Need a little winter camping advice please

Use your water tank, not a hose. And NO water dripping! Use your waste tanks and don't leave a sewer hose out with water in it. Use your furnace and keep the WH on. And don't be stingy with the propane.

2oldman wrote:
Use your water tank, not a hose. And NO water dripping! Use your waste tanks and don't leave a sewer hose out with water in it. Use your furnace and keep the WH on. And don't be stingy with the propane.

Agreed. A couple of small ceramic space heaters will help conserve propane, assuming shore power is available. A hair dryer might be handy for carefully thawing a known frozen pipe. Make sure your hot water heater is always working. A little venting, like a small opening of the bathroom hatch, will help, but not prevent, condensation.

Lotsa propane...

Will you have electric hookup?

“I was told it had heated tanks”

Famous last words that can cost thousands in the RV world. Verify whether you do or not.

I would fill my freshwater tank and remove the city water hose from both the camper and the campground faucet.

Keep the hot water heater on.

In your situation, that's all I would do.

I'm assuming you'll be in a campground.

I helps also to keep cabinet doors open where water lines are located.
This allows heat from the interior to circulate around lines to help keep them from freezing.
Barney

Check the propane every day. And check it at least an hour before the propane store closes.

Thanks, yes we will be at a full hook-up campground. So just keep the fresh water tank always at like 3/4 full and no exterior hoses.

If this is to be the last trip of the season, take along what you will need to winterize the RV.

There is an excellent thread under the full time forum called "winter camping".

What to do about condensation?

The cause of the condensation is the walls are below the dew point temperature. If the walls can be made warm enough the problem disappears. Running a fan to circulate air may help to raise the temperature on the surface of the wall.

One other solution is to reduce the relative humidity inside the RV.

The easiest way to do that is to open a roof vent a bit, find the furthest window from the vent and open that a bit. An electric heater near the window will improve that and keep you warmer. I'd suggest a low wattage radiant type, or a small oil filled (if the oil filled can be on a shelf so the air from the window passes over the fins.)

I know opening a vent and window when it is cold seems counter intuitive, but it does work.

Another possible solution is an electric dehumidifier--but the cooler it is the poorer they work. They are generally energy hogs, some what bulky and definitely noisy.

My water heater is empty right now so I guess I’ll hook up city water, let the water heater fill and then disconnect and fill the fresh water tank up like half way.