I realize this is a stretch but maybe someone has had similar problems. I have cold water in Bathroom but no hot water. I have niehter in the kitchen and water does not appear to be pressurizing the hot water tank. As you can see I have a 2007 Gulf Stream MH. I am living on it through the week and temps have been plunging to 7 F and 14 F last night. Any idea where to look for the frozen area. I thought maybe there is a usual area. Tonight will be even colder with wind. I am in Toronto area. Other than that cozy!
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Brad & Linda
Two boys and a dog.
Windsor, Ontario
2007 35ft Gulf Stream Yellowstone
Country Club V10 gas
The first ghing I would do is open all of the cabinet foors and let some warm ait get to the pipes. I would turn the thermostat up to about 80 and wait. If you have a basement you might crawl in there with a hair dryer and heat up what pipes you can see. Good luck
are you running off the tank or a hose? Sounds to me like you are froze before it gets to the tank. get some heat on it asap. and if your running off hose, disconect when tank is full when below freezing. your gonna be real lucky if a frozen pipes is all you have. if they are froze that hard, theres probably a bust somewhere.
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That's a tough one. But if I was to wager a SWAG, I would say the cold input line prior to the water heater. Somewhere in that line must be a split that runs water to the bathroom sink which is still OK.
When I've had pipes freeze, it can be in more then one spot. It can also be along the whole pipe depending on how cold it got. If during the day it thaws out, I would drain the whole system before tonight. If you can blow them out all the better. Pipes can only freeze so many times before things start to break.
Not familiar with your coach design layout but I have experienced the same situation. On my coach, thru process of "lets try this" I was able to isolate how to prevent this from happening. I run a small ceramic heater in the compartment where my water pump is. I've had it freeze up before even though the manufacturer says there is basement heat. Secondly, my Hot Water tank is on the opposite side of the coach from the water pump. The design of our coach, in the water heater area, allows a second ceramic heater. I found that solves the issue but yet creates a second issue. That is, not enough AMPS to run everything inside the living area of the coach and have two ceramic heaters running in the basement on a 50 amp system. To solve this issue, I "borrow" power separately from another campsite to run the two ceramic heaters. Winter camping where we are, theres usually no fool, like us, that likes to RV in the snow. HA!
Good luck
I would also go looking for the frozen pipe using the hair drier.
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I wired and extra duplex outlet in the beedroom for a extra heater. This outlet is wired like an extion cord to the water bay were I have the plug on the other end. If cold camping I just plug in the extra cord in to the twenty amp on the pole. This way I take fifteen amps off my twenty amp service. This in on the twenty amp braker and so far I have not fused it in the MH.
teeznu wrote: Not familiar with your coach design layout but I have experienced the same situation. On my coach, thru process of "lets try this" I was able to isolate how to prevent this from happening. I run a small ceramic heater in the compartment where my water pump is. I've had it freeze up before even though the manufacturer says there is basement heat. Secondly, my Hot Water tank is on the opposite side of the coach from the water pump. The design of our coach, in the water heater area, allows a second ceramic heater. I found that solves the issue but yet creates a second issue. That is, not enough AMPS to run everything inside the living area of the coach and have two ceramic heaters running in the basement on a 50 amp system. To solve this issue, I "borrow" power separately from another campsite to run the two ceramic heaters. Winter camping where we are, theres usually no fool, like us, that likes to RV in the snow. HA!
Good luck
We have the same problem but I don't know if your's in the same. Our culprit is the kitchen on the slide. From the outside under the slide we can actually see the lines! Hopefully your slide is sealed and well insulated, if not...you may need to do as we do: when temp is below 20 -- pull in slide, put light bulb under that area in the lower bay, maybe one small elect. heater in the bay near the water heater, put light bulb in water utililty bay,open cabinet doors and keep furnace set to be comfortable. A light bulb works well and uses less amps than a heater so you can use more of them.
I also agree to not keep your hose connected when really cold, run off your pumps & tank, fill as needed then drain and stow the hose.
I know all this is inconvenient and not the way we are supposed to be able to live in an RV. However very few coaches can really take cold temps without problems.
We live fulltime in our coach in the high plains -- it's been a long winter! We've had to do all that I've described -- all winter! Therefore it for us it doesn't matter that we have a nice big slide -- we've living pulled in about 1/2 the time all winter. One day we hope to have the manufacturer try to find a solution to our problem or we will have to try to do it ourselves or trade coaches or never be out in it in winter. But ours was the 1st year of this model rig and they made mistakes..in later years they changed the design!
sowego wrote: We have the same problem but I don't know if your's in the same. Our culprit is the kitchen on the slide. From the outside under the slide we can actually see the lines! Hopefully your slide is sealed and well insulated, if not...you may need to do as we do: when temp is below 20 -- pull in slide, put light bulb under that area in the lower bay, maybe one small elect. heater in the bay near the water heater, put light bulb in water utililty bay,open cabinet doors and keep furnace set to be comfortable. A light bulb works well and uses less amps than a heater so you can use more of them.
I also agree to not keep your hose connected when really cold, run off your pumps & tank, fill as needed then drain and stow the hose.
I know all this is inconvenient and not the way we are supposed to be able to live in an RV. However very few coaches can really take cold temps without problems.
We live fulltime in our coach in the high plains -- it's been a long winter! We've had to do all that I've described -- all winter! Therefore it for us it doesn't matter that we have a nice big slide -- we've living pulled in about 1/2 the time all winter. One day we hope to have the manufacturer try to find a solution to our problem or we will have to try to do it ourselves or trade coaches or never be out in it in winter. But ours was the 1st year of this model rig and they made mistakes..in later years they changed the design!
I hope you find a solution to your problem.
The water hose is wrapped with heat strip/ foam pipe insulation and the water line in the park is below frost line. Unique setup. That has not been an issue I am still looking. got afew drips and hot as hell in here!
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