To winterize or not?

Bumpyroad wrote:

NC Hauler wrote:

I'm a firm believe in, "Better safe than sorry" as another poster stated....I have a 39' 5er with 4 slides....I drain the 10 gallon water heater, put it in by-pass and blow the lines out, then I put the RV antifreeze in all traps....takes all of 10 minutes to do what I it..

out of curiosity, why do you bother messing with the wh bypass if you aren't using antifreeze? not enough volume out of the air compressor?
bumpy

I alway's drain the hot water heater if 5er is going to set for a bit in the cold, guess I put it in by-pass out of habit...also don't see any sense in running air through the entire system and filling hot water heater up with air, possibly causing an issue with that....I run air compressor at about 35 psi....Run all the water out of the piping, turn air off and check once again by opening all faucets and flushing commode again to make sure I don't leave any air in the system. Again, just habit I guess. When I winterize, once the camper is going to set from Dec thru Feb or so, I will run antifreeze thru system, again, of course, leaving hot water heater in by-pass....hot water heater will be completely empty...