Winter RV Living - How to not FREEZE (Yourself or the Tanks)
After six months of living full-time in our RV, and traveling to 20 ski resorts throughout the country, here is our short list of tips on how to stay warm during a winter storm, and keep your tanks (especially black tank) from freezing.
We had a lot of things go wrong and learned a whole lot while boondocking in the winter (sometimes the hard way).
As always, do your research, and don't venture into freezing temperatures unless you have the proper equipment or set up to survive the polar night.
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I admire your tenacity and willingness to just figure things out that work for you during Winter travels. I can see how that little hackery would be SO useful to have for us here in the coastal south; power outages are no joke during hurricane season! We don't have to worry about blizzard conditions here, though ;)
@MackOnTheRoad
28 күн бұрын
Yes! That would be so useful during power outages. It also has the ability to charged with a solar panel that they sell too. With you on the coast you’d have no problem getting a charge. Thank you for watching!
An added tip. One of the weakest areas is exposed gray and black dump pipes. Buy some tube installation and wrap your pipes or the fluid in them will freeze making to impossible to dump until they thaw. Secure them with tie wraps.
@MackOnTheRoad
Сағат бұрын
Yes! One thing I added shortly after this video was filed was heat wire and insulation in places that our heat duct in the under belly doesn’t reach. Makes a difference!
Tap into the hot water line and run it into the fresh water tank and run it for as long as needed. Kinda like in floor heat.
@MackOnTheRoad
Сағат бұрын
We thought about this! However when it gets super cold, and without insulation, the heat in the pipes doesn’t last too long.
Haven't even hardly begun to watch this vid. yet the first thing I saw off the Thumbnail is you have to block the wind from blowing under your trailer..plywood, cardboard, plastic even whatever...stop the wind
@MackOnTheRoad
Сағат бұрын
We primarily boondock and we move about once a week, so a lot of this video is what we do without having to skirt. If we were stationary we’d have tons of plywood skirting!
Do the freezing temperatures affect the capacity of the batteries?
@MackOnTheRoad
2 ай бұрын
Absolutely! The 12v battery on the front is totally exposed and if our lithium solar battery isn’t charging it, it’ll die pretty quickly. The colder it is the quicker it’ll go as well.