anybody use auto antifreeze in your drains
Already winterized with the pink stuff and nothing left. Had a skylight leak over the shower that dumped some water in the shower pan and now temps are gonna drop to hard freeze levels. Don't really...
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Please be careful!
Auto antifreeze is poison to wastewater treatment systems. If you must have an emergency antifreeze, use salt water at saturation rates of 26%. It will give freeze protection to 0 deg. F
A pound of ice melter salt dissolved in 3 qts. hot water will thaw most ice plugs in drains.
The OP has learned the hard way that trickling water can prevent freezing of supply, but at what cost? How many hundreds of gallons of water were wasted trying to keep water running only to have it freeze up the waste pipe and flood the rig.
Now the flooring, underbelly insulation are compromized with the moisture.
RV cold weather# 101. do not trickle. It causes more trouble than it solves.
Auto antifreeze is poison to wastewater treatment systems. If you must have an emergency antifreeze, use salt water at saturation rates of 26%. It will give freeze protection to 0 deg. F
A pound of ice melter salt dissolved in 3 qts. hot water will thaw most ice plugs in drains.
The OP has learned the hard way that trickling water can prevent freezing of supply, but at what cost? How many hundreds of gallons of water were wasted trying to keep water running only to have it freeze up the waste pipe and flood the rig.
Now the flooring, underbelly insulation are compromized with the moisture.
RV cold weather# 101. do not trickle. It causes more trouble than it solves.
