Winterizing Newbie question - Event Date: 22 Sep 2013 - 30 Sep 2013

I actually have a glass every night at bedtime!!!!!!!kidding.  Furpod, are you just blowing lines out or doing something different.  just curious.  hogone

I think that

A) there is some confusion on/in that linked discussion.

B) EVERYTHING is toxic if you ingest enough of it. You can DIE from water poisoning if you try hard enough.

C) Somewhere, somebody, thinks everything can kill you. In California they put prop 65 warnings on Orange Juice.

D) ANYTHING can be made to sound scary if you try.. Here is an MSDS to some nasty stuff , see how dangerous it is.. can you figure out how you are in contact with it EVERYDAY??

E) RELAX.. you are not, by far, the first person to winterize an RV with pink stuff, as far as I know, no one has died from winterizing yet. Come spring you rinse it all out and sanitize the system anyways.

Originally posted by hogone I actually have a glass every night at bedtime!!!!!!!kidding.  Furpod, are you just blowing lines out or doing something different.  just curious.  hogone

I do in fact blow my lines. I have a large compressor, set it at 30 psi, and let it blow all the lines out for about 20 minutes. Ok.. last year I forgot about it and it went an hour.. lol.

before blowing, I run the pump dry, and drain as much as I can with the low point drains. I also drain the WH at the anode, then replace it for the air part, then take it back out for the winter. I put pink stuff in the traps and the black water tank, just enough to protect the dump valves.

Where are you starting from?

If you are starting out in a couple weeks, you may not need to winterize now. I wouldn't if I didn't have to. If it's "doable" just put a small ceramic heater in the pod to keep the lines in there from freezing. Drain the FW holding tank, and run the pump dry. Dump gray and black. Should be fine. If it's below freezing when you pull out.. turn on the propane and heater.

I have actually considered that if the holding tanks are all empty, and the water pump run dry, a heater keeping the pod warm will protect it all winter.. just like your home. I have not tested this theory.. but it should work.. lol

We left one in the pod last winter, set around 45 degrees, didn't notice a hit at all on the bill. it's a 1000 watts, running a couple hours a day max, here, that is literally 20 cents a day. We had winterized..

Don't know how northern AR you are, but when we lived in FT Smith, while we didn't have a TT then, I wouldn't be worried about winterizing before late November. Might be a little worried if you are in the Ozarks. But not a lot.

Oh, and you will get over most of these worries with experience.. don't sweat it.