Wow, seems like a lot of work for a few degrees below freezing for a couple of hours. Leave the heat on as low as it goes, open cabinets if u want to. Pipes must freeze solid before they break, and I don't think that's going to happen at those temps. Just my $.02.
I have 56 right now and high today is supposed to be a few degrees wamer. Tonight down in mid to upper 20's. Tommorow around 50. It really depends on the actual layout of the plumbing. I would open all facuts and low point drains to get as much water as you can out of the system. This should leave enough room for expansion if water started to slush up or freeze. Chances are that the trailer would retain enough heat from the day to keep the inside above freezing during the night. Randu
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If you don't plan on using it for a while you might as well winterize. If your like me and need to use it as soon as possible drain the low points, drain the water heater, and leave some heat on.
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If you have easy access and it is not in a storage area somewhere away from where you are, I would turn on the heat, open up cabinet doors to plumbing areas and run water from each faucet last thing before going to bed and again first thing in the morning. I really doubt it will get cold enough to freeze solid and a little movement in the water supply lines will make a big difference. A hard sided trailer will usually be ok down to about 20 but a hybrid might get little colder.
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Congrats on your new HTT. Here is the correct answer. You just brought it home. Dont you want to play in it. Play camp back yard. Run an extension cord to it. Fire up the furnace, bring in some beverages, snacks, paper and pen. Sit back, relax, and start making that supply list up. Fire up the HWH, fire up the oven, make sure everything works to your satisfaction. Grab the sleeping bag and an alarm clock (just in case you have to work the next day) Heck, use the bathroom. A brown trout isnt going to hurt anything sitting in your tank for a couple of weeks, especially in cool weather. most of all....Have fun.
We here in west Michigan (gr) got down to about 30 inland. 37 in Holland. I have already de-winterized 3 weeks ago. I'm not to concerned about it. It takes a real long hard freeze to get things frosty.
Ive been caught of guard in the past by below freezing temps early in the spring after I already charged my sprinkler system. No issues.
Winterizing and de-winterizing is a pain in the butt! 10 hours of high 20's is not going to be a "hard freeze". Where is the RV? Is it hooked up to electric? Can you just turn on the inside heat for one night?
If you expect freezing temps for the next few nights or a week, OK, winterize, but for one night, look for an alternative! Don't do nothing, but even placing a space heater under the RV will add that little bit of heat needed for high 20's for 10 hours, and it is a lot less work than winterizing and de-winterizing later!
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DE88ROX wrote: We here in west Michigan (gr) got down to about 30 inland. 37 in Holland. I have already de-winterized 3 weeks ago. I'm not to concerned about it. It takes a real long hard freeze to get things frosty.
Ive been caught of guard in the past by below freezing temps early in the spring after I already charged my sprinkler system. No issues.
I am in Holland and it is 34F right now. They were forecasting a chance of snow for tonight. On Mondays is when the grass people come to mow. They also do snow. Either way they will work. Tulip Time begins next weekend.
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Thanks for all the ideas. We learned a bunch from all of this. The dealer did not cover all of this in a lot of detail or at least my feeble mind probably parked it for a later time.
What we did was to drain the water out of the tanks, water heater and lines. I used a blow plug to get the water out of the lines. I learned about where the various valves were for the water heater. So when next winter comes I have at least done most of the process. Decided not to use any of the antifreeze.
It looks like it will be close to freezing the next couple of nights.
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