Winter weather without winterizing?
I've had my 2007 NL 10'2"QRR for around 1.5 years. Last winter the camper was at the dealer for some work and all they had me do was drain the water and run air through the system. Neither I nor the...
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brholt has ssome good info. You could always add a small fan some place to move some are into the basement area.
I experience about the same temps here on the east coast and have never winterized my campers. My current non-basement TC sits in a storage yard so using electric heat isn't an option. All I do is go out when the temps will be below freezing, turn the furnace on lowest setting and let it burn the propane. Before I added a 100-watt solar panel, I would get about 3 days before I needed to pull the battery to recharge. For the few nights we see below 20*, I put it on the truck and bring it home so I have electric and the added insulation of the truck bed. Never had a problem with freezing lines. I can get about 40 nights of freezing temps before I even begin to worry about a tank of propane. That works out to less than 50 cents / night which is really nothing compared to the gas for a single weekend trip.
The black tank won't freeze down to about 10* because of the salts and contamenants. The gray tank will handle about the same temps before freezing. And even then, they only freeze to a brown slushy down to about 0*. So no real need to worry about them.
Fresh water tank takes a lot to freeze too. Just think of a bottle of water left in your vehicle. Just the bulk and being out of the wind and it takes a lot more than a single night into the upper 20s or lower before it freezes. Camping there is a case of water on my truck's back seat and usually a bottle or two in the doors. Even when I've woken up to temps in the teens, I've never seen ice in any of them.
I experience about the same temps here on the east coast and have never winterized my campers. My current non-basement TC sits in a storage yard so using electric heat isn't an option. All I do is go out when the temps will be below freezing, turn the furnace on lowest setting and let it burn the propane. Before I added a 100-watt solar panel, I would get about 3 days before I needed to pull the battery to recharge. For the few nights we see below 20*, I put it on the truck and bring it home so I have electric and the added insulation of the truck bed. Never had a problem with freezing lines. I can get about 40 nights of freezing temps before I even begin to worry about a tank of propane. That works out to less than 50 cents / night which is really nothing compared to the gas for a single weekend trip.
The black tank won't freeze down to about 10* because of the salts and contamenants. The gray tank will handle about the same temps before freezing. And even then, they only freeze to a brown slushy down to about 0*. So no real need to worry about them.
Fresh water tank takes a lot to freeze too. Just think of a bottle of water left in your vehicle. Just the bulk and being out of the wind and it takes a lot more than a single night into the upper 20s or lower before it freezes. Camping there is a case of water on my truck's back seat and usually a bottle or two in the doors. Even when I've woken up to temps in the teens, I've never seen ice in any of them.
