Winterizing Advice for North Idaho ?
We are newbie owners of a new winnie micro travel trailer 1706fb. The plan is to head south as soon as freezing arrives. As usual delays creep into the plans, so we need to consider what to do if it...
Forum Discussion
In my experience, nightly lows a little below freezing, like into the mid 20s at the lowest and above freezing during the day, boats and rvs will survive. Take this with a grain of salt though, as wind, hours of daylight, sun exposure, etc can all affect this.
Quick winterization is easy though if you have an air compressor.
Blow out water lines. Camper in city water mode if you have to switch a valve. 1 at a time open each faucet. Blow air into city water hookup. Seal up the connection with a piece of foam, wrap the air nozzle a tape etc. don't use 150psi air pressure but you won't blow anything up if you have a way for the air to escape (open faucet).
Do this with each faucet and the toilet.
Drain tanks if they're not almost empty already.
Dump some a half gal of rv antifreeze into each tank, thru each drain so the sink traps get antifreeze in them.
Empty hot water heater.
Done.
I've winterized from AZ to AK like this and I dry block my boats too. So far so good for years.
Quick winterization is easy though if you have an air compressor.
Blow out water lines. Camper in city water mode if you have to switch a valve. 1 at a time open each faucet. Blow air into city water hookup. Seal up the connection with a piece of foam, wrap the air nozzle a tape etc. don't use 150psi air pressure but you won't blow anything up if you have a way for the air to escape (open faucet).
Do this with each faucet and the toilet.
Drain tanks if they're not almost empty already.
Dump some a half gal of rv antifreeze into each tank, thru each drain so the sink traps get antifreeze in them.
Empty hot water heater.
Done.
I've winterized from AZ to AK like this and I dry block my boats too. So far so good for years.
