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    Posted: 05 Sep 2010 at 11:04am
Does one need to worry about freezing water in the pluming if the temps. drop below 32 overnight.  Ken
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I would think it will be ok if no lower than 25 for 4 hrs or so.  It has an element of risk.
 
 
 
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I would think that if it was really going to be cold you could always turn the water heater on and let the hot water and cold drip through the night.
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On our way back from picking up our pod last March we encountered some winter type weather with temps in the mid 20's and a couple of snow storms. We kept the pod warm with a ceramic heater and didn't have any problems with the pipes. We did have condensation on the inside of the pod. And it did warm up during the day.
 
I am curious about towing during cooler weather when it doesn't go above freezing in the daytime. I wonder if, without any heat being generated would the pipes and tanks freeze?
 
We really, really want to take the pod somewhere warm this winter.
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I'm new to all this, but my plan is to keep RV-antifreeze in the system, not to drink or shower with, but simply to keep whatever water I wish to hold/drain into my tanks from freezing, and to enable flushing the toilet.  I can keep separate bottled water to drink and bathe and safely drain into the antifreezed tanks. 

Is there any reason why this plan won't work?  Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Question
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Both the fresh water and waste tanks are suspended below the Pod exposed to outside freezing environment. they will freeze up!.  I carry water in 'jerry cans' in the Pod...and heat water on the stove, and use a plastic basin to discard kitchen sink water.  I winter camp in campsites which have
toilets available.  You don't want to haul around frozen water and broken plumbing pipes and valves.
My RV has 'heating wires' on its waste tanks, but even when heated I found that the waste valves tend to freeze up while dumping.
Think of your Pod as a 'heated tent' while winter camping.
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On our vacation in Wyoming the last 2 weeks we woke up to ice on the pod windows twice in the upper mountain areas. On our way back to Okla we spent one night in the Snowy Range at 11,700 feet with no ice, but pretty cold temps that morning and then a night at a lower altitude 8600 feet with significant ice on the windows.  We worried most of the night about the pipes and the water heater, but they seemed to come thru okay.The temp apparently just dropped for a couple of hours at night....not sure I'd want to try it again though.
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Carry a bottle of RV antifreeze with you and when the temps get below freezing pour a little antifreeze in your drains and down your toilet tank.  A "tank" full of water will take several hours to completely freeze "solid".  We spent 3 nights in Yellowstone with below freezing nights and our 15 gal tank never froze.   The inside of our vehicle got down to 40 degrees inside with NO heat other then our body heat....burr it was cold in the AM.  What ever the temp was outside our inside temp was 20 degrees warmer.  We did not have antifreeze with us.  We owned 2 PUP's and we NEVER winterized and NEVER had any problems with pipes freezing.  We didn't know any better and were just lucky I guess.
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Originally posted by yizit yizit wrote:

Carry a bottle of RV antifreeze with you and when the temps get below freezing pour a little antifreeze in your drains and down your toilet tank.  A "tank" full of water will take several hours to completely freeze "solid".  We spent 3 nights in Yellowstone with below freezing nights and our 15 gal tank never froze.   The inside of our vehicle got down to 40 degrees inside with NO heat other then our body heat....burr it was cold in the AM.  What ever the temp was outside our inside temp was 20 degrees warmer.  We did not have antifreeze with us.  We owned 2 PUP's and we NEVER winterized and NEVER had any problems with pipes freezing.  We didn't know any better and were just lucky I guess.
 
Wow. Were you living in WI at the time?
 
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YEP.  One we owned for 5 years and the other 2 years (both were stored outdoors) before we bought our first travel trailer.  It was then we were told about winterizing the TT.  So like I said, I guess we were just lucky.  
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