Winterizing Residential Refrigerator In Rv

When you are ready to de winterize the fridge remove the insulation turn the gas back on light the pilot light if you have one replug the ice maker and turn the fridge back on.

Winterizing residential refrigerator in rv. Some rv owners run rv antifreeze through the system until they get a pink coloring in the ice cube trays. The stock fridge is a residential model not an rv model not sure whether that matters or not. Keep in mind the antifreeze will not freeze in the tray but you will get a slushy substance. Thanks for visiting the rv repair club site and the opportunity to assist with winterizing your residential style refrigerator.

Refrigerators winterizing storage in unheated location. I have an open range 398 rls residential. I don t remember seeing anything in the owner s manual on how to winterize this type fridge. Turn the icemaker off.

Dw loves this fridge for that reason. Ice and water through the door. The power consumption of a gas absorption style refrigerator versus a residential rv refrigerator are so similar that most rvers say they don t notice the difference. Be sure the refrigerator is turned off and and the gas valve is turned off to the refridgerator also in the same compartment.

Turn off the water supply to the refrigerator. Remove food and turn off the circuit breaker or fuse or unplug the cord from wall receptacle. But because residential rv refrigerators can only be powered by conventional electricity many people are under the impression that boondocking is not an option when you install one of these units. If we have to winterize i just plan on removing the filter on our refrigerator the in house water tank filter by pass the hotwater tank and use rv antifreeze.

I used to just blow out all the lines but with this mh and all the lines including the res refrig i figured it was safer to just follow factory recommendations. If your unit will be located in an unheated location dispenser and non dispenser models.