Arctic package?

[Robwis975]

Hello all, and ty in advance. My wife and I purchased a 2022 springdale 293rk in July. My mother in law is elderly so we needed to be close, and due to the wonderful economic status here in the US, I lost a very good job and was forced to take a much less lucrative one, and we relocated to our property bordering My mother in laws.
I digress. The TT we purchased in July has an "arctic package" sticker, however there are no tank heaters, nor are the tank outlets wrapped or enclosed. If temps drop below 30, we have to run a space heater in the pump area, or the pump outlet to the water system freezes. We only had pipes freeze once when temps dropped to sub zero, but we ran out of propane and were out of town. A new tank and a couple hours of the heat on high, and those thawed too. Bottom of the TT is covered in a thick plastic cover bolted in place, and there is an open heat duct between the floor and underbelly cover. Is this a true "artic package" we did not have time to get any type of skirting in place yet. We're running heated hoses for water, however don't like the "hose taste". Other than the occasional "inlet" freezing up we've had no issues. We live in north central PA. Have we just gotten lucky and have many battles ahead, or in theory, should we be ok. So far we've faced about 8 days straight with temps in the low teens and night and low 20s during the day but then it warms up to temps +30 at night. Wr have HORRIBLE luck, and I'm worried we're gonna end up in a bad situation heat/water/black tank wise. Any words of encouragement or caution anyone could provide?

 

[DutchmenSport]

There are hundreds of posts on how to protect a camper in cold weather and hundreds of web sites that provide all kinds of tips and advice and "how to's". But, in the end, they all equate to only one end result, and that is to keep heat around anything that could potentially freeze.

Most folks in cold weather climates will install some kind of under skirting around their camper as a start. Others will install some kind of heater system under the camper inside the under skirting. Others run heated electric elements along their hoses and the water spigot bib.

And here's the uncommon - common element about ALL our campers .... no two of them are the same. Everyone one has it's own unique requirements to prevent frozen water to occur. And, the options to make that happen are as diverse as the person who owns the camper.

No one can say if your set-up will provide a bullet proof, fool proof result. All you can do is use your creative skills and some common sense and hope for the best. One thing is certain though.... if the weather gets cold enough, something will eventually freeze. The goal is to keep one step above that line.

Definitely, your strongest defense against cold weather is to keep your on-board furnace running.