Brand New to owning a travel trailer HELP!!
So I just bought a 1997 wilderness. I can't find my furnace. Finally found the fuse box watching a youtube video. I am totally lost. Got the owners manuel emailed to me by Fleetwood, but no schematics...
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What is written above by many posters is true...mostly.
There are people who live in RV's in North Dakota, the Yukon and Alaska in the winter. BUT they have taken some extraordinary steps to insulate and heat the undersides.
What you are proposing in surely possible but not easy and it will cost you several hundred dollars most likely to insulate it to be livable.
You might, if possible, think about using some of that money to get it to Arizona or Fla (Arizona is much cheaper living)instead of staying in Mich. But of course if you have a job that wont be possible.
To give you an idea of what is involved I insulated the underside of my trailer two years ago and the storage compartments (this is key as a lot of cold air gets in there)just before a trip to Alaska in March.
This project took me a week. On my back under the trailer and crawling out a thousand times. And I did it in Tucson where it was nice and warm at the time.
To stay in a Michigan winter you will definitely need to insulate the underside, all of the storage compartments AND put a skirt around the underside AND heat that with at least a heat lamp to keep your pipes from freezing.
You can buy waterbed heaters to put on your waste tanks to keep them from freezing and enclose them also.
And as already mentioned you will need a heated water hose or bring ALL of your water in by bottle.
As you can see this will not be cheap in electrical terms.
I assume you understand your situation better than any of us can and it really isnt any of our business...but if there is another way open to you I would give serious consideration to that.
Fogged windows and condensation will be the LEAST of your troubles.
Good Luck.
There are people who live in RV's in North Dakota, the Yukon and Alaska in the winter. BUT they have taken some extraordinary steps to insulate and heat the undersides.
What you are proposing in surely possible but not easy and it will cost you several hundred dollars most likely to insulate it to be livable.
You might, if possible, think about using some of that money to get it to Arizona or Fla (Arizona is much cheaper living)instead of staying in Mich. But of course if you have a job that wont be possible.
To give you an idea of what is involved I insulated the underside of my trailer two years ago and the storage compartments (this is key as a lot of cold air gets in there)just before a trip to Alaska in March.
This project took me a week. On my back under the trailer and crawling out a thousand times. And I did it in Tucson where it was nice and warm at the time.
To stay in a Michigan winter you will definitely need to insulate the underside, all of the storage compartments AND put a skirt around the underside AND heat that with at least a heat lamp to keep your pipes from freezing.
You can buy waterbed heaters to put on your waste tanks to keep them from freezing and enclose them also.
And as already mentioned you will need a heated water hose or bring ALL of your water in by bottle.
As you can see this will not be cheap in electrical terms.
I assume you understand your situation better than any of us can and it really isnt any of our business...but if there is another way open to you I would give serious consideration to that.
Fogged windows and condensation will be the LEAST of your troubles.
Good Luck.
