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Location: somewhere in the south | With temps dropping and our first winter with a LQ trailer I have a question???? Can you plug your trailer in and just set the heat to a decent temp and leave it so the pipes (if I haven't gotten all the water out!) won't freeze??? Also, what about the gray and black water tanks????
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Location: Where I am happiest | No. You need to empty everything out and blow the lines out. Even your grey and black tank's can/will freeze solid if anything is left in there. There is alot of info on line as to winterizing your trailer. |
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Location: somewhere in the south | Right now I can't get my trailer out.............ground is soaked and I will get stuck so I need other options!! |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | If you can't dump your waste tanks, pour RV antifreeze in them to get by. Not ideal, but better than nothing. Your fresh water tank can be drained tho, shut off water to the hot water heater, drain it from the outside, then use your pump to fill the lines with RV antifreeze. If you look where your freshwater tank and pump are, you will see the valves to do all this and there should be an open line to your water pump to stick in the jug, then turn faucets on one at a time until pink runs out. I have used a heater in the trailer to get by, but when it gets as cold as it's about to, you really need to have the winterizing done. There are youtube vids if you need more help. |
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| Depends HOW cold you are talking about too. If "cold" is above 32 degrees, you'll be fine, if not, you need to winterize that trailer. You shouldn't have to move it to winterize it - although you do need to drain the water. We blow out our lines and put RV antifreeze in the "P" traps - but google, there is a lot of info on how to do this. |
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Location: somewhere in the south | It's suppose to get down to 11 tonight with wind chills bringing it to around 0 by morning and then no higher than freezing tomorrow all day...............I can't empty the gray/black water tanks because I can't get it out so I'm gonna try to put rv antifreeze in it and hope for the best! Any other help would be much appreciated!! |
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Location: East Texas | We plug ours in..... You guys have another option for me? We use our trailer throughout the winter. This Sat. has a high of 33 and we are staying overnight at a rodeo. |
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| We "winterized" our trailer last year and still busted pipes. This year, it's in a garage, but we have it plugged in and the heater is running at a decent temperature to keep it from freezing. We live in West Texas so it doesn't get as bad as other places up North. My concern with putting antifreeze in everything is it being harmful to us and our pets later on. |
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| barrelrider - 2015-01-07 9:18 AM We "winterized" our trailer last year and still busted pipes. This year, it's in a garage, but we have it plugged in and the heater is running at a decent temperature to keep it from freezing. We live in West Texas so it doesn't get as bad as other places up North. My concern with putting antifreeze in everything is it being harmful to us and our pets later on.
ONLY use RV antifreeze!! I wouldn't DREAM of putting the other type in my trailer either! |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | i drain mine and run rv antifreeze in to all the lines and hotwater tank....then i drain in really good in the spring and flush it out and i use some kind of powder that takes the smell or taste of any antifreeze ......from the sounds of it i dont think your going to get cold enough to do any damage...i have stayed in my trailer at -15 and colder and it was all good......
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Location: Where I am happiest | You can probably pull it out in the morning when the ground is frozen. You have to do it first thing though before the sun starts working on that ground. |
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | ThreeCorners - 2015-01-07 11:43 AM You can probably pull it out in the morning when the ground is frozen. You have to do it first thing though before the sun starts working on that ground.
Good idea. We moved a good sized house through a frozen cotton field once. It got down to 18 degrees that night, and they started at 5 am so they would be finished before the sun came up. |
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Location: MD | not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul.
is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay.
I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah |
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Location: Oklahoma | turn3nhome - 2015-01-06 7:01 PM With temps dropping and our first winter with a LQ trailer I have a question???? Can you plug your trailer in and just set the heat to a decent temp and leave it so the pipes (if I haven't gotten all the water out!) won't freeze??? Also, what about the gray and black water tanks????
Thats what weve done in OK with no issues. |
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Location: Ky | turn3nhome - 2015-01-07 9:15 AM It's suppose to get down to 11 tonight with wind chills bringing it to around 0 by morning and then no higher than freezing tomorrow all day...............I can't empty the gray/black water tanks because I can't get it out so I'm gonna try to put rv antifreeze in it and hope for the best! Any other help would be much appreciated!!
