The Best RV Winter Setup: How to RV in Winter and the Gear That Will Keep You Cozy Warm!
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- Camping in cold weather poses some challenges and could be a bad experience but with a little planning, a winter camping trip in cold weather can still be a lot of fun. Read more about winter camping and the products we use on the blog. mortonsonthemove.com/cold-wea...
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Thanks for joining us in the cold!❄️ We usually chase 70 degrees but this winter have hunkered down in the cold. Want a Discount? Were always looking for ways to pass savings on to you and have negotiated discounts on RV skirting and The Best heated water hoses for you! Check them out on our deals page. bit.ly/MortonDeals
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Her presentation skills are excellent - and very pleasant.
Agreed!
She is my favourite now. It is such a relief to hear someone explain things and sound assured & confident. I stop watching most videos because people? Talk? Like this?
Thank you. Subscribing.
Very well narrated. She is very easy to listen to.
This girl just rocked the entire how to camp in cold weather scenario to the max. I like this girl
The best video I have seen concerning cold weather camping precautions. You explained everything perfectly. I like the skirting on your RV. You are very articulate.
Thank you! :)
Anyone remember infomercials of days gone by?????
This is the absolute best one I've ever seen!!
I see questions about winter camping online everyday. You’ve provided a wonderful reference for someone spending the winter in their RV. Great instructional video. Thank you for taking the time and effort to put this together.
Thank you so much! :)
The best instructions and information I’ve seen. So easy to understand and how it works. Safe travels and merry Christmas 🎄
Thank you! Merry Christmas!
Great video! You guys have the best produced RV videos. I wish you would do more. While spending the winter in Texas a couple years ago our biggest problem was the slide outs. We were near Port Aransas so we did not have freezing temps but it was very windy. The cables from the slides enter openings directly into the trailer. We used gorilla tape around the openings to seal them off and rolled up towels on the inside to seal around the slide. Pool noodles or pipe insulation works on the sides but the area on top was too large. We did purchase a dehumidifier which helped tremendously with moisture. It helps to run your exhaust fan while showering and keep the bathroom door closed so that humidity doesn’t enter the remainder of the RV. Do most of your cooking in a crock pot or pressure cooker to reduce moisture. Stay safe!
Glad you liked it and thanks for sharing your tips! :)
Awesome video, awesome couple, loved the camping in the snow . Great presentation on camping in the cold. Keep up the great videos. Take care and God Bless You Both and fur babies!
Thanks so much! Glad you enjoyed it :)
This is the best winter RVing video so far! So informative and to the point. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
You are Back!! Yeah! Watching now!
Awesome video! As my wife and I live full time in our FW and we are currently in Up-State New York, your presentation of the cold weather prep was spot on. We have gone so far as to place clear plastic on the window to reduce warm air loss. Yes, we leave two small windows uncovered so that we can get good airflow. And our egress windows remain unimpeded. We have had our "Sinky Slinky freeze before. To help reduce that problem, we use a moving blanket to cover the outside release valve. Seems to help. Once again, great video. Will continue to view your channel.
Thank you! Stay warm!
Could you explain the blanket on release valve part? Im living in my 2005 Fifth Wheel this winter in central vermont.😬 Everyone thinks im stupid. Maybe i am. Haha! But, i wanna get all the tips i can. And you seem pretty knowledgeable!
This is our 1st year wintering in our Rv and we are so thankful for your suggestions. We actually loved the Custom RV skirting so much (we don't care for the look of the snap version) that we will be traveling to Rapid City, the 1st week in Nov, from Eastern Washington to get ours custom made along with the Thermaslides. Custom Skirting LLC is wonderful to work with and we get to stay in their RV park for the week, while they do the measurements, for free. I will recommend them to all RV'ers. They own the patent for this channel lock system since its their idea, so putting South Dakota on our 'must see' list was a bonus. Thank you so much for the recommendation and all the very useful and needed tips on how to stay warm and comfy. Love your channel!
