We are noobs to the RV life, and decided we would come to Nashville for the New Year from Houston. Thinking we took the proper safety precautions, our pipes froze this morning after our fresh water tank ran out and we were waiting on the maintenance man from the park to come unfreeze our ground faucet since getting in last night. That's a story in itself.We bought a heated hose, unfroze the ground water faucet, and our pipes won't run water. Have both faucets on, turned the furnace up to 70 with no other inside electric heaters to deter the furnace from stopping, and are putting an electric heater to blow in our storage under the front of the fifth wheel. Any other suggestions to unfreeze pipes?? Will what we are doing even work??It is 20 something now, and it is going to get worse so we need to get this taken care of quickly I would think!!

Open lower cabinet doors and blow warm air into cabinets

Hair dryer on the frozen pipes, drain the tank and then winterize until you're back in Texas.

GordonThree wrote:Hair dryer on the frozen pipes, drain the tank and then winterize until you're back in Texas.so, use the antifreeze in the empty tanks and not use them until we are back home? also, our underbelly is bolted in and we can't take it off (that was an issue our rv tech ran into that we didn't know what to do about) so i'm assuming you'd need the underbelly off to have access to the pipes to hair dry them?

Heat tape. If it melts, drain everything, add antifreeze and pray no pipe or tank spilt open. And don’t go to Death Valley in the summer.

Whatever you do, you may want to make it fast... there is no real warming coming your way till the 10 day...SO, it is your grey water holding tank that is froze? Dump a few gallons of RV antifreeze directly down the drains... Might as well do that to the toilet also..

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midnightsadie
Explorer II
Dec 31, 2017
if theres a another store besides CW go there. about a third the price. open all doors that you can, and if you got a hair dryer try right where the water line enters your rv. and the line breaks be ready to shut things down.
fallonator22
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
another thing too, right we are hooked up to the city water with our heated hose and it is on, but the city water faucet was just frozen as well, so should we unhook the water hose and just wait and try to get water flowing through later?? won't that just freeze again b/c it is currently not flowing?? our sinks are wide open right now and we are waiting, but not sure about the city water hook up how everything will affect that?
fallonator22
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
ksg5000 wrote:
You know where the water lines run - open up access to those areas and use hair dryer and/or light bulb to provide some heat in those compartments. Also - when in doubt use your onboard water rather than the campground hookup which has its own freezing issues. Patience is the operative word - things will thaw out.

our hookups are inside our storage, so we did put a heating fan in the storage compartment for the lines that run along there i guess. we have heating fans going inside the cabinets with sinks above them, so hoping that helps.
ksg5000
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
You know where the water lines run - open up access to those areas and use hair dryer and/or light bulb to provide some heat in those compartments. Also - when in doubt use your onboard water rather than the campground hookup which has its own freezing issues. Patience is the operative word - things will thaw out.
fallonator22
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
ford truck guy wrote:
Whatever you do, you may want to make it fast... there is no real warming coming your way till the 10 day...

SO, it is your grey water holding tank that is froze? Dump a few gallons of RV antifreeze directly down the drains... Might as well do that to the toilet also..

ok, we will go get some from camping world, it is down the street. currently, i'm assuming the grey water tanks are frozen, but they are open. we left them open last night. the black we didn't leave open, but it is not opening. once we restored water i was going to dump some warm water down there to unfreeze the valve to dump.
ford_truck_guy
Nomad
Dec 31, 2017
Whatever you do, you may want to make it fast... there is no real warming coming your way till the 10 day...

SO, it is your grey water holding tank that is froze? Dump a few gallons of RV antifreeze directly down the drains... Might as well do that to the toilet also..
Lwiddis
Explorer II
Dec 31, 2017
Heat tape. If it melts, drain everything, add antifreeze and pray no pipe or tank spilt open. And don’t go to Death Valley in the summer.
fallonator22
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
GordonThree wrote:
Hair dryer on the frozen pipes, drain the tank and then winterize until you're back in Texas.

so, use the antifreeze in the empty tanks and not use them until we are back home? also, our underbelly is bolted in and we can't take it off (that was an issue our rv tech ran into that we didn't know what to do about) so i'm assuming you'd need the underbelly off to have access to the pipes to hair dry them?
GordonThree
Explorer
Dec 31, 2017
Hair dryer on the frozen pipes, drain the tank and then winterize until you're back in Texas.
Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Dec 31, 2017
Open lower cabinet doors and blow warm air into cabinets

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