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Post by Paisano on Oct 7, 2016 17:07:13 GMT -5
Our new Durango Gold has a residential refrigerator that has a water line hooked up to it to make ice-cubes. Does anyone have experience with winterization of such residential refrigerators? For winterization I plan to first drain the water lines and then blow out the lines as I would do for faucet lines etc. I hesitate filling the lines and ice cube tray with antifreeze. Has anyone winterized without putting antifreeze in the lines and not having any problems in the spring?
One other question. During winter storage of the RV the sides are pulled in preventing us from leaving the bottom freezer door open as we do for the refrigerator door. I assume putting a desiccant in the freezer to minimize /prevent mold growth would be sufficient. Any comments?
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Post by johnr on Oct 10, 2016 6:50:17 GMT -5
Hi,
I don't know about winterizing those lines, sorry.
For the freezer, I'd get that puppy as dry as humanly possible before having to close the door. Are you able to open it up the day before storage and run a fan on it? A dessicant pack will definitely help, but it won't absorb huge amounts of moisture.
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Post by Paisano on Oct 11, 2016 8:42:02 GMT -5
Thanks we plan on keeping the door open for while before closing it up.
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Post by sandymelody on Oct 13, 2016 15:37:10 GMT -5
Years ago when we lived up North we had a boat we had to winterize and we used something pink we got from Boat US that is a fluid that will not freeze made from beet juice so it is safe for water lines. This was over twenty years ago but maybe that's an option.
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Post by ronc on Oct 20, 2016 18:03:36 GMT -5
What we do is plug the rig into a 120v outlet (just as though we were plugged in to shore power) and this allows the fridge to run and the batteries to charge. Residential refrigerators are designed to run 24/7 for many years. Although I only have an opinion, I wouldn't think that long term shutdowns are good for a residential refrigerator. I will follow this post to see what others think about this. I really hadn't thought about turning it off for an extended period, as I said, we just pug our trailer in which maintains the batteries and runs the fridge.
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Post by shogunles on Dec 16, 2016 20:17:03 GMT -5
We had a residential fridge in our last Fiver. When I called Open Range on how to winterize it, they said to shut down the water supply to it, and manually drain the system as if you were going to get water from the water outlet. And run until dry. Then leave the ice maker on with the water off. I did that and the following spring I had to replace the internal water line and reservoir. I called Frigidaire directly, as it was one of their models. They replied that they do not recommend using that fridge in an RV! The following Winter I ran RV Antifreeze through the entire Fridge water system without issue. Just remember to replace the filter after you de-winterize the system. I did not feel confident blowing those lines out. Good Luck!
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Post by netjam on Dec 17, 2016 11:34:42 GMT -5
Have many friends with residential fridges who stay in Canada (we go south) over the winter and store their rv. They drain the lines and leave it. All have been fine. We put a res fridge in our Escalade 3 years ago and move every week or two. We do not have an inverter so the fridge travels without power (stays cold easily for 8 hours + if you don't open the door). The constant power/no power has not created problems yet.
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Post by Paisano on Apr 9, 2017 11:48:44 GMT -5
Well last fall I went ahead and winterized our residential refrigerator by draining the residual water from the refrigerator after shutting the refrigerator off. We have a 2016 Druango 359 RET where the refrig. water drain is above the wheel axes on couch/kitchen slide out. Then blew out the line along with all the other water lines in the camper. Then pumped RV antifreeze through all the lines including the water line going to the refrigerator. I could not determine whether any antifreeze made it to the ice cube making trays. The Dealer had told me to slide a paper towel into the ice cube maker and note whether you detect antifreeze on the paper (red color). I did not detect any antifreeze; however when I momentarily opened the refrigerator drain, antifreeze flowed out so I assumed antifreeze got to the ice cube maker. This procedure appears to have worked. We just dewinterized the camper this spring and turned on the refrigerator and let it run awhile, it successfully made ice cubes. The first few batches were red colored indicating made of antifreeze and then the rest were just water. From the comments I got, pumping antifreeze into the refrigerator line may have been an overkill.
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