Using water below freezing?
I hunt, and hunting season ends mid December. My current RV has a decent water system and a decent furnace. I am wondering, providing there is heat in the RV, and if I only use the holding tanks, woul...
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JaxDad wrote:
A friend found out the hard way, the first part of the grey black tanks is the very exposed pipes / dump valves. Even with an RV with heated tanks these parts are not heated.
Provided it does all work, how are you going to winterize it at the end of the hunt?
Different RVs have differing provisions for heating tanks and such. On my motorhome, the dump valves are in a (nominally) heated compartment along with the tanks, and so protected from freezing.
It gets winterized after use in freezing weather the same as at any other time--drain out the water and sewage, and either blow out the lines or pump in antifreeze. The only difference is that I have to do it fairly expeditiously after I'm done camping, rather than waiting a week for a convenient time.
