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Ken Henderson
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Location: Americus, GA
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I guess the opposite policies should be promoted too, Jim: For the 23
years we've owned "Tweety Bird", I've always drunk the on-board water. SHE
insists on drinking bottled water, but does that at home too, over my
strenuous objections to the whole bottled water fad. I've never had any
side effects from the water (but then the GA/ALA swamp water never bothered
me much either.) :-) I do try to sterilize the system every year or so,
but I'm not fanatic about it.
As for freeze protection: After the last trip of the year, I'll open the
water heater and H2O tank drains. On the rare nights when our temperature
drops into the 20's, I'll leave an electric heater running on "Low", with
all the cabinet doors open. Then go back in the house and try to find
where it's warm enough to tempt me to move! Never yet had any plumbing
damage.
This isn't a recommendation; merely a report of different techniques -- in
a MILD climate..
Ken H.
On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 1:58 PM James Hupy wrote:
> 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:
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>> 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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