Is the Lance 1121 a four season camper?
We recently looked at a 2002 Lance 1121 and my wife noticed that the waste tank was exposed underneath (great eye). With that she wondered if it was a four season camper. Is it designed for year round...
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Mike Hohnstein,
"Cheesy 1" roof" on a Lance? The roof framing is 1" and there's wood/paneling covering laminated to the frame and then the exterior roof cover over the outside making it 1-1/2" thick plus. Some models/years were even thicker.
While you do not know as you have not been in "COLD" temps, is that we can say from personal experience that the "cheesy 1" roof" as you called it, works just fine even at -20 F and it never sweats inside and the TC furnace only ran/runs less than 1/2 the time even in the real cold -20 F temps with 20+ mph winds. NOTHING ever froze inside the TC's exterior either. Talking about COLD! -20 F is 52 degrees colder than when water will freeze so Lance must be doing something right!
Storm windows and roof vent inside covers or foam inserts are a must at below zero F or they'll drip do to the exhaled moisture laden human breaths. Requires one insulated roof vent to be cracked open about 1/4" to vent the moisture. We've camped dozens of times in the winter in the U.P. of Michigan and also in Ontario, Canada north and east of Lake Superior. Mostly the Wawa, Chapleau, and Ranger Lake areas using as a base. Once at Hearst but that's too far to drive to. We used to pull our snowmobiles up there every winter behind the TC rigs and it was simply our pleasant mobile motel room out in the boonies with no building structures around anywhere and was extremely comfortable living!
BTW, we have our own RV sewer dump we installed behind our home that goes directly into our septic tank so winter dumping is no problem when we get home no matter how cold it gets or if the other dumps stations are closed for the winter. Both holding tanks on the TC become our gray water tank with plenty of capacity if we don't find a dump station open. We use a tall (5 gal) Porta Potti for black water retention with windshield washer fluid with antifreeze good for at least -20F in the rinse tank. Dump anywhere in any toilet and it never freezes hard anyway even at below it's stated temp protection but will begin to get a little slushy. Slushy won't go thru the vehicle windshield washer lines but it sure still works fine in the Porta Potti toilet system!
"Cheesy 1" roof" on a Lance? The roof framing is 1" and there's wood/paneling covering laminated to the frame and then the exterior roof cover over the outside making it 1-1/2" thick plus. Some models/years were even thicker.
While you do not know as you have not been in "COLD" temps, is that we can say from personal experience that the "cheesy 1" roof" as you called it, works just fine even at -20 F and it never sweats inside and the TC furnace only ran/runs less than 1/2 the time even in the real cold -20 F temps with 20+ mph winds. NOTHING ever froze inside the TC's exterior either. Talking about COLD! -20 F is 52 degrees colder than when water will freeze so Lance must be doing something right!
Storm windows and roof vent inside covers or foam inserts are a must at below zero F or they'll drip do to the exhaled moisture laden human breaths. Requires one insulated roof vent to be cracked open about 1/4" to vent the moisture. We've camped dozens of times in the winter in the U.P. of Michigan and also in Ontario, Canada north and east of Lake Superior. Mostly the Wawa, Chapleau, and Ranger Lake areas using as a base. Once at Hearst but that's too far to drive to. We used to pull our snowmobiles up there every winter behind the TC rigs and it was simply our pleasant mobile motel room out in the boonies with no building structures around anywhere and was extremely comfortable living!
BTW, we have our own RV sewer dump we installed behind our home that goes directly into our septic tank so winter dumping is no problem when we get home no matter how cold it gets or if the other dumps stations are closed for the winter. Both holding tanks on the TC become our gray water tank with plenty of capacity if we don't find a dump station open. We use a tall (5 gal) Porta Potti for black water retention with windshield washer fluid with antifreeze good for at least -20F in the rinse tank. Dump anywhere in any toilet and it never freezes hard anyway even at below it's stated temp protection but will begin to get a little slushy. Slushy won't go thru the vehicle windshield washer lines but it sure still works fine in the Porta Potti toilet system!
