problem.
Zero degrees that night.
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magic43
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Definitely insulate inside the outside shower door. Even if you have the water turned off. This is a place for serious cold air intrusion. I used two layers of insulite. (The 1/2" blue pad that is placed under sleeping bags.) Look in all compartments and check to be sure that no water lines are against the outside walls. If so, use more insulite for separation. If the cabinet under the sink is not heated, then leave a cabinet door open.
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JoeChiOhki
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I did some modifications to my plumbing for cold weather camping. First, since there's never city water available, I put in a cut off valve and blow out so that I could pressurize the camper's water system at home, then close it off below the cabinet level (Where the heat is) and blow it out so as to prevent freeze up.
I then bought several packages of foam pipe wrap and insulated all the water lines in the camper. Since in the case of my KIT, all the water lines run right at the front of the cabinets near the doors (About as far from the walls as it can get) doing this was fairly easy insurance of preventing a freeze up.
The last owner made window inserts for most of the windows in the camper, but forgot the door and roof vents. I made inserts for those. Thus far tested, I can keep the camper warm to 65 degrees with only occasional cycling of the furance in 20 degree temps (roughly once a half hour-forty five minutes). It will take a mountain adventure to give it even better test. But, I know at least that night, while having to live at work, the shower run off was freezing on the ground and there was frost all along the aluminum siding. But, the camper was toasty warm and fully water functional.
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magic43 wrote:Definitely insulate inside the outside shower door. Even if you have the water turned off. This is a place for serious cold air intrusion. I used two layers of insulite. (The 1/2" blue pad that is placed under sleeping bags.) Look in all compartments and check to be sure that no water lines are against the outside walls. If so, use more insulite for separation. If the cabinet under the sink is not heated, then leave a cabinet door open.
I'll second the thought about insulating the outside shower compartment. I use the foil type insulation, but the insulite pad use is a great idea. I wonder what the R value of each is.
I (2-10-05) bought a 2002 F350 CC SWD PSD and a new 2003 Citation 10'8. Rancho 9000X & Toyo M55's.I have been a tent camper all my life. I wanted more comfort while doing my Willamette Backcountry Ski Patrol & Crater Lake Ski Patrol duties.11
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GULFMAN
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Thanks for the replys
So would it be better not to use the the camp ground water outlet and just put some water in your fresh water tank.Can you use your water heater?
Gary
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Troutguy
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GULFMAN wrote:Thanks for the replys
So would it be better not to use the the camp ground water outlet and just put some water in your fresh water tank.Can you use your water heater?
Gary
Don't use the outside hose hookup unless you can keep water flowing through it all the time or it will freeze........just fill your on board water tank.
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The reason for not leaving the CG water hooked up is to keep the hose from freezing and possibly bursting. I use those faucet covers on all my low point drains and to cover my city water inlet. I have a piece of 1" thick styrofoam cut to a press fit that I use inside the outside shower door to keep it from freezing. I'm not sure that bat insulation wouldn't work better but I've been in 8ºF and been fine.
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I have been thinking of using my truck camper a little this winter for short excursions. I don't think I will use the water tanks since it is winterized. I'll just take along a couple of large jugs of water and work out of those. No showers but could still heat water in a kettle on the stove and wash up.
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