Winter storage and central heating

2016 Coachman Pastiche 575, with Alde heating.

Mine has over wintered for 3 years in a field, wind chill the lot. It isnt plugged in.

Drain the hot and cold thoroughly, I also take the filter out the onboard pump, leave all taps open and that's it. Never had any issue with caravan or battery. First trip out in February mind, bed is as cold as a slab of butchers marble!

solution to bed is an electric blanket put on a couple of hours before use. airs out the bed. cozy.

Our caravan is in a storage compound on a local site, so never plugged in or heated during the winter.  Our present van has a solar panel which keeps the battery topped up.  Never had any problems with either of our vans.

We don’t heat ours during winter as it’s in storage.  Just throughly drain down water system.  Alde heating system has its own antifreeze so just leave that.  We take out some seat cushions and carpet.  We do have a fitted winter cover to keep it clean and dry, and a solar panel to keep the battery charged. This has worked well for us for many years now.  It seems a waste of power to heat an unused caravan.

I also lift our van up onto axle stands during the winter (as it doesn't get used) to take the pressure off one part of the tyres and extend life. Never heated it just lifted cushions etc to allow air circulation.

Great help. Thanks everyone for all the comments.

 

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I do the same DD. I shall pop out later and put Alde on to 5C 

Alan, i thought caravanners drained their water system (hot and cold) on leaving site, even in summer, as they are apprehensive about carrying 10kg of water in the boiler or is this not the case?