Boca_Shuffles
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The past three winters we have left the frozen North when the temperatures have been in the 5 to 15 below zero (F) range. The following are some suggestions for people who will be taking their units out of storage and heading South:
1. Warm up your RV slowly. If you try to go from minus 10 degrees to 75 degrees too quickly you might have trouble with cabinets cracking and furniture seams splitting. Be careful of anything that is directly over a heat duct.
2. Open your bathroom door to let some of the heat circulate. This room is often the closest to the furnace and will get hot the fastest. (We had our cabinet door above the head split.) You might want to get adjustable heat ducts for this room or just put a towel over the duct during the initial thawing.
3. Open all the doors to your cabinets and closets. This will help get the heat evenly circulated. Having stored cold inside the cabinet while the other side of the door is warm might cause some woodwork to split.
4. Don't use your flat screen TV until your RV has been thoroughly warmed up.
5. If you will be traveling a long distance the first day in frigid weather and want to crash into bed for some sleep, warm the bed with an electric blanket before going to bed. If you don't have a generator and are staying at Wally Word or a Rest Stop, use a 12 volt electric blanket and a portable jump start battery, to warm the bed.
Jumping into a bed that has been stored at 10 degrees below zero is not comfortable. It takes a long time to warm up the bed with body heat.
6. If you store your power cord in a small compartment, you might not be able to get it out or in in below zero weather. The plastic is too stiff to bend. Carry a spare power cable somewhere that is heated.
7. Your bumper storage compartment might open by itself if the cover is plastic. A rubber end cap is better. (We dragged our red stinky slinky down the expressway until we could get out of the construction zone).
Please feel free to add more suggestions to this list.
1. Warm up your RV slowly. If you try to go from minus 10 degrees to 75 degrees too quickly you might have trouble with cabinets cracking and furniture seams splitting. Be careful of anything that is directly over a heat duct.
2. Open your bathroom door to let some of the heat circulate. This room is often the closest to the furnace and will get hot the fastest. (We had our cabinet door above the head split.) You might want to get adjustable heat ducts for this room or just put a towel over the duct during the initial thawing.
3. Open all the doors to your cabinets and closets. This will help get the heat evenly circulated. Having stored cold inside the cabinet while the other side of the door is warm might cause some woodwork to split.
4. Don't use your flat screen TV until your RV has been thoroughly warmed up.
5. If you will be traveling a long distance the first day in frigid weather and want to crash into bed for some sleep, warm the bed with an electric blanket before going to bed. If you don't have a generator and are staying at Wally Word or a Rest Stop, use a 12 volt electric blanket and a portable jump start battery, to warm the bed.
Jumping into a bed that has been stored at 10 degrees below zero is not comfortable. It takes a long time to warm up the bed with body heat.
6. If you store your power cord in a small compartment, you might not be able to get it out or in in below zero weather. The plastic is too stiff to bend. Carry a spare power cable somewhere that is heated.
7. Your bumper storage compartment might open by itself if the cover is plastic. A rubber end cap is better. (We dragged our red stinky slinky down the expressway until we could get out of the construction zone).
Please feel free to add more suggestions to this list.