I just picked up a 2006 25' prowler. I will be using it mostly for work where it can get as cold as -10 celsius in the winter. I've been using a camper in the past few years and had no problem staying warm with an electric space heater and propane furnace. I want to set the travel-trailer up as best I can for the winter. The campground does not have a water hook-up in the winter but it does have electricity and sewer. Any tips would be greatly appreciated. I'm also wondering what to do for a skirting. Should I make my own and what is the best way?
We boondock on our property and we have to tote in our own water. Here's what we use Water Bladder
To keep warm when we winter camp, we use flannel sheets. Another thing you might consider getting is an electric mattress pad. Turn it on a few minutes before you get into bed and it will warm up the flannel sheets and be toasty warm!
Good luck!
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Make storm windows either using the shrink plastic temporary kits you can find in building supply stores or have plexi-glass cut to fit and a foam seal again from a building supply store and hold them in place with mirror fasteners. I have usedReflectix to line the trunk area and all other hidden storage areas on outside walls including the backs of closets. It's easy to cut to fit and staple or hot glue in place. Your supply and waste tanks are another matter. Not knowing if your trailer is equipped with an enclosed and insulated underbelly or heated tanks, check outUltraheat . For skirting, foam insulation boards glued to some exterior plywood and cut to fit and held in place with stakes (suggest re-bar). And in low temps as you experience, a small heater with a thermostat underneath. JMHO
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Having skimmed over a few threads on the subject of cold weather RVing, I am surprised that nobody has suggested the cheapest freeze prevention for the holding tank.
Having used our MHs & TTs in the past, during the winters in Ontario and Quebec on a part time basis, we used water cans for drinking and washing up but, of course, had to use the holding tank for the toilet.
ROCK SALT!! Put it in the tank through the toilet, about a pound per 10 gallons, and it didn't freeze at 0 degrees F in an exposed tank. Colder? More salt.
Now we are fulltiming and will take delivery on our new HitchHiker II this week, so we're researching the options for 4 season living in Alberta when our traveling days are over or, having a Mum in her 90s, if we have to make an unplanned midwinter trek north for obvious reasons.
Our HHII is well insulated and tanks are ducted, plus the underbelly panels have Astrofoil lining, but we think heat pads and more Astrofoil in the right places will be a good investment, as will Dow foam insulation overhead in the cargo bays.
Sitting in Kansas for the past 3 weeks in our soon to be "previous" TT , waiting for our new HHII, has made us very conscious of the problems of winter RV living. We may be from the Great White North, but "from" is the operative word. We don't like the cold and will be snowbirds for as long as we can.
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