That's so great to hear! We've been very happy with our RV skirting from Custom Skirting LLC. :)
I really appreciate the pillow insulation for roof vents and heating with the on board propane heater because of the vents designed to help keep the tanks heated. I have been using just electric heaters because the on board heater is so noisy and produces an insane amount of moisture inside the RV. We are too late to make the skirting happen for this next deep freeze but I will have them on the way ASAP. Cheers!
One of those most well done videos I’ve seen on RUclips you get straight to the subject well done
Awesome information!! Haven’t heard that much detail in any of the winter rving videos so far! Definitely going to have to watch some more of your videos!
Thank you! :)
I love this video!!! Thank you and God bless you for cold weather RVing advice
Glad you found it helpful!
Amazing winter .
Thanks so much, Tom and Cait! We’re constantly learning in hopes of making our dream happen. My oldest says, “I want to camp in the winter now!”
You're welcome! Glad you found the video helpful. :)
Another great vid guys very informative keep them coming and stay warm out there
Thanks Ed!
Thank you for the extremely valuable and helpful information. Keep up the great work and stay warm. 🙂
Our family is considering full time rving. We are only planning to travel when we want, as we will mostly be stationary because we pastor a church and have kids in school. Our biggest worry about taking the leap is the water and sewer hook-ups in winter. This definitely helped answer most of our questions ❤
I'm impressed. The information was good, but what I'm impressed with is your fantastic delivery and knowledge. It was like watching an experienced field reporter on TV, only better. Not bad, for a girl, and better than most men.
Thanks! She is pretty darn good, and on TV too! thervers.tv/
Great tips on dealing with condensation - we have been living on a boat for 28+ years and have had a constant battle with this.
It can be a constant battle. I bet a boat is even tougher.
This was very helpful thank you
The most informative of any video I've seen!
Thanks!
Wowwww..... your video was very Informative 🙏🏽& easy to follow. I Appreciate you taking your time to explain & go into detail. Thanks for the video & Happy Camping 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it! :)
Amazing video . Thank u so much
a natural on camera.
I needed this. Moving to snow season this fall. Thanks!
You're welcome!
As always, an incredibly thorough and professional presentation about a very important RVing topic! One question… On that gorgeous aerial shot of your RV completely covered in snow with the steps not yet cleared off and no footprints… Did Tom actually stick his arm out the window to launch the drone?! We can just picture that! 😂
Wow you noticed that! Lol, yup that's how it was done, landed that way too!
@@MortonsontheMove We knew it! 😂 Nice job!!!
@@MortonsontheMove Professional level!
Crack open the roof vent in the bathroom. Hot air rises and it will take the moisture with it. It also keep the air inside the camper smelling fresh.
Good tip!
I have always thought of of winter living in a RV and you did a great answering them . Thanks.
Glad you found the video helpful :)
Very helpful. Very good information
They aren't as well insulated, but they are a lot smaller than most homes, so it takes less to heat them up.
Hrrmm....🤔
Really great point actually.
That was a fabulous and totally informational video! Great job! Wow! I woll deploy some of the info.
Glad it was helpful!
I am really glad to see you back again. I have missed you for a while now! I hope you are not going to try wintering in UP of Michigan. If I am adequately recovered from Covid by time to leave this year, I plan to winter in Florida. Hoping you do the same!!!
Oh yes, I hope you recover quickly! Yea even winter trips are not full season for us. This was shot in Reno, but we are heading south soon!
Great information on cold weather camping
Excellent overview of what it takes to winter camp in sub-freezing weather. Thanks a lot. bill in Florida
Glad you enjoyed it!
this is a great video ! well presented , very clear content!
Great informative video. Thanks so much from a balmy -9c in Southern Ontario Canada. Cheers!!!
Thank you! Stay warm!
Great job!!!
Great video. 👍 Thank you. We needed this as we're new to RV living. :)
Very informative and useful. Many thanks for sharing!
Love the ide of vinyl skirting! Real helpful
We wrote an entire article about RV skirting on our blog, if you want to check it out. In this article, we also share the company we went with for our custom RV skirting. mortonsonthemove.com/rv-skirting/
I'd like to use an RV for skiing someday. These are some great tips for that. Thanks!
