Cold Weather Plumbing

[Chuck Wheeler]

The water lines in our FC have heat tape around them. It appears to be
factory and runs from the tanks under the bed all the way to the shower.
The power is controlled under the bath cabinet about where the water drain
valve is located. It also has the power control for the grey and black
water tank heaters at the same location. I also discovered that the propane
furnaces return air flows along the pipe tray from an intake next to the
refrigerator. When we travel in real cold weather I always leave the rear
and middle heaters on instead of using the chassis to keep air moving along
the pipe tray. So far we haven't frozen but we are about to test it again
during the holidays. If it really gets cold I will probably start he
generator so the heat tape, tank heaters, and other frost heaters will have
power.

- Chuck Wheeler -
82 FC 31 SB
Fort Worth, TX


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From: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Terry Neal
Sent: Saturday, December 09, 2006 5:06 PM
To: WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [WanderlodgeForum] Cold Weather Plumbing



Ernie, I have seen somewhere (CRS again) an insulation with built in
heat tape for water lines. It's something like that foam wrap that is
used on residential water lines with the addition of the "heat tape".
You just add more sections & plug them together as needed. Kind of like
Xmas lights. I'll do some searching.

Terry Neal
Bozeman, MT
82PT40
74FC34

erniecarpet@ aol.com wrote:

> Installing a bypass and injecting antifreeze in all the pipes might be
> well
> suited to folks that do not use their coach in the winter. Since we live
> further south of the deep freeze, we use ours year round. in fact, I
> guess i could
> have considered myself a fulltimer as I was in the coach 10 months this
> year.
> What I was trying to get across, and hopefully I can this time. I
> would like
> to be able to stay up in Montana longer- that is if I had a good
> system in
> place where my water wouldn't freeze if it got to be zero outside for a
> prolonged time.
> Is heat tape the ONLY solution that is on the market?
> It would be nice if there were small heaters- not noisy hair dryers that
> could operate and send warm air down the side runs of the coach.
> On my coach, the chassis heater lines do not run down the fresh water
> runs-
> thus I couldn't use those. By the way, my chassis heaters saved our butts
> driving home.
>
>
>
> Ernie Ekberg
> 83PT40
> Weatherford, tx
>
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