Winter storage in cold climate

rich85704 wrote:
...... anything else I should anticipate?

Critters.

I'm paying $175 a month for outside. If I could get covered for slightly more, I'd do that. A few hundred for a cover every 3 or 4 years should make the extra for covered storage a wash.

Rodent prevention is the biggest worry other than freezing pipes. Seal up any place they can get in with expanding foam and use Sniff 'n Stop or Fresh Cab to drive them away. These products overwhelm their sense of smell and if they can't smell predators they leave.

Don't forgot to winterize the outside shower tap and blow air through the city water check valve.

Nope, winterize it, pull the batteries, cover it, walk away. That’s about all you can dooo. Critters don’t care whether it’s open, covered, or in a shop.
Snow load is a (minor) concern. But not much of one on the front range save for those freak blizzards every ??? Years.

I pay $10 a foot including the hitch for indoor storage. So when we had our 24 foot toy hauler +4 foot hitch we paid $280 for the whole winter, put it in end of October take it out of storage in March.

We have stored previous trailers outdoors......never again.
Our present rig is stored indoors..what a difference, but I do hate paying for it.

We live near Longmont. We just store ours outside at our home, and we have a mobile tech come to winterize it for us. Sure, indoors would be nicer but that's not an option just yet for us. Some of our neighbors utilize covers to help with the elements, we haven't gotten one yet but have been thinking about it. IMO, the sun here does a lot more damage than the winter weather. We've had our unit a bit over a year and we can already see some affects of the sun, like on the tires and caulking on the side that faces south. We've also had no problem with rodents with this unit or our last one that was also parked outside, but we also have dogs that run in the yard, and regular pest control service for the house that includes rodents.

There's lots of RV dealers in Longmont so you could have one of them winterize it too, we use Windish because we purchased our unit there.

Oh also, be sure you remove anything from inside that could expand if it freezes... stuff like dish soap, shampoo, things like that. I got to clean up a fun mess this spring of an "exploded" body wash container in the bathroom cabinet. Smells good still though haha!

You should remove the battery also.

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I pay $10 a foot including the hitch for indoor storage. So when we had our 24 foot toy hauler +4 foot hitch we paid $280 for the whole winter, put it in end of October take it out of storage in March.

Maybe in Arkansas or Wisconsisota.
Places where the economy is strong (like Denver where the thread is about), $280 would get you a month or 2 of indoor storage.

Grit dog wrote:

Sprink-Fitter wrote:
I pay $10 a foot including the hitch for indoor storage. So when we had our 24 foot toy hauler +4 foot hitch we paid $280 for the whole winter, put it in end of October take it out of storage in March.

Maybe in Arkansas or Wisconsisota.
Places where the economy is strong (like Denver where the thread is about), $280 would get you a month or 2 of indoor storage.

The economy is very good here, I work construction and we have never been busier.

My storage is at our county fair grounds, it is just in the winter months.