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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Gdetrailer wrote:Let me get this straight. A furnace has many fail safe systems to prevent malfunctions... But you are afraid that they may fail.... But you are OK sleeping in a TT with a running furnace, and relying on another safety device (smoke detector) awakening you so that you can put out the fire.
Huntindog writes "All of your concerns would be much MORE serious if the unit was to be occupied by sleeping people if the sky were to fall. "
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Honestly, not sure as to what your getting at...
I never said that the "sky is falling" and the RV WILL burn up...
To put it another way, if YOU ARE PRESENT and the furnace malfunctions AND YOU HAVE working smoke detectors you most likely will be woke up and leave the RV(no falling sky just the reality in life that "stuff" does indeed happen).
If you are lucky you just might catch the malfunction BEFORE any fire or damage happens.
When you are not present there IS NO CHANCE of saving anything in case of malfunction.
Additionally if you are storing at someones elses storage lot, they may or may not be amused at the thought or notion that folks are leaving fuel burning things running unattended in their storage lots. I would recommend checking with the storage lot since if your RV for any reason causes damage to the facility or other property it may be you and your insurance picking up the bill (yes, someone won't be happy)...
Are you not afraid of the smoke detector failing?
Stuff happens you know.:B
