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Thanks for your info. I thought that this might be the best way to keep things from freezing, and it most likely is. I did buy a small electric heater yesterday that I was intending to just put on the concrete floor of the garage and see if it would heat the whole garage up enough to prevent freezing temps in there. I don't know if that's any safer than running the Hydo-Hot electric without me around???? Any thoughts on that out there?
Good advice on the starting thing. I will just drive it around some from now on to thoroughly warm it up. Thanks.

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Glen,

Mine's garaged but were freezing our you know what's off here in

GA,

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down to 19 last night. I have been running the Hydro-Hot on > electric, and setting the furnace at 50. What a great system. My > thermostat in the plumbing bay was set at 45 and I turned it down

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35 so it doesn't have to run as much. I check things every few

days,

I have my '04 Magna parked outside of Portland, OR in an RV garage > facility. It's a 48'X 14'enclosed garage with insulated ceiling.

have the coach plugged into 50 amp service. My question is:

the best way to keep it safe during periods below freezing? I

to visit it regularly (start it up, etc.), and like keeping some > water in the fresh water tank for washing hands, using the

etc. I have the heated bathroom/kitchen tiles set at about 80 > degrees, which should keep the interior of the coach from dipping > below freezing temps, but what about the holding tanks/fresh water > tanks? If the coach is warmed some inside, will this keep those > tanks from freezing? How about the water filter for the fresh > water? I guess that I could turn the Hydro-Hot system on electric > (wouldn't want the diesel burner running in an enclosed garage)

turn the coach's furnace on at a temp that would keep the interior > above freezing, but kind of hate leaving things like that on with

away from the coach for days at a time. Any advice would be > appreciated. I have read the manual about "winterizing", but I > would like to have it "liveable" with water in it during this

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Thanks for your info. I thought that this might be the best way > to keep things from freezing, and it most likely is. I did buy a > small electric heater yesterday that I was intending to just put

the concrete floor of the garage and see if it would heat the

garage up enough to prevent freezing temps in there. I don't know > if that's any safer than running the Hydo-Hot electric without me > around???? Any thoughts on that out there? >

Good advice on the starting thing. I will just drive it around

from now on to thoroughly warm it up. Thanks.
>

> Glen,

> Mine's garaged but were freezing our you know what's off here in > GA,

> down to 19 last night. I have been running the Hydro-Hot on > > electric, and setting the furnace at 50. What a great system. My > > thermostat in the plumbing bay was set at 45 and I turned it

to

> 35 so it doesn't have to run as much. I check things every few > days,

> but all this is made to run full time in cold weather. As far as > > starting it up, I think your better off driving it once in

instead of the starts, it really doesn't do much good IMO.

thing on a diesel is a cold start and short duration without it > > getting to normal operating temperature. Others will dispute

I have my '04 Magna parked outside of Portland, OR in an RV garage > facility. It's a 48'X 14'enclosed garage with insulated ceiling.

have the coach plugged into 50 amp service. My question is:

the best way to keep it safe during periods below freezing? I like > to visit it regularly (start it up, etc.), and like keeping some > water in the fresh water tank for washing hands, using the

etc. I have the heated bathroom/kitchen tiles set at about 80 > degrees, which should keep the interior of the coach from dipping > below freezing temps, but what about the holding tanks/fresh water > tanks? If the coach is warmed some inside, will this keep those > tanks from freezing? How about the water filter for the fresh > water? I guess that I could turn the Hydro-Hot system on electric > (wouldn't want the diesel burner running in an enclosed garage) and > turn the coach's furnace on at a temp that would keep the interior > above freezing, but kind of hate leaving things like that on with

away from the coach for days at a time. Any advice would be > appreciated. I have read the manual about "winterizing", but I > would like to have it "liveable" with water in it during this

> Looks like a safe thing to have it stored inside. For six years now

>

Even when outside temp drops to 10 or 15 degrees, the garage temp

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All I do is keep my hot water heater switch on and fire up the

>

For the first couple of years I heated the garage with an auxiliary

Larry