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I have to say, I am a bit ervous about going Skiing in the MH
We have a 2004 Swift Suntor. The fresh water tank is already inside and all the pipes are internal. We have just rturned from a long weekend in Wlaes where it was cold. Obviously not as cold as ski resorts, but we were happy enough.
I am on the lookout for external screens and also covers for the gas bottles. Trying to think what else I can do....
With your internal water tank and pipes, a plentiful supply of propane gas to keep you toasty warm and a set of snowchains and a shovel just in case, along with a good sense of humour and an adventurous spirit and you'll be just fine.
[quote:fe67c4a379="musicbus"]If you are running truma Mk 11 boiler system you can get a mains heating collar which will allow you to use your campsite plug in to run your hot water and heating. You are paying for the power anyway!!
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Hi Musicbus, Have you any idea where these are obtainable, I have done a search but failed miserably. I have been pondering over how to add electric heating to my Truma boiler for a while.
Jon.
I've just today got a reply from Truma - if its model number C3400 - its no longer produced and the heating collar is not available . . . if its C3402 then your in luck [I'm not ]
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Hi there monster
with regard to the windows problem, we had a renault holdsworth some time ago, without double glazing, I went to B&Q and bought some once only film to cover the windows
It consists of a roll of double sided tape and a roll of clear cling film type material, the tape is applied to the window suround and the film applied, heat from a hair drier is applied to the film and it shrinks to fit, cracking idea and it works !
The down side being that you must be careful not it puncture the film, although it is relatvely robust and the tape can be a pain to remove neatly.
The question of 12v heat tape/cable is a good one but 240v is readily available from electrical suppliers or refridgeration engineers (its used on door srounds), or conversly
Get yourslf down to the scrapyard, find a car with heated seats and remove the elements (12v low wattage. already insulated , cheap and effective)
When over nighting on the road in winter I put anti freeze in the waste tank
Cracking site in St Moritz (Samedan) called Punta Muragl
Good luck
Hope this will help you a little
Hi. Excellent advice from obviously experienced winter motorhomers - wish I had read this before going away last month!! Actually travelled to Turkey via Rumania and Bulgaria .Very cold at -13degrees some nights. On the way back travelled through Austria + Southern Germany and again it was absolutely Baltic! What surprises me from the captions above is the comparative lack of freezing pipes experienced by the contributors. Our pipes froze frequently and (probably wrongly)- we kept heating up the boiler so that warm water was omnipresent( REALLY CONCERNED TO READ THAT THIS WAS INADVISABLE!) . Have returned home and fingers crossed - the only negative identified is a water leak from a pipe which I suspect runs from the shower. Certainly there seems no damage to the boiler but from the blog above this appears to be very good fortune more than anything else! Am amazed that some others didn't experience similar frozen pipe problems especially when temps were as low as -10 degrees as in one instance quoted above.
Tall Paul wrote---I am on the lookout for external screens and also covers for the gas bottles
I would not recommend covering the gas bottles. As mentioned on other threads this could be counter productive. When in use the bottles will cool the adjacent area so if confined will tend to freeze up.
Is this a record for a resusciated thread? First post is 2004 followed by a lot more that year then it got three posts in 2005 then some more in 2006 then a gap to yesterday.
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We are off ski-ing in Feb and i must say thanks to all of you i have read some good tips on here ........Very helpful
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