How Do I Know If My MH Is Winterised, Please? (7 Viewers)

[Peavy]

Have a look if you find something like this nearby the heater.
It's a lever that alllow you to deviate some of the heat from the heater unit to the waste water tank, to avoid freezing.
That would mean the waste water tank would be isolated and had an inlet to allow this heat to move around it and thus avoid it to get frozen.

 

[Onemanandhisdog]

Have a look if you find something like this nearby the heater.
It's a lever that alllow you to deviate some of the heat from the heater unit to the waste water tank, to avoid freezing.
That would mean the waste water tank would be isolated and had an inlet to allow this heat to move around it and thus avoid it to get frozen.
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Mine does that without the lever

 

[Mleabon]

I think there are different levels of winterisation. The ultimate being double floors with all pipework and tanks in that heated space. But my Hobby Optima is winterised. The water tank is inboard and the grey waste is insulated and heated. I have been fine down to -19c. At that temperature we were fine inside but had issues with the Comformatic gearbox. I have insulated outside pipes myself, use a bucket for the grey waste and put silver bubble wrap in all the skylights. I have an insulated screen cover and a cover for the front to stop drafts coming in through the engine compartment. Occasionally pipes have frozen on one side but have been fine by lunchtime when it's been say-15c overnight.

 

[HKF]

Have a look if you find something like this nearby the heater.
It's a lever that alllow you to deviate some of the heat from the heater unit to the waste water tank, to avoid freezing.
That would mean the waste water tank would be isolated and had an inlet to allow this heat to move around it and thus avoid it to get frozen.
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I don't think I have anything like that.

 

[HKF]

I'm surprised that wasn't the first question asked, who knows, it might even tell the OP in/on the MH handbook?

Just to say that the handbook is in French and I don't speak French at all. I've been unable to find an English version anywhere online and it's pages and pages long, far too long to scan it in and OCR it.

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[Jon Stewart]

Just to say that the handbook is in French and I don't speak French at all. I've been unable to find an English version anywhere online and it's pages and pages long, far too long to scan it in and OCR it.

If you have an android phone, Google Lens, part of Google photos (perhaps available for iPhone as well?), will translate a page in French from a photo of the page.

If you have an android tablet, or a laptop with Google photos, think you can do the same thing (can't remember the detailed sequence of how to).

Perhaps start with the table of contents at the front to figure general location!

 

[HKF]

If you have an android phone, Google Lens, part of Google photos (perhaps available for iPhone as well?), will translate a page in French from a photo of the page.

If you have an android tablet, or a laptop with Google photos, think you can do the same thing (can't remember the detailed sequence of how to).

Perhaps start with the table of contents at the front to figure general location!

I don't have a smartphone at all. I have a camera and could upload a photo to my laptop, I suppose. It would be a very long-winded process.

 

[Jon Stewart]

I don't have a smartphone at all. I have a camera and could upload a photo to my laptop, I suppose. It would be a very long-winded process.

Having now seen the one at the owners club, I'm beginning to think that the manual may not even tell you.

However, I'd take a photo of the TOC and get it translated for anything related to water or storage or frost.

You get the idea.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

 

[HKF]

Having now seen the one at the owners club, I'm beginning to think that the manual may not even tell you.

However, I'd take a photo of the TOC and get it translated for anything related to water or storage or frost.

You get the idea.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Sorry but.....TOC?

 

[Itsmcb]

Turn up the heating and put a bucket under the open waste pipe and your sorted for a cold weekend. Longer and colder trips require better preparation .

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[Itsmcb]

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[Jon Stewart]

Sorry but.....TOC?

Table of Contents, sorry.

 

[mitzimad]

Our burstner is single flpor waste tank underneath and we survived minus 12 in val des alr

 

[Simon Meadwell]

Dont think winterised is a specific specification just a termonology and all manufacturers have a different take on it.
We have a double floor with all pipes inside but the grey waste in underneath outside so only semi winterised.

 

[L' Hobo]

Dont think winterised is a specific specification just a termonology and all manufacturers have a different take on it.
We have a double floor with all pipes inside but the grey waste in underneath outside so only semi winterised.

I agree, winterised is a term that has to be treated with a degree of scepticism.

I viewed a new PVC last year that was advertised as 'winterised' except the tanks were underslung and bare.
When I queried this with a salesman, he said it was winterised because the freshwater one had a heater.

On some of the Ski trips I've been on, a small heater would do nothing!

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[Coastal Cruiser.]

If this is you in the morning a few months time then it’s not winterised