Leaving MH

If it's winter, we turn the furnaces to around 60. If it's summer, we turn the AC's to around 78. Any season, we turn the water off. Have seen too many MH's next to us with no occupants with water pouring out of their basements because of a leak.

We've left cats for up to a week and they had no problem surviving.

Just the water

hitchup wrote:
If it's winter, we turn the furnaces to around 60. If it's summer, we turn the AC's to around 78. Any season, we turn the water off. Have seen too many MH's next to us with no occupants with water pouring out of their basements because of a leak.

We've left cats for up to a week and they had no problem surviving.

I bet their litter box was nice and ripe when you returned. It's one thing for them to survive and another for them to be cared for.

We were gone 2 weeks. Shut off the water and the water heater. Colder out, so we left furnace set on 50.

If we are going to be gone all day I roll up the awning, turn off the water if we have hookups or turn off the water pump if no hookups. We only turn the water heater on if we are going to need it. If we are using an electric heater we unplug it. If we are using the furnace, very rare, we turn it off. Usually we would turn the AC off.

If we were away for more than a day we would turn everything off. We don't winter camp.

The only thing we do is close the awning if the weather is predicting winds. Sometimes I will close it even if the weather is nice.

Water off, porch light on, awning in, H/AC set.

rockylarson wrote:
Water off, porch light on, awning in, H/AC set.

X2, and sometimes chairs, tables and such stowed and locked.

BuckBarker wrote:

hitchup wrote:
If it's winter, we turn the furnaces to around 60. If it's summer, we turn the AC's to around 78. Any season, we turn the water off. Have seen too many MH's next to us with no occupants with water pouring out of their basements because of a leak.

We've left cats for up to a week and they had no problem surviving.

I bet their litter box was nice and ripe when you returned. It's one thing for them to survive and another for them to be cared for.

Not if they used the proper litter. A week is nothing for Worlds Best Cat Litter! Unbelievable cat litter, it is the best I've found, and it does what it says it does!

When I close up my rig for the week, here is what I do:

1: Awning up (it has been up since the PDI, so that's not an issue, usually.) Texas can get pretty high gusts pretty quickly in the winter, so I don't want to risk it.

2: Water pump off, water disconnected (if connected), water heater off, and lines depressurized. This way, if there is a leak, it happens where I'm there.

3: The usual check (bedroom sliding door open, all lights out, vent fan off, vent cover closed, radio off, stove off, windows shut.)

4: Refrigerator emptied out and airing cards placed in so it gets air circulation.

5: Cables stowed, double check on windows, power inlets and water inlets, as well as doors and access panels locked.

6: Battery disconnected. Propane tanks turned off at the valves.

If I have access to any electrical, I leave the batteries and propane connected, hook up an 8 amp Battery Minder to the bank, set the furnace to 40, and call it done. If I don't, I blow out the lines and pour some type of safe antifreeze (cheap vodka or RV antifreeze, whatever costs less) down traps/drains.