Winterizing thread
|
06-15-2006, 11:38
Post: #6
|
|||
|
|||
Winterizing thread
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 |
|||
« Next Oldest | Next Newest »
|
Messages In This Thread |
Winterizing thread - Ralph - 06-15-2006, 05:22
Winterizing thread - one_dusty_hoot - 06-15-2006, 09:21
Winterizing thread - pattypape - 06-15-2006, 09:40
Winterizing thread - Tom Warner - 06-15-2006, 10:38
Winterizing thread - davidkerryedwards - 06-15-2006, 11:02
Winterizing thread - birdshill123 - 06-15-2006 11:38
Winterizing thread - Rob Robinson - 06-15-2006, 11:52
Winterizing thread - one_dusty_hoot - 06-15-2006, 15:28
Winterizing thread - Ralph L. Fullenwider - 06-15-2006, 16:15
Winterizing thread - orbitalsolutions - 06-15-2006, 16:49
Winterizing thread - Rob Robinson - 06-15-2006, 16:51
Winterizing thread - Jerry - 06-15-2006, 17:00
Winterizing thread - orbitalsolutions - 06-15-2006, 17:00
Winterizing thread - Rob Robinson - 06-15-2006, 17:09
Winterizing thread - Gregory OConnor - 06-16-2006, 00:13
|
User(s) browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)