Cold weather doesn’t care what you forgot. Winter RV living has a way of exposing every little thing you meant to deal with later. An unprotected water line. A heating system you assumed was ready. Supplies you forgot to grab. A backup plan you never quite finished.
The Winter Prep Checklist helps RV owners, full-time RVers and nomads work through important cold-weather preparation before the temperature drops.
Use it to check your heating, water systems, exterior, winter supplies and emergency backups while you still have time to make changes instead of scrambling when the first serious freeze hits.
Inside, you’ll work through:
• Heating preparation and backup heat• Fresh water, tanks, hoses and plumbing• Cold-weather supplies and winter essentials• Exterior RV and trailer preparation• Emergency heat, water and power backups• Easy-to-forget winter readiness tasks
This checklist is especially helpful for anyone heading into their first winter in an RV or trailer, but it’s also a practical seasonal reset for experienced RVers who want to make sure nothing important gets overlooked.
After living full-time in our RV through Ontario winters, we’ve learned one lesson over and over again: prepare while you still have time to prepare.
When it’s mild outside, forgetting something might be an inconvenience. When temperatures drop well below freezing, that same little problem can affect your heat, water, power or ability to comfortably stay in your RV.
That’s why we created the Winter Prep Checklist. Not to make winter RV living sound scary, but to help you approach it realistically, think ahead and have a plan.
You can’t control the weather.
But you can control how prepared you are when it arrives.