Electric fridge in Cottage

[Gibbsey]

Has any had problems winterizing the 19' frig with ice maker in the Cedar Creek Cottage?

[spock123]

I have winterize my Cedar Creek last winter without any problems


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[Gibbsey]

So what method did you use to winterize the frig?

[Gcaughron]

I used compressed air. You can purchase the adapter to screw onto the fresh water inlet at most RV parts stores. I set the air compressor regulator on 40 lbs and let the ice maker cycle 3 or 4 times. The water valve opens and it continues to make ice but the last time there was a light mist that barely blew out of the ice maker water inlet into the tray. It worked for me and no yucky pink antifreeze. Blow all lines and pour antifreeze down the traps.

[spock123]

I turn the rv pump on and let it pump the pink stuff to the refrigerator. The refrigerators ice maker is on and it will make ice until the refrigerator ice maker is pumping out pink ice and then I shut the valve off for the water line to the refrigerator. We use our camper all year, just not the ice maker


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[wls]

Originally Posted by Gcaughron

I used compressed air. You can purchase the adapter to screw onto the fresh water inlet at most RV parts stores. I set the air compressor regulator on 40 lbs and let the ice maker cycle 3 or 4 times. The water valve opens and it continues to make ice but the last time there was a light mist that barely blew out of the ice maker water inlet into the tray. It worked for me and no yucky pink antifreeze. Blow all lines and pour antifreeze down the traps.

Do you manually cycle the ice maker, or let it do it on its own

[edt]

I cut off water going to ice maker disconnect 1/4 inch line at cut off let ice maker try to make ice day before winterizing unit will drain back on its own has worked for last 2 years

[Mdaniels4]

I finally found my ice maker shut off on the 2017 crs. It is by the galley grey dump. Weird place, but it was driving me nuts not seeing it. Shut that baby off. The reason I shut it off was because our permanent site uses well water. There is significant farm runoff and I don't trust the water to consume it. I have a portable ice maker, that I use home tap water in it. Plus a few ice trays left over from other campers. Works for us.

[Mdaniels4]

Also, since I shut it of, there will be no more water in that line. So I'll cycle the icemaker, get all the antifreeze and what water is in there out, and just forget about it. It's off, minimal water would be residual, so should be good.

Btw. Since all of us cottage owners are now subscribed to this thread, all questions pertaining to the cottage should just be posted here in a running dedicated thread. Does that make sense?

One thing I wish would have been on the trailer, was a propane and electric fridge. If the power goes, I'd really hate to lose my freezer stuff. Too bad that was available.

[CHICKDOE]

I pumped antifreeze through the refrigerator last year and made it through the winter ok. since them I have learned a lot. when I was pumping the antifreeze I was draining it out via the water dispenser in the door. I was waiting to see some pink come out but I never did. I ran a lot of antifreeze through the refrigerator. my assumption is that the water filter in the refrigerator was filtering out the pink. this means I needed to install in new filter in the spring. since then I learned that they make a dummy filter for the refrigerator that does not do any filtering. I was intending to use it this year. I also learned that there is a shut off valve for the refrigerator line. only took several hours of snooping to find it. so now I am planning on blowing air through the refrigerator and out via the water dispenser. then shut the shut off valve. but I still have a concern about the ice maker. we keep the trailer in a storage lot without any power. so I cannot leave the refrigerator on for a day or so to have it cycle the ice maker to drain it. I am concerned about water in the ice maker line. somebody mentioned manually cycling the ice maker to drain it. how do you do that. it I could get it to cycle a few times while blowing the air that would clear the line. but how to you get it to cycle on demand? or it was mentioned that the ice line will drain back into the supply line once you blow it out. if this is true you could blow out the line, wait a few minutes to have the ice line drain into the supply line, then blow it out again. will this work?