Kidoo wrote:
You could buy a propane heater with a direct exhaust through the RV wall, sucking air for burning and taking exhaust out, no condensation at all. It does not use any current and would supplement your system. If you intend to stay there for a while, I would even think at a wood or pellet stove witch uses a small exhaust duct, the smallest one will heat this rig very fast.
I directed some heat duct from the furnace to the basement water area and doubled insulated everything, even if the doors are insulated, I installed a pink foam to close in the water are. I installed a flapper valve in the duct to close or open as needed. I you do not use the RV furnace, you could install a 12 volt fan in the duct itself to direct air from the main floor to the basement.
A big shade drap can be installed between the front area seat and windows to keep heat in where you live. I also installed some closable heat duct to direct air only in the room or only in the living area and I have doors between the living and room area.
As soon as you have snow, just make a big pile around the RV and on the walls as high as you can, it does protec from the cold quite a bit, the inuit way. Some people are putting an insulated pad or bubble wrap OUTSIDE the RV windshield, it blocks the view but apparantly it is better than from the inside and does not create water on the inside windshield.
12 volt heat pad on the bed actually keeps you warm at very low temps. I will also install a thermostat in the room to keep the room at around 50. This way, the heater will only go on when the room is cold and cut off then it is warm enough.
Have a nice winter
I have been thinking of doing a modification to the RV to allow for the quick connect ability to an external pellet heater. I can mount a small pellet heater on a small trailer for moving it and have a port where you just plug in to the RV when you need to use it. Probably not going to get that done this winter but seriously will be looking at doing this in the spring.
Right now using the main furnace and the ceramic heater at night, we are doing just fine so it is not critical. I am actually surprised at how nice things have been in here based one a lot of comments I got from many people around, not just here on the site. 80% of them were adamant this was not a good idea and we would have so many issues that it was going to be rough and cold. The one thing I did though when I knew this was what we had to do was plan things out and take steps to really winterize this thing for comfort. So far it has not been an issue but we still need to see how things go with temps in the negative range eventually..
I have some plans for that as well including additional heat tape/lines and such since I do not plan on waiting for things to freeze or break when the temps drop that low.
