Winterizing thread

[one_dusty_hoot]

Maybe I have just been lucky? Maybe it has not been cold
enough here? Maybe I took a little more care?

I have opened the front door of a house and the entire
living room ceiling had fallen to the floor, overhead
plumbing and the owner turn off the heat.

I have had to remove the siding from the back of a house
to repair all the copper pipes damaged from freezing.

Some winters, not all, it does get very cold here, enough
so that an open foundation vent can burst copper in a
heated house. And, I believe that ice doesn't require
any more space be it 24 degees F. or minus 24 degrees F.

I would lke a response please from someone who owned a
Bluebird Motor Home, not SOB, not PO "said", YOU! and
only YOU, who feel as though you did the job according
to the manual, taking care to do everything right, had
a broken pipe in their coach due to freezing.

If you have had this happen I do hope you will not
withold this information because of any guilt or
embarasement for it has been said, you followed the
instructions, and, it did not work.

Thanks, Bob Janes, Greenville, SC






--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "birdshill123"
wrote:
>
> Although I am a new BB owner I feel I am more than qualified to
jump
> into this thread because: A: I have been RV'ng for 35 years B: I
live
> where it can and has reached minus 40 in the winter. C. We
winterize
> our summer cottage every fall.
>
> My experience has been that compressed air by itself is not
enough.
> Water will be trapped at the elbows. Especially with copper pipes.
> Assuming you have some sort of bypass the best method is to first
> blow out all the lines. Then using a hand pump, pump the pink
stuff
> BACK from the faucets into the lines. For instance you can open
the
> bathroom faucet and pump from the kitchen faucet back to the
> bathroom. When pink stuff comes out of the bathroom faucet pump
from
> the bathroom faucet to the shower. finally you need to make sure
that
> pink stuff is in the lines from the bathroom to under the bed. You
> can manually open the check valve in the fresh water intake and
have
> some one pump from the bathroom till pink stuff comes out the
water
> intake. An alternate method is to disconnect the intake line at
the
> water pump and pump pink A/F to each faucet and toilet. Murphy's
law
> states that if a line is going to freeze it will be in the most
> inaccessable place!
>
> Bruce 1988 FC 35
>