PRECAUTIONS WHEN OVERNIGHT IS BELOW FREEZING
We will be camping next weekend and the current weather froecast has the overnight lows at about 30 degrees. Is there any risk of freeze damage.? What precautions should be taken to prevent the possi...
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SDcampowneroperator wrote:Tom N wrote:
I just leave a faucet drip. My water hose has never frozen. I've been down to at least 20 in Crystal River, FL.
Of course you have to have your gray tank valve open if you leave a faucet drip.
-Tom
Tom, a dripping faucet will keep your fresh hose from freezing, but the very slow trickle through the stinky will freeze it up. A 3" icycle. Want to wake up to a n overflowing gray tank and the rig flooded? How about the waste of the water? Conservation of resources is the responsibility of us all. It takes electricity to provide the water, then to treat it.
Please use your fresh tank and pump, you will always have water without wasting or concern of freezing anything.
I have been in the low to mid 20’s for a week or better day and night with the water trickling and never froze the slinky… do it almost every year before I leave to go south… even in those temps the moving water that is still above freezing will flow fine...
now you do need good drainage through the slinky so nothing interrupts the flow…
keep a clear extension or elbow on the outlet and you can easily monitor it for freezing…
