buying older TT...as tiny home

Terryallan wrote:
Define Western NC. Your idea of mild winters, and my idea of mild winters are two different things. Western NC is the NC mountains, and it gets, and stays durn cold in the NC High Country. Waterfalls freeze, the lakes freeze over, and many places like Boone get a whole lot of snow, and it stays a long time. I have been there many times, and the temp is in the minus. Shoot. I just live in the foothills, and the low teens is NOT unusual, nor is single digits.

IF you are in a trailer in the High Country in the winter. You will use a bunch of propane, and better have heated hoses running to your RV, and heated underbelly.

However. Summer in the High Country is great. AC not needed.

Boone is cold, no question.

milder here around canton...near Asheville.

but yes, teens will happen and even single digits a handful of days in the winter.

I plan to have the trailer winter proofed. There is a sticky on this forum about all that and I've been reading.

plan to use small electric heaters just like what I use to heat my current home of 1700 sq ft. My home has no insulation in the walls, as it was built in 20's.

so I think I have an idea on what the cost will be and how cold it will be. In the winter I wear sweat's inside the house, and I tend to run warm anyways.

I will be using heat tape on lots of stuff I'm sure