Winterizing without anti-freeze - Event Date: 28 Dec 2012

One more try... Below is a combination of the two previously shown blowout solutions. It is the Camping World blowout hose with $4 of parts from Home Depot's air tool department. My mini compressor has a reg on it, so that part is covered.

After reading the comments following my post, I added antifreeze to my system. That's the nice thing about forums like this-we all learn from each other.

Thanks

Vann Evans

The first fall I had my Pod, I planned on using an air compressor to blow out my water lines, followed by pumping RV antifreeze through them.  After I blew out the lines...I had a family emergency, so I wasn't able to get back for a couple days to add the antifreeze.  When I did...the air compressor was still hooked up to the Pod.  For some reason...I ran the compressor again (even tho' I had blown out what I thought was all of the water...no liquid spraying out).  To my surprise several good blasts of water jetted out of the faucets.  I think that there was a sufficient coating of water on the inside of the pipes so that after a day or two liquid had accumulated at one or more low spots.  I don't know if this small volume of water would have been enough to crack a valve or not.  But from then on...I always add antifreeze after blowing out the pipes.
I really don't like the taste left in the pipes in the Spring so I blow out the antifreeze, followed by flushing with clean water and then I make up a couple of gallons of baking soda water and pump it into the pipes and then let it sit for a day or two. Then I flush the soda water...and the bad taste is gone.

I continue to back Nascar on this.  One of the biggest problem areas are the valve seats, so just taking the pump out only protects the pump from damage.  You would have to remove all of the valves (all faucets and the entire toilet) to protect them.

Originally posted by Pod People We do a similar type of winterizing using air to remove the water in the lines.  We use a small hand operated bicycle pump to remove all water from the lines.  We first open all faucets and drain everything as much as possible. We  drain the water heater manually by removing the anode rod. Turn on the pump briefly to ensure there is no water left there.We bought a small plastic fitting that screws into the city water inlet.and has a nipple on the other end.   It allows you to hook  up  a small hand pump.   We then use the hand pump to empty all of the remaining water in the lines.  Seems to be easy and simple. Vann Evans