4 season travel Trailers?
Hello, new to this site. I am in Colorado and searching for a small used Travel trailer. I am hearing that for cold weather use, I would need a so-called 4 season, or specially insulated on the unde...
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The windows need to be double glazed, too. Modifying a standard rig to those specs would be ridiculously expensive. Better to buy one engineered for it from the start.My cost was about $5K for materials. I donated the labor.
carringb wrote:
FYI - Arctic Fox, Nash, Snow-River, and Dessert Fox are all built at the same Northwoods plant. The same owner has another plant, also in LaGrande OR that build the ORV brands. They all use the same in-house chassis and follow the same methods for 4-season qualification. Mainly: more insulation, no plumbing in exterior walls, insulated and heated underbelly which contains tanks and valves.
Their 4-season package does not however include dual-pane windows. That is a stand-alone option.
By ORV Creekside is good into the teens, but below that I have had trouble with the hot water supply freezing if I don't keep the furnace turned up, or if I use the electric fireplace instead. Since I bought my trailer from dealer stock, I could not order the dual-pane windows and new orders were backlogged a year out.
This is good information.
FWIW, you could copy Pianotuna and place a dual fan register on one of your ducts to force heated air into the basement if using electric mainly.
Of course, when you get into the teens or below for a spell, It's good to have ample heat.
To identify a four-season trailer, there is a 4 season plaque near the entry door.
