Camping in Sub-Freezing Temperatures

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We are traveling across Texas on our way home and face a couple of nights of sub-freezing temperatures (high 20's and low 30's) with this Artic Cold front that is passing through. I knew how to handle this with our old trailer as the outside water connection was under the kitchen sink. Now we have a 31TS Fifth Wheel and I am not familar with the challenges of dealing with this problem in this fifth wheel. We had not planned on traveling in this type of weather. Any suggestions or ideas.

Lou, We have a 2008 and there are hot / cold water drain valves to the left of the entry stair underneath the trailer. Maybe they eliminated these in the newer models.

KH

My 2006 has a label on the panel in front of the drains "low point drain". It's to the right of the stairs.

They either eliminated the drains or just forgot to put them on mine.
Still, after pumping antifreeze through the system last year, I never had a freeze problem. Before this 5th wheel, I had a wc tt. It had the low water drains behind and to the rear of the entry steps.

Thanks

It has been really cold here for several days now. I went home for 4 days and just got back. I left the gas heater off and had an electric heater inside at 60F and the water shut off at the filter. Drained water heater, etc.

The heat tape I put on the two outside lines is wrapped around both lines and so there are too many gaps that are allowing it to freeze in these temperatures. Around 10F. I decided to route the lines under the floor along the heater duct from the kitchen to the basement and leave out the low point drains. I will blow the lines out when necessary. I can't see crawling under there right now.

For now though I ran the lines inside from the kitchen around the sofa into the bathroom area and down into the basement through the laundry shoot. I converted my site to weekly rate which includes electric and put an electric heater in the basement and have an electric heater in the living area set on 65F. Furnace set on 72F comes on for a few minutes an hour. Basement temp is around 69F now.

Water hose is awesome. Supposed to be good down to -40F without insulating it.

I live in my unit and I keep a small ceramic heater in the basement turned on a very low setting. I use another ceramic heater in the bedroom with the furnace set on 60. I also let the sinks drip. However your hose must be set where it runs downhill all the way from the drain to the sewer connection. If not the water will begin to freeze in the hose and work its way up to the tank. I also have a heat tape and wrapping around my fresh water hose and where it attaches to the RV hookup i run it through one of the plastic and styrofoam covers with a hole cut into the bottom. Us foam insulation (great Stuff) where ever you can and use foam insulation on the drain hoses underneath.