Learn How to Winterize an RV

The easy way to winterize your RV is with the winterizing kit, that's already installed just on this side of the water pump. Some companies offer it as an option. If not, you can buy it as an aftermarket. And literally all it is is a valve. By turning this valve, and putting the hose down in the antifreeze, it's gonna draw antifreeze into the system. So we'll just go in and open up the faucets until we see pink antifreeze. This unit happens to have one already built in. So we go down here and we see we've got our antifreeze hose right here. The first thing we want to do is make sure we drain all the water out of this system. We've got our valves in here, get it out of the freshwater system. And then with our valve here, inline with the valve is telling we're coming out of the water tank, up through the water pump. By turning it to this position right here, I'm gonna draw it out of this hose. So all I have to do is bring my hose down here, turn on my water pump, and then go inside and just open up the faucets until I see pink antifreeze. So we've just drawn almost an entire gallon into our system with our water pump. It has shut off now. So I know we've got all our lines inside are full. We're gonna go inside and open up the faucets and the showers and the toilet and everything, make sure that all the lines are blown out. But we are gonna need some more antifreeze. So I'm gonna put this into this jug. 'Cause as I open those faucets I'm going to still have some water in the lines. So it's going to be drawing more. We're probably gonna use about two gallons of antifreeze in this to get all the lines filled with it. Okay, we wanna make sure you do our toilet as well, because we've got water lines that are coming to there. So we're gonna just pull it up. We see right away, we've got antifreeze coming through. Just dump that out, and don't forget your sprayer as well. We see we got some clear water here, so we're gonna let it run until we start to get some pink antifreeze through there. So we've drawn antifreeze into our kitchen faucet, our bathroom sink, our shower, and the toilet and sprayer. Let's go out and see how much antifreeze we used. So we just filled all the lines inside, opened all the faucets, the water filter system, the shower, the toilet, everything. And I see we did about another gallon in there. So now I know I have my entire system filled in the inside of it. I don't have to worry about anything freezing. And I can store my vehicle or I can even use it a little bit in the winter time.