today we're going to go over how to winterize your travel trailer
well at least i'm going to show you how i winterize mine let's see if there's any
kind of tips or tricks that you could pick up to help you do yours all right for some
of the things that i'm going to need in order to winterize my rv our sockets a ratchet a funnel
a pair of channel lock pliers rv antifreeze and an air compressor so for the first step
i'm going to locate my low point drains open those up so that water can start draining out
all right the next thing that i want to do is i want to come over to the water heater
and take out the anode rod for two reasons one is to check the anode rod to see if it needs to be
replaced and the other is to drain all the water out of the water heater all right this next step
is very important i got to go inside of my rv and turn on the bypasses for the water heater
there's two valves on my water heater that will actually turn the water heater off to
the water system so that when we start pushing all the antifreeze through it won't push it into
the water heater all right now that i got my water heater bypassed i want to push out all
the residual water that i can i'm going to do that by using one of these fittings what i'm going to
do is put this into where my water hose would normally go your city water connection and i'm
going to hook my air compressor to it and push air through the system to try to push out any water
the reason i want to do that is to make sure that there's no residual water in there as i
start pushing the antifreeze through now a special note to remember when you put air
pressure on your system do not go over 30 pounds of air that'll make sure that you don't blow out
any of your water lines by air pressure all right now that we've got that done it's almost time to
start pushing the antifreeze through the rv but before we do that we got to go back up underneath
close those low point drains so that as we start pushing it through it doesn't drain
back out onto the ground all right this is where the really fun part starts where
you're going to start putting antifreeze into your system so that you can winterize your rv
now what i'm going to do is take this funnel it's nothing more than just a garden hose
an old 2-liter bottle attach them together take them up made myself a funnel i'm going to open
up right here the fresh water connection and i'm gonna put this inside of it and start pouring my
rv antifreeze in now i put in about four to five gallons of antifreeze that way i have plenty to be
able to run through the system with my fresh water pump now that being said you remember back before
i said i've got that fresh water tank drain now having that any leftover antifreeze i haven't used
i can open up that drain valve put it right back into the one gallon jugs and reuse it for another
time now that i've got the antifreeze inside of the tank i'm ready to turn on my fresh water pump
to start pushing it through the rv what i'm going to do is go to each one of the faucets i got two
on the outside the little shower heads i got the faucet in the kitchen area the rv
i've got the shower oh and that's right i got a fifth one the sink in the bathroom also what
i'm gonna do is turn all those on until i start seeing the fluid coming through turn them back
off and then i am done so come with me as we start getting the antifreeze through the system
all right now the antifreeze has pushed through the whole system everything has antifreeze in it
that it needs in order to protect itself over the winter now in order to get all that antifreeze out
i need one last step to be done i'm going to take those empty jugs put underneath that freshwater
tank drain drain all that out and then flush it i don't need to run the pump no more but i am going
to put fresh water in there to kind of rinse out all that antifreeze that we had just put in
now i know you may ask in the springtime how do i undo all this good hard work that i've just done
well it's the same thing that we just did today but in reverse that way at the very end when you
open up your water heater and everything else it's all done and ready to go for you in the
springtime the only difference here is is that you're going to use fresh water to do everything
that you just did today so let's go ahead get what antifreeze i have in the tank now back into
the jugs i'm going to fill up the freshwater tank rinse it out and then i'll be right back
all right one last place that we need to make sure that we get our antifreeze into is the toilet now
you don't have to open up the toilet and pour it down into the black tank but you do need to make
sure that your black tank is empty what you need to do is leave the flap alone don't push on the
pedal pour some of that antifreeze over top of that ring put about an inch or two above it that
way during the winter that antifreeze will protect that ring now for me i've noticed over the winter
time that i've had to go in there periodically and check to make sure that the antifreeze is over top
of it the reason for that is it's a rubber seal you don't want that rubber seal to get
dry over the winter time so you want to keep the antifreeze over there now the reason for putting
that antifreeze in there is so that it doesn't freeze while it's protecting your seal all right
so that just about does it for how i winterize my rv if you do yours in different ways if you
have a fifth wheel you have a water works system or anything like that share that in the comments
below because people are going to be watching this video and they're going to want to know because
that season is coming so share that down below in the comments for others to read and maybe they'll
connect with you and see how you do yours now another reason that i do mind the way that i do
is because we do camp during the winter now i don't want my lines to freeze up while i'm
sitting at home but we do go out quite often once a month maybe twice a month in the winter time
and this system that i've come up with helps me a bunch by having the winterize over
and over and over again so i hope you enjoyed all the content you got out of the video today
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