Winterizing thread

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Being one who's practice of winterizing is to head south, at the
slightest possibility of any freezing temps at my current location;
and not stoping to rest until there is no longer any possibile
threat, I thought I would have nothing of value to add to this
thread.

However, I will address the question regarding the thermal expansion
of matter.

Bob, you stated, "I believe that ice doesn't require any more space
be it 24 degrees F. or minus 24 degrees F."

You are correct. The frozen matter in question would be equal in
volume at either of the stated temps.


James
78FC33SB "Old School"
Tunica, MS.




--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "one_dusty_hoot"
wrote:
>
> 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
> >
>