Unattended furnace
My wife and I are new to rving. We have to store our trailer off our property. Our area has variable weather this time of year. We don't want to winterize just yet but we will have intermittent fre...
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OH48Lt wrote:
If you want to leave on an unattended heat source (and sleeping in the trailer does not define "unattended"),That is the very WORST kind of unattended!! get some insurance on it. Enough to pay for your trailer and everyone else's property that was also damaged. IF everything operates like it is supposed to, it'll be OK. When a safety device fails, bad things happen.
Most RV's have furnaces that are in very close proximity to combustibles. Home furnaces generally are not situated inches from combustibles.
I've been to numerous house trailer fires. They burn fast and are deadly. Almost always caused by a faulty furnace, leaky propane, or electrical at the CB box. Or some idiot using a kerosine heater.
I see this a lot on this forum. Irrational fears. You will occupy a TT with a running furnace, even sleep in it, yet believe that it will go nuclear if nobody is present.... If you are that sure of it, then the irrational part is the willingness to go to sleep with it running...
If this is real concern them we have all been duped. Buying these expensive RVs with too dangerous to use furnaces.
