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Post by turborob on Oct 16, 2020 9:45:10 GMT -5
Hey all. I have a '21 333RLT. I'm up in Bay City, MI and am planning on living full time in it until after the new year. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with any particular skirting system that works well with these rigs. I'd prefer to have something more "professional" looking than simply throwing up some plywood or hay bales as this is my home and plan on living in it a quite a bit for a few years.
I was going to order a 50' heated hose but I see a lot of people say to just fill your fresh tank and live off that.
Any suggestions for winter living is appreciated, I'd like to be prepared.
Thanks,
Rob
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Post by laknox on Oct 16, 2020 11:11:25 GMT -5
Hey all. I have a '21 333RLT. I'm up in Bay City, MI and am planning on living full time in it until after the new year. I'm wondering if anyone has experience with any particular skirting system that works well with these rigs. I'd prefer to have something more "professional" looking than simply throwing up some plywood or hay bales as this is my home and plan on living in it a quite a bit for a few years. I was going to order a 50' heated hose but I see a lot of people say to just fill your fresh tank and live off that. Any suggestions for winter living is appreciated, I'd like to be prepared. Thanks, Rob Rob, I have zero experience in this, but have been reading RV fora for 13 years (plus I stayed in a Holiday Inn recently) and my take on it would be to buy some sheet or rolled coroplast (same stuff as the belly covering) and use that as your skirting. Might double it up for extra insulation. Main thing is to keep a dead air space under your rig. A lot of people will use a couple 100w bulbs under there to help heat the space, too. Use electric space heaters as well as your furnace for heat. Remember, you =have= to have your furnace fan running to heat the underbelly. Leave cabinets open for air circulation or you can freeze pipes. Some use small fans to help with this, if necessary. Rent a 100 lb propane bottle. If you're in a park, the propane companies will usually make regular rounds to fill them and just bill you. If you're on private land, rent a 250 gal tank, or even 500 gal. Don't forget to skirt around the underside of the hitch area. Again, dead air space. If you're in a park, make sure the =pedestal= is heated or you might not get =any= water, even if you plan on running off the tank. (Personally, I think I'd fill the fresh tank but run off the park water and leave internal water as a backup.) That's all I can think of, offhand. I'm sure others can add a few. Lyle |
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Post by Chuck on Oct 20, 2020 18:42:20 GMT -5
turborob if your living in a RV park look around what others are doing, by now I'm sure you know what cold weath er is in Bay City Ugh !!! If you on a private lot some people use canvas an straw bales around their trailers /// Also you can buy canvas an snaps an snap such around your trailer, of course you have to attach the snaps to your trailer an some owners don't like such ... Buying a large propane tank is a must again looking around in an RV park you will see such, Also heated hose is great but the pedestal were you get your water from should have heat to it or at least something to protect it from the weather, ie ice an snow an I can tell you in Bay City MI you will see plenty of that, been there an got that T-shirt many years ago ... Please do not use any type of propane heater in your RV, light bulbs under trailer are ok as well but not touching the ground or you RV, suspend them off something, we use to use 100watt bulbs ... If you not paying for power electric heaters are great, if you pay for power the suck energy like no tomorrow as you more than likely already know ... Good Luck an Stay warm  Chuck |
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Post by Edd505 on Oct 21, 2020 23:11:38 GMT -5
Guess if I were to do this I would do hay bales under the edge and cover the bales skirted with beadboard. The beadboards cheap, in most box stores like Home Depot or Lowes. The beadboards almost like siding and can be painted, run vertical or horizontal. This was our cabin in the Idaho pan handle so I know a little about cold weather the second pictures a neighbor warming herself, the wood stoves just inside.
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Post by Chuck on Oct 24, 2020 17:37:08 GMT -5
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Post by mkpaint on Oct 26, 2020 21:37:48 GMT -5
I live in mine, and we have a heated hose. Which only helps as long as parks water stays working. Right now it’s under 30 here and parks water is froze. Luckily we had filled our fresh water tank. So we will be ok till it thaws. We are running the furnace just enough to keep underbelly from freezing. Our electric is included here so we use electric when we can.
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Post by Chuck on Nov 11, 2020 10:09:12 GMT -5
Winter really sucks in IN, Ill. Mich, Ohio, NY around the Great lakes, living in Northern Ohio a s young
man we use to get 102 to 110 inches of snow a year, may days below zero Ugh !!! Lake Erie were we lived
would freeze to the point you could drive a car out on the lake at times a mile or so ... People would buy
old cars tow them out on the lake cut a hole in the floor an Ice fish out of the car, when spring came they
just left the car out there an let it sink ...
Every year you would here of fisherman stranded on the ice because they waited to long to get that last
catch of fish an the ice would brake up an there they on their Ice Shanty would be a-drift in the lake ...
Chuck
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