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Originally Posted by buzzcop63
1. Heating with the furnace brings in a lot of moisture, venting can help if you are not dealing with real low temperatures. A better way is to use electric heat, which is drying and pulls moisture out of the air. Dehumidifiers can also be used to pull some of the water out of the air. Using a combination of furnace and an electric heater can work, keep in mind that freezing temperatures will require the furnace to be run to heat the basement and its tanks.
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Originally Posted by Ken / Claudia
Call me old school and because I read to many OSP reports nearly every fall about troopers finding people who had been sleeping in closed up RVs and did not get fresh air and had furnace venting problems. I have a window cracked open somewhere in any RV I sleep in and a vent open part or full. Yeah I use more propane and would change if I full timed. At the coast or in the valley I do not have inside moisture problem's.
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I don't believe gas furnace places moisture in the air, yes, burning propane results in moisture, BUT the combustion chamber in the furnace is sealed!! The combustion uses OUTSIDE air and it exhausts to the outside. Inside the trailer the same air is recirculated over the furnace heat exchanger and picks up heat NOT moisture.
The moisture comes from bodies in the trailer, venting is the way to prevent condensation. Even in cold weather you need to vent the moisture.
ON EDIT: I might also add that we now in the winter run our furnace while on the road! We set the t-stat at about 60 degrees, typlical drive to the coast is about two to two and a half hours, when we arrive the trailer is warm, and because we always have a couple vents open (Vent Covers are your friend) a lot of the "dampness" is also out by then.
I will also add that our last month on the coast we only used electric heat. I had installed the RV Comfort Systems "Cheap Heat" add-on system to our 30,000 BTU furnace. It worked GREAT!
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