Slide outs in cold weather

Thank you guys very much for the reply.

If you have toppers I would leave them in as twice I have had a great deal of trouble getting slices in with ice and snow on them. At 20 I would leave mine in as the RV will heat much better

tomman58 wrote:
Slides are not insulated well so thinking you will be using the furnace they should dry out and any snow melted off of them. Their motors, screw drives are all under the unit out of the weather. We never have cared about cold other then we don't want to camp in it but it is a factor in late fall going across the USA.

Typically it is only the floor and roof of a slide that is poorly insulated, the roof is about an 1-1/2” thick, but otherwise no worse than the rest of the trailer.

Slides are not insulated well so thinking you will be using the furnace they should dry out and any snow melted off of them. Their motors, screw drives are all under the unit out of the weather. We never have cared about cold other then we don't want to camp in it but it is a factor in late fall going across the USA.

It is okay, but if it rains, turns to ice, could be an issue to close. If you plan to leave in morning, before temp warms up, I'd put slides in before freezing temps.

Slides may operate slower, due to cold, but if no snow, or ice, should not be a problem.

Jerry