Turn heater on for the night or winterize?
I'm in Portland, Oregon. Temperature is supposed to get to 25F tonight. I was getting ready to go winterize the motorhome when it occurred to me that I might be fine just going over to the storage l...
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One or two nights is probably OK around here, given that temps will rise above freezing during the day. We spent about 2 months living in ours at the KOA in Corvallis this time last year. We only had problems when the temps stayed below freezing for several days and then it was the water hose & black tank outlet that froze. Of course we were running heat (space heater during the day with furnace added at night) so the trailer itself never got below mid-50's at worst.
The hose had heat tape and insulation on it but the 15A GFCI outlet on the pedestal had failed so it didn't work. Once the outlet was replaced the hose thawed out and we were good. Black tank was an hour of running a hair dryer outside and pouring hot water down the toilet on the inside. Luckily we got the keys to our new home (on Christmas Eve) before the next hard freeze came along so we only had to deal with the frozen tank once.
The hose had heat tape and insulation on it but the 15A GFCI outlet on the pedestal had failed so it didn't work. Once the outlet was replaced the hose thawed out and we were good. Black tank was an hour of running a hair dryer outside and pouring hot water down the toilet on the inside. Luckily we got the keys to our new home (on Christmas Eve) before the next hard freeze came along so we only had to deal with the frozen tank once.
