freezing weather

I would put a 100 watt, if available bulb in a drop cor with metal housing. Suspend it away from walls etc. It should keep the wet bay from freezing by a good margin.
The furnaces will heat the bays and pipes and some into the wet bay, at least on ours.
Just disconnect the hose to fresh water when below freezing unless it is a heated hose.
I've been ssying for ages we need to buy one of the heated hoses, wil right after it is needed, I guess.

Just unhook the outside water source and operate off of on board tank. Dump a little pink stuff in the drain and toilet to keep holding tank from freezing. If you are warm inside you will most likely not freeze pipes but light bulbs are a good idea. A remote thermostat in wet bay may give you peace of mind.

jonlin wrote:
We are in NC and will be leaving for FL sometime around Christmas. Our forecast is for some mid 20 degree weather next week. If I run the furnace during these cold days will that eliminate my freeze concerns or should I winterize my rig for a couple weeks. I have a 38 foot Newmar Kountry Star. Thanks for your help.

John

RV anti-freeze (the pink stuff) is cheap and EZ to install. took me less than 30-min total to remove the inside water filters, drain the fresh and hot water tanks and pump the pink stuff thru the lines. used a couple of gallons ($5 total). if you have the equipment needed to blow out the lines that would be even easier. we still use the pink stuff as Winnebago told us blowing out the lines could damage our residential fridge.

You also could blew out the line with air. Not long to do and cost nothing but 30 minutes. Put a couple cups of the pink in the traps. If your Newmar is like ours you have heated bays but the furnace does use a lot of propane. As stated light bulbs should work also.

You can protect the inside pipes by running the furnace, but unless you have a heated wet bay, the pipes outside the rig will be exposed. You might be able to just put a heat lamp in the wet bay to get by the few nights we'll have below freezing temps, as long as there are no pipes/lines under the rig that are exposed.