How can I winterize without winterizing?

[junkman42]

As a real florida cracker, and having grown up on a farm in palm beach county I still remember burning old tires to keep the plants from freezing.  Now living in northwest Florida We have already had temps in the low 30's and heavy frost.  So all of florida is not freeze free.  I tried one year to use light bulbs and payed a price.  All of Florida is not freeze proof.  Hope to make acadia, maybe it will be waarmer than present location.  John

[Gary LaBombard]

Junkman,
I was hoping someone else would feel the same way as I do, it is very rewarding to do things ahead of time like winterizing in any way you can but I like to be as safe as I can.  To replace any plumbing in these rigs is got to be a pain even just finding the leak.  I doubt your idea about the light bulbs would work for me Ned, but if I didn't have bad luck, I wouldn't have any at all. You know when that would happen??  You would find you have a water leak, borken pipe or any winterizing problem just the day when you are packing up for your winter trip to ARCADIA!!  It is truly up to everyone what they want to do, but in in SC I have seen it as cold as 9 deg and baby that is cold inside too.

You can never over do just to be safe in prepping your rig for winter, cut corners and pay the price. You may just luck out, This time!! If we think this summer was wierd weather wise, we have no idea how the winter will be.

Stan,
How did you get the water out of the toilet flush valve?  Never thought about that one and was lucky myself so far on S&S but again, I hate my luck.  Appreciate your input how you assured it was drained. 

Diesel fuel is still going up here, really sucks!!!
Good luck to all.

Gary

[tekebird]

in the 80's we had a seperate 5 gallon tank in the VIP coach which was plumbed into the water system.

none of the plumbed water on the bus was potable and we supplied hand wipes f or washing hands.....filled the small tank with Windshield washer and pumped it through everything.

Still is what we do on our coaches.  quick purge with fresh water if a shower is needed

[DavidInWilmNC]

How about a pump house heater like this:
http://www.grainger.com/Grainger/wwg/productIndex.shtml?operator=keywordSearch&search_type=itemnum&QueryString=2YV13

If you drain the supply lines and add RV antifreeze to the sink traps, you should be OK... at least in SC.  I'll also drain my water heater, since it's in a bay.  I guess the issue would be if you lost electricity during a winter storm - it happened here in coastal NC once, a few years ago. 

For batteries, I have those little 12 volt battery tenders on the start batteries (2), and on the generator battery.  The converter takes care of the house batteries.  I have a gas generator, so it's got stabilizer in it and run 'til the stabilizer makes it to the engine.

David