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RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

How to winterize an RV: The complete guide

RV Lifestyle RV Podcast

Mike Wendland

Personal Journals, Leisure, Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Automotive

4.7624 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

If you live in cooler climates, you need to know how to winterize an RV. In late fall, that is job one. This week, we talk with a Master Certified RV Technician and one of the country’s top RV experts to learn when, how, and exactly what steps to take to protect the plumbing system of your RV from cold weather. Our guest on Episode 418 f the RV Podcast is Todd Henson, Director of Education for the National RV Training Academy. Also known as “the Beard,” Todd is the lead technical instructor for a very popular home study RV tech training course that teaches everyday RVers how to do basic maintenance and repairs.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the RV podcast. This is episode 418. And this week we talk about everything you need to know,

0:09.0

and I mean everything about winterizing your RV. Hello everybody, I'm Mike Wendland, and this is my lifelong traveling companion and my bride, Jennifer.

0:28.8

We're coming to you from our very own Lobb Lally Ridge, located in Middle Tennessee, near the town of Linden, a place called the Woodlands of Buffalo River.

0:42.5

And it's a beautiful day here.

0:45.0

It's funny that we're going to be talking about winterizing because the temperature is in the 70s.

0:49.3

It's shirt sleeve weather.

0:50.9

But I looked at the weather forecast.

0:52.7

That's as we record this because by the time

0:54.8

you're reading it massive cold for us will have come in through the mid-west and the north and

1:00.5

it's going to be cold it's going to be cold down here and this is a special week for us because

1:06.5

we're hosting a gathering of many of our friends and supporters, the gathering at the Buffalo River.

1:12.9

And we're all going to have fun.

1:15.0

I think we have 14 states represented.

1:17.1

Wow.

1:17.6

Every kind of RV from, you know, class B's, class C's, class A's, fifth wheels, towables,

1:25.2

and they're all coming.

1:26.9

And it's going to be a great time we're

1:29.4

recording this obviously before that event gathers it begins it's really from Monday to

1:35.1

Thursday of this week so we're recording this when we have a little bit of a break and I wish

1:41.2

you could hear the wind through the Lobllolly pines here at the village.

1:45.0

I wish we had a camera so that people could see the camera set up for, to record us.

1:50.0

And Bo, we're sitting at a picnic table and he can't figure out how to get close enough to us.

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