| [GMCnet] Re: Winterizing Options [message #367215 is a reply to message #367214] |
Fri, 15 October 2021 12:58   |
James Hupy
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I have owned my GMC Royale 26' coach since September, 2008. I have NEVER
drank any water from the coach potable water system, and neither has my
dog. I do not believe that you can successfully sanitize that tank to
eliminate all the bugs that might exist there. We have always carried
bottled water for drinking and coffee water. But that is just how we do. It
is still a free country, and you have that freedom to choose to drink
possibly contaminated water or not. When we backbacked, our motto was
"Don't eat yellow snow" We just drain our system down, and keep a 1500 watt
space heater running inside the coach with all the cabinet doors open for
air circulation. Having had to replace a cracked and broken hot water
heater once, we always drain that as well. It gets down to freezing here
quite often, as a matter of fact, I had to scrape ice off my windshield
Monday morning.
Jim Hupy
Salem, Oregon
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 10:04 AM Mark wrote:
> I always just used one of the adapters to hook up my air compressor to the
> water system, and blew the water out of all the faucets / showerhead /
> toilet. I never really liked the idea of drinking the residue from the
> "pink stuff" come spring. I'm not really certain how necessary winterizing
> even is here in Arizona (in the Phoenix east valley), where it seldom dips
> below freezing, and then usually only for an hour or two. I suppose I
> could just leave a small space heater turned to minimum heat connected (my
> new storage spot has a plug-in).
> --
> Mark Hickey
> Mesa, AZ
> 1978 Royale Center Kitchen
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