gsf35099 wrote:
Nice organization gents.
John, did you install the insulation on the doors or is that factory? My doors are the same style and I'm thinking that might help me if I install insulation on those.
Thanks,
Kaven
Hi Kaven. The insulation is just block foam and them a couple layers of reflectix. Angela and I are full timers and have been for almost 11 years in this motorhome. Because we are from the great white north there is always the chance that there will be a family or health crisis that causes us to return in the middle of the winter. This already happened once the year my dad passed away. We need to know that we can endure extended temps of minus 20 without a problem. This means a warm basement and reliable back up heat. To this end the extra insulation helps keep the basement and floors warm and the plumbing working. There are two furnaces in our rig both cross plumbed to both the main basement and wet bay. There is a temperature sensor in both the wet bay and the main basement so we always know what the temp is both. The basement has 300 watt zero clearance baseboard heater with thermostat and the wet bay has a 200 watt magnetic block heater that can get wet. Even if the furnaces fail the basement stays warm. There are 300 to 500 watt baseboard heaters through out the coach upstairs as well. We tend to use them as our main source of heat because they are dead quiet and the heat is so even. We also have sub floor heating under our hardwood floors throughout which also makes for warm floors and even heat. Here is an example of a baseboard heater. This one is in the bedroom but there is also one like it in the basement.
The one in the wetbay looks like this. It is 200 watts and attaches to the back of the big metal plate in the wet bay.
Here is 500 watt by the front entrance, typically a cool spot in motorhomes because of the windshield.
Hope this helps.
