camping trailer water lines freeze?

[sled]

  I bought a trailer this year, and want to take it hunting this week but I am worried about the water lines freezing. 
  my question is should I be worried about it freezing up?  it has a furnace, I have a generator.    all the lines are inside.  the lows are supposed to be around 13 at night, and 33 for a high.
  should I blow the lines out or go with it?  I am new to this tailer thing.
  another option I thought about is filling it with the rv antifreeze and running it through the system.

[rtspring]

You will be taking chances. For years we took our trailer hunting in the cold weather. We made skirting out of straw bails and kept the temp in the trailer up to keep it from freezing.

Another option is take the trailer but dont use the water system, just drain it..

Frozen pipes in a tailer suck and unless you fix it yourself it can get really expensive....

[Boss .300 winmag]

Just run your heater 24/7 at least 50 degrees you will be fine. I had 6 degree nights when out this year with no problems.

[Rgrady35]

I learned this the hard way. You may want to put about a pint or so of the RV Antifreeze in your grey and black water tanks. Much easier to get them emptied at the dump station.

[Hunterman]

Skirting, and keeping the heat up will go along way to keep your lines from freezing...I talked to folks in Wyoming and thats how they keep their lines free..Lock up the under side so that the cold stays out from the under side..

Hunterman(Tony)

[Chadrick60]

What I do is turn off my pump when I am not using the water and just leave the faucets open. That way if the water freezes it has somewhere to go. I have never broken a line this way.

[Humptulips]

The trouble with leaving the heater going 24/7 is electricity. Those RV heaters will drain your battery in one night. Fine idea if you're able to hook up to eletricity though.
The skirting idea good too but who wants to haul a truckload of straw bales with them.
My advice if it is really cold, drain and don't use it.

[KFhunter]

another thing to do is while your away from your trailer leave a few of the bottom doors open so air can get back in there behind the cabnets where your water lines run.
 
 

[Boss .300 winmag]

The trouble with leaving the heater going 24/7 is electricity. Those RV heaters will drain your battery in one night. Fine idea if you're able to hook up to eletricity though.
The skirting idea good too but who wants to haul a truckload of straw bales with them.
My advice if it is really cold, drain and don't use it.

Oh thats a BTW, you will need a generator to run heater 24/7. 

[300rum]

If you have the "newer" hard rubber hose for pipe(I don't remember what it is called), it will probably be o.k.  The weakest part is the outside shower, the shower is all plastic and will break pretty easily.  The new hose is very strong, I have froze my lines before with no problems and have seen another rig freeze up without any problems either.  Not on purpose but it happened.     

[sled]

anyone ever heard of rv antifreeze being bad for hot water tanks?  I thought about running some through the lines.

[the1rod]

anyone ever heard of rv antifreeze being bad for hot water tanks?  I thought about running some through the lines.

its not bad for the water heater, but if you plan to fully prime your pipes with antifreeze like your supposed to, you should bypass the water heater to save yourself about 6 gallons of antifreeze.

[JKEEN33]

I've had my trailer in weather down to around 0. Never had any problems with the lines freezing. I do keep the grey water tank drained when in cold weather and keep the pump off when not in use just in case something does happen.

[Special T]

My buddy had his camper freeze too many times so he installed all his waterlines with that PEX  freezable waterlines... Great way to fix up an older camper. My fatherinlaw did it on my trailer.

[Chadrick60]

If you have the "newer" hard rubber hose for pipe(I don't remember what it is called), it will probably be o.k.  The weakest part is the outside shower, the shower is all plastic and will break pretty easily.  The new hose is very strong, I have froze my lines before with no problems and have seen another rig freeze up without any problems either.  Not on purpose but it happened.     

If you have the outside shower, what I did was unscrew the shower head and hose and put a piece of insulation in the compartment. I also made a 1X6 frame that was a little bigger than my other storage doors and put insulation in the frames then covered the frames with visquene. its just another way to keep that cold air out. 6 years and no frozen lines while winter camping/ hunting

[AWS]

My wife has been out on the road with the RV since mid Oct. and just spent a few weeks in CO temps hit -12 in talking to the folks on the road full time if is getting cold low 20's and lower drain and rv antifreeze is the way to go heat your bath water on the stove.  She was using RV antifreeze in the tanks and had to heat tape them to be able to empty them.  Skirting and a heater underneath in realy cold weather.

[rasbo]

what year is the trailor..If you keep it warm you will be fine,do put food grade antifreeze in the holding tanks,that is the only problem we ever had with ours ..I run a honda 2000 24 7 while hunting,older trailors tend to have more problems

[JackOfAllTrades]

You bet your a$$ those lines will freeze in RV's. Pain in the rear in some places. Some RV's are worse than others. I've been pretty fortunate with our trailer.

-Steve

[gutsnthegrass]

We haven't had problems with the lines freezing in ours, it has the pex piping.  The one thing to think about is that most of the fittings on the connections are cheap plastic, this is what usaully cracks/breaks.

[CAMPMEAT]

Heater Buddy, that's the ticket. 24/7 expensive insurance, but it's cheaper than replacing the broken lines or hot water tank.

[C-Money]

I would just leave the pipes blown out and kinda rough it. It is the same plumbing as if you were in a wall tent. I would keep my lines water free, and use the camper like a wall tent. Sleep, eat, cook, just dont use the drains in the camper! That way nothing gets frozen in your camper.