Run antifreeze from the fresh water tank?
Am ready to winterize my rig (will be my first time doing this). I saw some YouTube videos. Question: since I don't have a piece of line and the matching clamp is it OK to just put the pink antifre...
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Here's the way I always do it.
I blow the lines first just to get most of the water out, but probably not necessary. Without a compressor, I would open all the valves, drain from the low point, and then close the low point again. ... I have a portable waste/grey tank, and a place to dump it, so I drain whatever might be in the black and grey water tanks so I don't get any water stuck in the drain valves. Then I drain and bypass the hot water tank, pour 3 gallons of AF in the fresh water tank, run the pump until pink stuff comes through all the taps. Run enough to fill the traps. While I am doing this, I'll crack the hot water bypass and let a cup or so of AF into the tank. Drain the remaining AF from the fresh water tank and save for next year. Usually a gallon or so left in there. Then open all the valves again and take the caps off the low points, and leave them open. store the low point caps in the trailer to find them again in the spring.
In the spring, fill the fresh tank and flush through the lines. Drain, fill the tank again and repeat. Easy as can be!
As for the expense of using more AF by putting it in the fresh tank, I can always get it for anywhere from $3.50 to $5.00, so the max of $15.00 isn't all that big of an expense compared to the ease.
Here in Ontario we have long, cold winters, so I like to make sure there is nothing in the lines and tanks but antifreeze. we never drink from the holding tank, and would never consider it, with or without antifreeze, when bottled water is so easy and cheap.
I blow the lines first just to get most of the water out, but probably not necessary. Without a compressor, I would open all the valves, drain from the low point, and then close the low point again. ... I have a portable waste/grey tank, and a place to dump it, so I drain whatever might be in the black and grey water tanks so I don't get any water stuck in the drain valves. Then I drain and bypass the hot water tank, pour 3 gallons of AF in the fresh water tank, run the pump until pink stuff comes through all the taps. Run enough to fill the traps. While I am doing this, I'll crack the hot water bypass and let a cup or so of AF into the tank. Drain the remaining AF from the fresh water tank and save for next year. Usually a gallon or so left in there. Then open all the valves again and take the caps off the low points, and leave them open. store the low point caps in the trailer to find them again in the spring.
In the spring, fill the fresh tank and flush through the lines. Drain, fill the tank again and repeat. Easy as can be!
As for the expense of using more AF by putting it in the fresh tank, I can always get it for anywhere from $3.50 to $5.00, so the max of $15.00 isn't all that big of an expense compared to the ease.
Here in Ontario we have long, cold winters, so I like to make sure there is nothing in the lines and tanks but antifreeze. we never drink from the holding tank, and would never consider it, with or without antifreeze, when bottled water is so easy and cheap.
