Mike and Claudia

We Volunteer at National Parks, state parks, church Camps, etc.  Talk to people, check campsites, give tours, etc.  We have also this year "Work Camped" at an RV Park, working in the office.  "Boy!  What an eye opener."  We get a campsite, electricity, laundry money, and $ 500/month for 25 hours.

As I said it is an eye-opening position.

The rest of the time we just bum around. 

On 9/5/2017 at 10:38 AM, GaryMaryanne said:

The DW and I are going to be starting our fulltime lifestyle here in a couple weeks. We are having and estate sate and putting the house up for sale on Sept 21. That is the day we are moving into our TT. We have been dreaming about the fulltime lifestyle but due to some things outside of our control we have the chance to do it now. We currently live in Western New York and plan on staying around here for as long as we can for doctors appointments and such. My question is we have a Jayco 245RLSW that we are starting out in and I am worried about freezing our water lines. If we keep the heat going in the trailer how long can we stay. I am thinking that temps overnight might drop into the high 20's but in the 50's during the day. Any help you guys with more experience have would be greatly appreciated 

I have a Dutch Star motor home.  It has a "Water Compartment" where all of the tanks, pump, some  of the lines, are together in one compartment together in the wingle compartment.  We have been in the Panhandle of Texas here the overnight temp would get down to -5 f .  I put a small ceramic heater in the compartment running 24/7 on low.  The only problem I had was the lines coming out of the hot water heater froze up.  The next night I put a 60 lamp (incondescent) below where the lines come out of the HWH and this solved THAT problem.  I made sure to close off the Gray & Black valves, draining the hoses-making sure to close off the "hole" where the hose came out.  I also used the water hose to fill up the water tank, then totally drained the hose.

I had no problems after putting the lamp by the HWH.

If you have water lines on the inside of the rig, they TOO can freeze if not insulated.

It was a pain having to go out in a blizzard to drain the tanks, but that was MUCH better than having everything freeze up.

NOTE:  The drain hose WILL freeze up if you try to leave it out, to drain the gray water.  Don't ask me how I know.   

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