"mid price" monaco in the winter?
I'm giving serious thought to holding off winterizing as long as possible, perhaps all winter long.
Rig is an '08 monaco, rr8r chassis 40 footer. The knight is similar if not identical to ambassadors, endeavers, and diplomats from about '05 on.
The tanks are stacked, gray and black atop the fresh water, directly in front of the rear wheels, and behind the open propane bay. There is a small electric heater in the wet bay, and the rear furnace is directly above the other end, I assume providing some heat to the tanks?
The front furnace is in the kitchen slideout, hopefully providing some heat to the plumbing?
A concern is the main water filter, on the pass side in the bay ahead of the wet bay, no visible source of heat there, but there is a 120 v outlet.
Does anyone have experience running a coach like this in a midwestern winter?
We will have to deal with temps down below zero sometimes, below freezing often, daily highs below freezing sometimes.
We can guarantee we won't run out of propane.
We have shore power, and if that fails, autogen start.
We would not live in the rig, and wouldn't be out there everyday.
Last year, I chickened out, dumped 100 gallons of water in the dirt thanksgiving weekend and filled her with the yucky red stuff. Felt like a fool for wasting all that good camping time, especially come springg, there was plenty of good weather before they turned the water back on in the park.
Am I nuts to try to keep her running all winter?
Rig is an '08 monaco, rr8r chassis 40 footer. The knight is similar if not identical to ambassadors, endeavers, and diplomats from about '05 on.
The tanks are stacked, gray and black atop the fresh water, directly in front of the rear wheels, and behind the open propane bay. There is a small electric heater in the wet bay, and the rear furnace is directly above the other end, I assume providing some heat to the tanks?
The front furnace is in the kitchen slideout, hopefully providing some heat to the plumbing?
A concern is the main water filter, on the pass side in the bay ahead of the wet bay, no visible source of heat there, but there is a 120 v outlet.
Does anyone have experience running a coach like this in a midwestern winter?
We will have to deal with temps down below zero sometimes, below freezing often, daily highs below freezing sometimes.
We can guarantee we won't run out of propane.
We have shore power, and if that fails, autogen start.
We would not live in the rig, and wouldn't be out there everyday.
Last year, I chickened out, dumped 100 gallons of water in the dirt thanksgiving weekend and filled her with the yucky red stuff. Felt like a fool for wasting all that good camping time, especially come springg, there was plenty of good weather before they turned the water back on in the park.
Am I nuts to try to keep her running all winter?
