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Tips on de-winterizing

You need to have a water hose hooked up to the camper.  Some have one connection for city water and another connection to fill your fresh tank.  A toyhauler likely has one connection with valves to change between using city hookup and filling the fresh tank.  

Start by filling the fresh tank with 5 - 10 gallons.  Then open the white drain valve to dump the fresh tank.  Once it's emptied, close the valve and put another 10 gallons of water in it.

Set the water control valves to use the water from the fresh tank ( dry camping ) and turn on your pump.  One by one, turn on each faucet and let it run until they stop pouring pink. After this is done, turn off the pump and switch to city water and run one faucet for a few minutes. 

Now, it's time to sanitize.  Turn off your water hose and disconnect it.  Hold it down close to the ground to let some of the water drain out of the hose.  Next, for each 10 gallons of fresh water capacity, pour a half cup of liquid bleach into your water hose. For example, if you have a 40 gallon fresh tank, put 2 cups of bleach in the hose.  Then, reconnect the hose to the camper. Fill the fresh tank to full capacity.

Once the tank is full, turn the pump on again and turn on each faucet one at a time until you smell the bleach coming thru. 

Now, let it all sit for 3 hours or more.  It's ok if it sits longer, some recommend overnight.

When you're ready to flush out the bleach, first dump the remaining water from the fresh tank.  Fill and dump the fresh tank a couple of times.  After this, repeat the process listed above.  Except, this time you'll be smelling for the bleach to get clear of the line at each faucet instead of looking for pink.

Next, you'll want to look at your water heater, if it's tankless there's nothing you need to do.  Most tankless systems will have a temp control panel in the bathroom.

If the water heater has a tank check to make sure the drain plug is installed. This will be behind the cover on the outside.  Next you'll want to get to the back of the water heater on the inside of the camper and look at the valves.  There will likely be 3.  There will be an outlet labeled as hot and an inlet labeled as cold.  Or, it might just have red and blue stickers. There will be a pipe that runs straight from one to the other with a valve in the middle of it, you'll want that valve closed. Each outlet should have a valve also, those are already closed and need to be open.  If you're unsure of the valve positions, send me a picture and I'll try to help.

Now, you're ready to fill the water heater tank.  Set your valves to city water and go inside and open one of the hot water faucets and let it run until the air stops coming thru the faucet.

Congratulations, you just de-winterized and sanitized your own camper.

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