Windchill has nothing to do with ambiant temperature. Water will not freeze in 35 degrees even with a 50 mile per hour wind. As turning on the heat, that will help but most lines are behind insulation.
I always would drain all tanks and then blow out the lines. If you can't do that then do as someone said and use some RV anti freeze. |
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Location: Ky | Crowned Image - 2015-01-07 12:04 PM not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul. is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay. I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah
Every camper and RV facility in our area will winterize an LQ for a fee. Prety hefty fee in these parts. |
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Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Crowned Image - 2015-01-08 11:04 AM not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul. is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay. I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah its really easy to do your self.....i would never pay someone to winterize my trailer..............lol
p.s.my trailer sits out side all winter long and its not plugged in...and we were -35 this morning
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | mruggles - 2015-01-07 12:15 PM Crowned Image - 2015-01-08 11:04 AM not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul. is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay. I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah its really easy to do your self.....i would never pay someone to winterize my trailer..............lol
p.s.my trailer sits out side all winter long and its not plugged in...and we were -35 this morning
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It's really not hard. Unless your big head won't fit under the couch so you can see the valves. Heehee |
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Good Grief!
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | Three 4 Luck - 2015-01-08 11:18 AM mruggles - 2015-01-07 12:15 PM Crowned Image - 2015-01-08 11:04 AM not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul. is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay. I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah its really easy to do your self.....i would never pay someone to winterize my trailer..............lol
p.s.my trailer sits out side all winter long and its not plugged in...and we were -35 this morning
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Location: Buffalo, TX | Crowned Image - 2015-01-07 12:04 PM not to hijack but we are seriously thinking of upgrading so we can work while we haul. is there companies that winterize it for you? We currently don't have a place to plug it in or keep it out of the cold since our indoor is full of hay. I'm pretty excited about it AND I think my boyfriend is more excited for me to haul more than I am. He got an eye full of those new LQ's and said... "why didn't you tell me they made these kind of trailers, these are pretty neat?!" ahah
Any RV place will winterize it for you...we sell both horse trailers and RV's and have a repair shop for both, and we are snowed under winterizing in the fall...
To the OP...even a teaspoon of water in the water pump will crack it, and they cost over $100....so you need to get heat in the trailer with the cabinet doors and bathroom door left open....propane furnace heat will work but be sure you don't run out of propane....when you winterize, dont just dump the water and think you're done, either blow it out of the lines and make sure there's no water left in the faucets or hot water heater, or run RV antifreeze through the lines until the faucets run pink.
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Location: Buffalo, Wyoming | PLEASE winterize your trailer... My SO didn't think he would have to since he used to go to Texas for the winter.
Well that turned into a BIG mess. We couldn't figure out why my face kept breaking out in rashes and I sneezed an awful lot while I was in the trailer.
Well, we were getting ready to sell the trailer last year and needed to fix some things. He decided to pull the couch out as the pump had stopped working.... You guessed it. MOLD everywhere. Water was pooled in between the wood floor and the steel as it had nowhere to go. We had to rip up all of the flooring and have it re-done.
You will be WAY ahead of the game if you winterize it. |
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Location: somewhere in the south | Well, it didn't go as planned................I did the water heater just fine but when I plugged the trailer in to turn on the pump to do the rv anitfreeze, a fire broke out in the vent behind the frig............yikes for sure! I got it put out with the fire extinguisher and there's not much damage but I have no idea what happened! This is a brand new trailer and we haven't even used the frig nor the gas stove, gas tank wasn't even turned on! So I poured some antifreeze down the kitchen sink and the rest in the toilet..............hoping for the best! Now to deal with what comes next...................insurance claim or warranty claim??? Such stress! |
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Location: Cap'n Joan Rotgut.....alberta | that does suck...i would try warranty first....i had a trailer fire and it was not good.....
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Location: Where I am happiest | Oh geezzz, thats not good. Call the trailor lot you bought it from. |
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cold temps and LQ trailers............???