Water Heater Froze

Bobbo wrote:

doxiemom11 wrote:
We always leave our water heater on so there is hot water whenever we want it.

+1 when we have electric. On propane, not so much.

Same here. Propane for when we are going to be using a lot of hot water, electric the rest of the time.

I've not winterized this winter, and so far so good.
Water heater electric on has always equaled not frozen hot water.

doxiemom11 wrote:
We always leave our water heater on so there is hot water whenever we want it.

+1 when we have electric. On propane, not so much.

We always leave our water heater on so there is hot water whenever we want it.

I discovered a forum/BB several years ago for RV Techs. I reckon it was private or professional. Anyways, I saw the discussion on the circuit cards for RV waterheaters and furnaces.

During the discussion of merits of one brand vs the other it came out that a majority of "their" service calls required the cleaning of the board only. "Cleaning the dust bunnies out from under the componenets".

At the last job I used this information for keeping my furnace and the furnaces of several co-workers and one waterheater going without calling out a service man.

I was just very careful with the tooth brush and canned air while cleaning.

It probably did not hurt that I used to be an avionics tech on F-4 Phantoms either.:)
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Water heaters are sitting well exposed to weather. The air goes through the burner for combustion and cold air will follow the same path. I have always run the water heater to get hot water and next morning it was still warm so it didn't freeze. That was at 10F.

I could not leave MI till Thanksgiving.. The problem is my water heater control board crapped on me and would only do electric, no propane. Quickly traced the problem to the board (This took me about 2 minutes).

My daughter graduated Armstrong Atlantic University Master's program last week, I told her i had to do the 490 mile turn around from where I am to there and back without overnighting cause my budget was too tight.. She commented that I've been saying i'm much better off money wise than a year ago (I am) but you knwo,, the 182 bucks for the control board would have paid for a first class hotel for a night.

The water heater in my MH isn't in the basement. The water heater outlet and inlet go into the basement. Leaving water heater on creates enough heat to prevent problems. If full hookups I leave water heater on electric all night.

To have the basement heated you have to run the furance. We have a funance duct that runs down to the basement for that reason. But if you are using electric heaters then no heat will be sent to the basement. You can in some cases run a small electic heater in the basement to keep it warm, just be carful with how you place it and whats in the basement that may need to be removed (charcoal fluid)

I would have hoped the heat in the bsmt would have taken care of it. Well, most RVs are 3 season units, and it takes vigilance to get out in winter. For a learning moment, it sounds like you got off easy.