Frozen pipes!

If you fill your fresh tank and put the utility hose away you should be fine.

PcolaCamper wrote:

mockturtle wrote:
I always disconnect the water hose if there's a chance of freezing.

We just got careless, but will do that from now on. The temps the night before didn't get as cold as predicted. We just connected a new hose and water inside is running fine so I doubt the pipes froze. Lesson learned! Thanks again to all of you for the help and advice.

If you left your sewer hose out too, it probably is shot, they don't do well in that cold weather.....they just fall apart in your hands
In that weather use the tanks and no hose...Chuck

PcolaCamper wrote:

mockturtle wrote:
I always disconnect the water hose if there's a chance of freezing.

We just got careless, but will do that from now on. The temps the night before didn't get as cold as predicted. We just connected a new hose and water inside is running fine so I doubt the pipes froze. Lesson learned! Thanks again to all of you for the help and advice.

I am 100% sure that they didn't you had heat in the trailer, a little hard for the pipes to freeze.

As mentioned before we four season camp in the NW, depending on the weather forecast, and the time to the next trip, I don't drain the WH or or blow the lines unless the overnight temps are going to be below about 28 degrees, this is unheated storage. As long as the day time temps get to about 45 to 50, it won't freeze the lines.

How long does it to make ice cubes (small ones) in your RV refer at even zero degrees??

How did it come out? I would guess your pipes would have been ok, but the hose was probably toast. We've camped there multiple times and usually end up using the tanks. Yellowstone almost never has warm overnight temps, and when it does, that usually means something very bad - as in '88, when it was warm enough for shirtsleeves overnight, but 1/3 of the park was burning!

How times change, we were in Y'stone about this time last summer and it was shorts and short sleeves every night!! I'm going to get one of those multi-wrapped freeze proof hoses for future need!

You have two sets of pipes, Fresh and waste.. Waste water is normally "Contaminated" and generally contaminating water LOWWERS the freezing point so odds are you are safe there.

Fresh water pipes are internal and thus heated to some extent and for that little bit below freezing likewise good there.. Pipes in RV's nearly never burst due to freezing, Connectors however are another story, they do not have give in them.

how to tell if the pipes are leaking... Method one (The easy method)

If you have water in your fresh tank, turn on the water pump, turn off (not in yoru case already done) the outside supply, and usually the pump will run a bit, depending on the pressure in the system anywhere from a second to several minutes.. Then stop. If it stops, and stays stopped. You have no leaks.

That's how I found out I had a leak in my FW this spring when I sanitized the water system. Finally got all the spigots turned off and then the pump would cycle for just a bit periodically. Walked around the outside of the FW to see if there was anything outside turned on and as I was getting into the FW, noticed a bunch of water on the floor coming out from under the sink. Turned out I had left some water in the faucet of the outside sink and the plastic pipe cracked. What a mess, but fortunately only "fresh" water, not gray or black.