I’m sure our Florida neighbors think we are crazy, but we are preparing for winter. With weather in the mid to upper 70s during the day and upper 50s at night, why on earth think about insulating the water lines? While most RVers go to warmer climate during the winter, we are going north. We will be in Missouri for the month of January visiting family and we want to prepare as much as possible. After all, winter in Missouri could be freezing or could be 60 degrees. We don’t want our trip to be dampened by being caught off guard and it ends up being zero and have frozen and busted water lines.
We picked up some self-sealing pipe foam insulation and foil back pipe wrap insulation to go around as many water lines as we can get to. The exposed lines are under our slide out in the storage bay. First, we cut the self-sealing pipe foam insulation to fit around the exposed water lines. Then we cut strips of the foil back pipe wrap insulation for a second layer. We wrapped it in such a way to have about ¼ inch overlap. We secured it with foil tape. Last, we secured the insulated lines with zip ties.
