How to Winterize an RV

Recreational vehicles or RV are most likely to be damaged or ruined during winter season. In this case, mostly temperatures drop below freezing in a number of regions, which can freeze the vehicle pipes and cause the vehicle to be ruined completely. To protect your RV in winter season you need to know how to winterize an RV.

Antifreeze

Water is the most common thing about which people concern for winterizing their RVs. Pressure that is developed due to the expanded ice causes the pipes to break or go off. Antifreeze is the best approach to deal with this problem.

Mostly auto supply stores provide two types of antifreeze.

• Pink-colored antifreeze: which is used to care for plumbing
• Green-colored antifreeze: It is utilized to treat the engine and fuel lines as well.

You are supposed to avoid using engine antifreeze on pipes as engine antifreeze is extremely poisonous and can mull over the inside surface of the pipes which results in the water (comes from it) to be unfit or unhealthy for human use.

Tools

You will probably need the following tools to care for your RV’s plumbing systems with antifreeze,

• Pink antifreeze
• Adapter for compressed air outlet
• Compressed air tank

Steps

The given steps let you winterize your RV easily.

First of all you have to drain both the water tanks (i.e. hot water tank and the fresh water tank). Now close the hot water’s tank valve and remained open the fresh water tank valve.

• Now install the compressed air tank plus adapter on the open valve and position the gauge to 20 pounds per square inch as well.
• Now go away inside your car and turn on all the valves and faucets of all plumbing one at a time. Verify that there is no water at all that runs away the faucets and valves.

• Take away the compressed air line and the adapter from the tank and also shift the water feeding lines to a jug of antifreeze.
• Now run the pump and set aside the antifreeze to run into the plumbing lines too. Immediately when the antifreeze brims over of valves or faucets make them closer one at a time. When there would be enough pressure in the pipes the pump will stop at that time.
• Now separate the water feeding line from antifreeze, and connect it again to the tank.

Winterizing your RV let you enable to save lots of money for replacing the fuel lines of your RV or even your entire recreational vehicle. The steps given in the above section offer you the best way to protect your vehicle particularly in the winter season.