Need to Winterize in TX?

jaredcb03 wrote:

Jay Pat wrote:
I'm in Round Rock.
31 degrees Thursday night.
I do not plan to drain anything, yet.
Pat

Round Rock is where I live too!

When will you actually do something?

It will depend on how cold and for how long.
I don't have a number for that.
Pat

Just winterized ours after this last trip. We are in Midland can have some really cold weather. Play it safe drain the lines, all husband does is blow out the lines of water and drain the water heater. Will also run a small heater just to keep it around 40 inside.

Sharon

I'd winterize it myself.
bumpy

WX says a big cold wave is dropping down out of Canada this coming next few days... I would judge accordingly...

I havent looked on the map but I think Round Rock is in the Austin area...

Our POPUP trailer is much smaller and a very small water system compared to what you most likely have. We too like to keep on camping in the winter months so the blow out method is our best course for winterizing. Here in Northern Va just gets cold over night sometimes and warms up the next day...

I cam drain my fresh water tank at the low water point with the sink spigots open and blow out the water lines using my 12VDC tankless air compressor. Then just add some pink stuff to the two p-traps I have on my trailer... The hot water heater will have drained down using the low water point but there is still some water in the bottom of it. It has plenty of room to expand if it freezes... Like at the house we always unhook any water lines connected to the trailer city water port...

Used to live in the Wichita Falls areas for a few years back in the 60s... Some of the coldest WX I have ever lived through haha... Learned what a blue northern was when we lived there...

Water lines will bust for sure if they have water in them and freezes up...

Roy Ken

Jay Pat wrote:
I'm in Round Rock.
31 degrees Thursday night.
I do not plan to drain anything, yet.
Pat

Round Rock is where I live too!

When will you actually do something?

I'm in Round Rock.
31 degrees Thursday night.
I do not plan to drain anything, yet.
Pat

High 20s for a few hours is enough to do damage. But, the good news is you only have to protect the lines you don't want damaged.

You ask if a space heater will work, should I leave the furnace on, etc. That depends on where the lines are located at and whether or not the space around them will stay above freezing. How am I supposed to determine all that from 2000 miles away? Can you get heat into all the places the water lines run? what about the pump?

You either have to keep the lines from freezing or protect them. You can protect them by blowing all the water out or displacing the water with antifreeze.

What do the people around you do?

Do you have insurance on the trailer?
Winterizing completely is like buying insurance.
You do it just in case.

Drain the water out of all things you can, Bypass water heater and blow out the water lines with air and then put some antifreeze in the traps.
YOu have zero worries after that. Any other method can fail

Cost should be less than 10 bucks and time under an hour