Thank you.
Southern Alberta here, yep -40+, it was crazy cold this year. Gonna need wired hoses this year. Lovely presentation, thank you.🇨🇦
Excellent job
damn, that skirting looks so clean!
That's why we love our RV skirting!
Great video. Lots of information 👍
Thanks! 👍
professional presenter, accurate and clear explanations and top notch, network quality production. Wonderful industry representives and inspirations to us all. Texas Jack
Thank you so much! :)
WOW this was a great video and great tips.... good job guys!!!!
Thanks so much!
Great detailed information! Thx!
The best RUclips channel . Congratulations 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷
Thank you!
Nice yooper necklace. Like myself, if your from there you know about winter living and snow!
Cool!!
Love my cubic mini wood stove. Also dries out the air in rv and is a nice accompaniment to propane heat
Nice bro I need to get one
edit: how was the install process?
Thank you nice info
I run a pellet stove last couple winters.
So nice having the constant heat vs propane.
But I live full time in my rv...
You are such a good educator.
Thanks!
We used to use a heating pad under the dog bed next to our bed, set on low to med and our dog would stay in the dog bed and not venture in between us for survival, if you know what I mean. Great video! Happy Holiday's!
Oh yes! Pups lov those heated pads :)
Seasons greetings from New Zealand .Stay safe in the cold winter weather.🇳🇿👍👌
Thanks Steve! Where in New Zealand?
We live in Hamilton NZ If you edit this google map 30 hamblyn cres.with thanks .👍❤️❤️🇳🇿
@@stevefrederick8215 We drove through Hamilton, spent 10 days in Cambridge riding out the beginning of the pandemic. Videos on that soon! Thanks for following along :)
Excellent information I think you hit on absolutely. 👊👍😎
Thanks!
This video was so much more enjoyable than I originally thought. Also my 89 Mallards has almost none of these features. Ah, I just now ,today, in this moment realize it's gonna be a HARD winter for me.
ive been planning on getting a nice rv and living in it year round. (at least untill i can build my actual house, then ill use the rv as a guest house/ "man cave".
this video helped a ton. love it.
Glad you found the video helpful! :)
@@MortonsontheMove especially since i live in Michigan
Very good video and explanation.. Thank you! Full timer here
Glad you enjoyed it!
I have used just a basic flood light under the camper closest to the utilities. It also a lil bonus there is light underneath.
Oh Lord Mortons, please head south! Hope to see you in Quartzsite next month!
Lol, yea winter is fun in short doese for us and we still will be heading south at some point! ;)
Well Done ,Ty
Some great ideas, I live in the south of NM and just bought an older model fifth wheel. Will be moving up to Montana within a years time, will need this info again. Cheers!!
Glad you found the video helpful! Thanks for watching. :)
Great informative video. You should make some videos on the tow vehicle such as maintenance, mileage and your overall experience.
Glad you liked the videos and thank you for the suggestion!
Great video!
Thanks!
I am new to your channel we are the Kincaid‘s family and we have just but our first 2021/5 wheel RV and I have been searching videos for winter living and tips and I absolutely love your post thank you for such wonderful info and thank you for letting us know where to get the skirting we are going to try to order ours now so we can have it before the winter months thank you again sincerely the Kincaid family full-time RV living 😇
So glad you found this video helpful! Be sure to check out our blog where we share lots of other winter camping tips as well: mortonsonthemove.com/category/winter-camping/
Hello from Washington State!!🎄💐😁
Hello!
I never knew a propane tank checker existed thanks for showing!
Thank you excellent
You're welcome!
Thanks for the great info
You're welcome!
Thanks for the tips. My wife and I are currently looking at travel trailers (Never owned one). It will be used primarily in the Northwoods. We plan to keep it on our property up there. It’s completely off grid.
I understand there will be some challenges in regards to cold weather camping however I am running into issues trying to find a brand that will be more suitable for colder weather. Most salesmen we have spoken to do not have much to say in regards to four season trailers. If anyone has reputable brands they could recommend, please let me know. Heading over to a place to look at a Cherokee Grey Wolf tomorrow morning. Thanks!!!
