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As cold as it is there your Solitude looks like it should handle the cold fairly well by looking at the brochure.
I think what senix means is duct work and by the Grand design brochure you have a fully heated under belly/ storage bay (pg 5). Keeping in mind that it gets the heat from the furnace. You could plug in a 100 watt light bulb down there and it will give off heat.
-2 will test your rig for sure.
I understand now. Yes, the underbelly is enclosed and insulated. I have one of those small utility heaters down there so I don't have to burn as much propane. The furnace doesn't start cycling until it gets into the low teens with the 2 heaters I have in the camper.
Not too bad. For a cold day, high of 1 low of -6, the water didn't freeze until after the sun went down last night. That's with the furnace running. It was already working at 0630 this morning and the temp had only gotten up to 8f. I think we are good to about -3f without issues.
I think it was the feed line from the tank to the pump that froze. There is no water to the sites where we are at. Have to hit the fire hydrant every few days. I may did around to see if I can get at that line to heat tape and insulate it.
hmmmm, I feed off the tank as well when that cold and have not had any issue.
In my basement, there is an access door for the furnance, pump and hot water heater.
It would be easy for me to use some heat tape in that location.
If you have an access door there that might be easy to do.
I took a quick look yesterday but will have to explore further. I have a small heater in the access door. I can get to the first couple of feet of line (where its warm) but from there I'm not sure where it goes.
I mainly boondock and when the weather starts getting cold I'll take a wool blanket and put it in the outside compartment connection area, also take some towels and wrap/ protect the pump and misc. water lines near that area even though it's heated like yours. Also inside the compartment I use the pipe insulation on the water lines.
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