npenn
Oregon
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MH magazine says they don't recommend that as it still leaves enough water in the lines to cause lines to break. They only recommend using the anti-freeze after blowing the lines out. I've never blown the lines out in almost 53 years of RV'ing, but I have used the anti-freeze. Have yet to have a broken pipe.
Every year they are post on the forum about people who just blew the lines out, it didn't work so they ended up with broken pipes.
Where I live and the poster the temperature is rather mild compared to lets say Fargo, ND. The blow out works in our environments and I have a question.
Blow out the lines and then add anti-freeze seems redundant because If you run anti-freeze until the faucet runs pink, what would be the point of going to all the effort to blow the lines out?
Not challenging MH magazine but just wondering.
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harleyfire18
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I agree just blowing out the lines seems to me that this would be enough. I just use a pick up tube connected to my pump to draw the antifreeze in and then just run my faucets and shower heads until I have good pink coming through. This year I bought a air line hook up to blow out the lines because that is what everyone recamends...but why??
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JJBIRISH
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Well I am redundant times two then…
I blow out the lines to remove the water…
Pour in some antifreeze…
then blow out the antifreeze…
Nothing left behind is pure water and the antifreeze ends up in the traps…
Takes only a few minuets, I know everything is protected, and use very little antifreeze…
Every fall I read hundreds of post saying I just blow the lines out and never had a problem…
Every spring I read daily about leaks , broken fittings, broken valves…
Just makes you wonder…
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pianotuna
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Hi JJBIRISH,
I do the same thing--but save the antifreeze that I blow out to use again the next cycle of winterizing--but then I winterize 5 to 7 times per winter.
JJBIRISH wrote:Well I am redundant times two then…
I blow out the lines to remove the water…
Pour in some antifreeze…
then blow out the antifreeze…
Nothing left behind is pure water and the antifreeze ends up in the traps…
Takes only a few minuets, I know everything is protected, and use very little antifreeze…
Every fall I read hundreds of post saying I just blow the lines out and never had a problem…
Every spring I read daily about leaks , broken fittings, broken valves…
Just makes you wonder…
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Dave & Nannette
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I thought when I first bought my RV that it was gonna be very hard to pump the pink stuff through the pipes. But I have been doing it now ever since the second year I bought the thing (2001 I paid someone to do it) and paid about 50 dollars. But doing it yourself is really a breeze. All you need is the RV pump and adapter kit, and of course the RV antifreeze (mine took less then 3 bottles)
I think, instead of chancing it, just winterize it yourself by using the pink stuff or blowing out the pipes. That way you have a better guarantee all is well thru the winter.
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