Winterizing for the first time
We normally "winterize" by heading to Florida, but since we just bought a house, I had to do the coach the traditional way. But I ran into a small bug. We have a 2005 Holiday Rambler Ambassador wit...
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crasster wrote:
Typically I just use compressed air on low PSI and blow out my lines past the water pump (and pump them out before). Never had a problem. I just make sure I hear the air rushing for a bit. Is there anybody else that does just this or is it always pink stuff? May help that I live in TX and not too many hard freezes.
After 13 years of hanging around this and other RV forums, I'd say the number of people using pink vs air is about 50/50. I know that for myself, I first tried the pink my first year of full timing and that cured me of ever doing it again. It's just so much easier to stand in one place, at the highest water point in the RV, with all the water valves open and blow 25 PSI air into the shower hose and hear it sputtering out of all the faucets in the place. Outside shower drained too.
After spending 3 winters in Fairbanks, Alaska (-55F is the coldest I saw on the few times I stayed up to look at the outdoor thermometer), and using just the air method, I can attest that it works fine. Takes less than an 1/2 hour to be back living in the RV in the spring. And no horrible pink stuff taste for days afterwards either.