You might find our article about four season travel trailers helpful. You can read it here: www.mortonsonthemove.com/4-season-travel-trailers/
@@MortonsontheMove thank you. I’m reading it shortly. We ended up picking up a Jayco today😬
A wealth of good knowledge here
Thanks!
Can't depend on electric running these days! Heating hose is great if you've got power! We could be having energy problems these days coming
We are actually in the greatest era of electricity innovation in human history. There’s no chance we will have energy problems, government just needs to put the money into it which they will
@@hayden8693 We lived through the terrible Texas freeze 2 winters ago. People died from freezing temperature due to no power. No power for 3 days. Living in our RV. If my husband didn't hook up his truck to our camper battery (running the whole time), we would not have been able to run our furnace with the propane and we had 200-pound propane tanks in addition. We didn't have a generator. So actually, I agree with Joette -- have other options for heat.
@@deannaJesusIsLord yeah what I meant is that our governments need to get their shit together and that we shouldn’t have issues but we do
Good job Cait.
Thank you!
great vid thanks for the info
You're welcome! Thanks for watching.
I’ll have to find a ghetto version of this. Such as a skirt made out of newspaper. As soon as I win the lottery this video will be helpful.
Great info
Thanks!
Great video guys, I thought I was watching a commercial at first.
What a great video! You haven't mentioned the cost of this custom skirting. Would you mind telling us what it cost? We have looked into other skirting that you install yourself and it was very expensive so I am curious what custom skirting cost. thank you for all the tips. Safe travels, God bless
Ok you got my vote yes unvented heaters need a window cracked I am looking into 95% effecincy furnace from the mobile home industry to use in rv app condensation in furnace might be addressed
One thing I've wondered about is snow accumulating on the slide out and roof. I live somewhere it snows 350 - 500 inches every winter and wondered about that weight building up
have to shevel the roof
*I have insulated tarps to run all around my RV and i'm planning on routing the exhaust from my furnace under the under penning so that i don't have to to run another electrical connection. my furnace puts out more heat outside than it does in the RV and while you can't just route the exhaust under the RV you can pipe it through another pipe and use the emitted heat from the furnace to keep the under trailer area warm and dry. I may develop a kit that you can connect to utilize that heat without getting the propane exhaust fumes bleeding back through into your RV. Just makes no sense to let that heat just get blown out into the winter air, might as well utilize it*
As long as it doesent leak and you have a co detector it's a great idea! Rv furnaces are not very efficient at all and that could.be a huge help.
That "camp" ground is more developed then my entire province
Great presentation...here in Australia we don't have any water freezing problems which seems a bit of a pain to deal with...
Thanks for watching!
Great video! One question- what about driving time? Can’t use the heater. Do we need to worry about it? How long before things start freezing up on the road?
Great job on the video! Where are you spending the winter? Sure is a lot different than Florida.Do you have anything in the works as far as a travel video? Your Go North series was my all time favorite. God Bless the both of you and have a Merry Christmas!
We sure do!! New Zealand is coming soon! This was in Reno NV.
did electric space heaters alone warm your unit without using propane ? we are going to be at a campground and will have electric
One thing you didn't mention, best way to keep warm and prevent moisture problem is to install a wood stove.
Quick question ... is the small tabletop dehumidifier you have sufficient for your 5th wheel or do you use two? I've seen mixed comments about them. Our camper is smaller than yours, but we definitely get the condensation on the windows during the winter months so we are hoping this helps dry things up.
Great video! Can't wait until we can one day be full time RVers!
If you have a smaller camper with considerable condensation, you may want two dehumidifiers or one large one. You can always try one small unit to start, and if it's not cutting it, get a second, placing them on opposite sides of the RV. Here are our recommendations: www.mortonsonthemove.com/best-rv-dehumidifiers/
good info. ive ONLY left my black and gray valves in the open position. yep. whole effing RV full of gnats. the smell is alway on my food when im eating. so youre saying to close them?
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Hello, was wondering how you keep your water filter from freezing?