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Originally Posted by BrooksFam
No winterizing here. We'll be living in ours (for about 6 months) starting in about a week while building a house. This will be interesting. Thinking of a way to put an inexpensive skirt on it for the winter.
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"Inexpensive" is a "qualified term"... If you mean, only a few bucks, then buy a couple of "blue poly tarps" and cut them to fit around your trailer, crawl under it and clean the inside of the J-wrap with alcohol/409, etc and tape the tarp pieces in place, then use dirt to shovel on the bottom edge of the tarp pieces to hold them down.... You'll likely get the same "longivety" as you'll get "durability" with this type of skirt.....
A bit more expensive, but a bit easier to install and better quality, buy some 1" sheets of rigid "building foam" (sold in 4'x8' sheets at any building supply store). Build a 1x2 framework around your trailer with the top extending above the j-wrap. cut the rigid foam to fit the space (from the ground to about 6" above the bottom of the j-wrap. Then use screws and fender washers to secure the rigid foam to the 1x2 framework. Leave a door so you can access the underside of the trailer and when it gets "extremely cold" you can crawl under the trailer, position a drop light with a 100 watt incandescent bulb to help warm the holding tanks/fresh water tank/sewer outlets.
Then, for "truly expensive", there are companies that measure and build heavy vinyl skirting (think convertible auto folding tops) custom built to fit your trailer, installed with snaps or twist lock fasteners, removeable for transporting and held in place with sand bags.
The top suggestion, tarps and tape will probably cost around $100. The middle, rigid foam and 1x2 framework, around $250 and the bottom, custom skirting, anywhere from $500 to well over $2500.