sjholt
Henderson, NV
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You guys are talking about winterizing? In the middle of summer?
Come on- wait a while......
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brobox
Sunny SW. Florida
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I lived in Colorado with below zero temps every winter. The only thing I added pink stuff to was the "P" traps. Blowing the lines and using the MH for weekend ski trips worked great for 20 years. Never had a broken water line or HW heater problem from using compressed air.
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7th Cav
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I just blow the lines out and use the pink stuff for the p traps. I dump the tanks at the end to make sure that there is no standing water in the dump valve.
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Bob&Billye
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I loved it cableguy. Tis fun to have some humor sometimes. Actually winterizign is used like hurricanizing....but in this case we dont have to flee or tie down our rigs. Have a safe and wonderful journey in life....bob
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campercajun
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I used to blow my lines out with 75-100 lbs. of pressure, leaving at least one faucet or valve open at a time, of course (I have a commercial-duty air compressor), even blowing the air out the low point drains, one at a time. Then, on one of our trailers, I decided one winter, after blowing the lines out, to pump antifreeze into the lines to see how hard it would be. I was shocked at the amount of pure water that ran out of each spigot before the antifreeze started flowing at each faucet. I no longer depend on just blowing out the lines; I always winterize now.
My next door neighbor paid the price for not using antifreeze last winter, in a trailer I used to own (the one in which I discovered how much water was still in the lines after blowing them out). Borrowing my air hose, he blew out the lines but did not winterize the trailer with antifreeze last winter.
When he arrived at the campground on their first outing this spring, he hooked up the water supply and turned on the campsite faucet. Since he is hard of hearing, and does not always wear his hearing aid, he was unaware until minutes later, when he noticed water running out the bottom of his trailer, that he had a massive leak. Ice had expanded and pushed a 90 degree fitting completely off the interior water line and cracked the outside shower fixture. The trailer floor was soaked from front to back, water soaked up into the luan on the walls and into wood trim, staining them, and had gotten into the furnace and all the cabinets and bins connected to the floor. The kitchen sink cabinet and countertop were ruined, as was part of the floor.
His insurance company shelled out over $6000 to repair this 25' trailer, after his deductible. The worst part of it was that he was without the trailer for nearly 2 months while it was at the dealer's being repaired, during the best camping time of the year. He sold the trailer to his son after it was repaired, and bought a new one. He has already installed a winterizing kit in it.
RV antifreeze is indeed, cheap insurance.
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mtrumpet
Hamburg, NY
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I do both - blow out all the lines then pump them ALL full of anti-freeze - a LOT of it. I want to be sure that there's no water hiding out in the plumbing over winter. The cost of the Anti-freeze is cheap compared to the time and aggravation of a plumbing repair that I'd have to do.
I know. I had to do it one spring...P.I.T.A.!!
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cordertx
Bedford, TX
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You didn't say if you have an ice maker, but of you do, blow out the ice maker water valve as well. Failure to do so can be an expensive mess.
Happy camping.
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jorn
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I forgot the p-traps one winter. I'll never do that again! (Hint: crackitude)
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chowchowone
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After many years of using the pink stuff I decided to just blow the lines out. Ya sure ya betcha, this spring I had leaks from my leaks. Pink stuff for me here in MN next time.
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427435
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chowchowone wrote:After many years of using the pink stuff I decided to just blow the lines out. Ya sure ya betcha, this spring I had leaks from my leaks. Pink stuff for me here in MN next time.
How much pressure were you using and did you only have ONE faucet on at a time (other than when you were changing the faucet/line that you were blowing out)?
Mark
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