Winterizing the mobile home

After weeks of use, it is time to prepare the winterizing of your mobile homes to preserve them during this period of ’ unoccupancy where the weather is more capricious.

Objectives: avoid any unpleasant surprises and ensure a more peaceful reopening of the campsite ; a real time saving for your technical teams in spring.

The main winterizing operations to perform to manage the maintenance of your parking at the arrival of winter sum up to : ventilate, secure and clean.

Clean your rental park rigorously to preserve it

Clean meticulously each room of your mobile homes, with particular attention to the bathroom and kitchen, to avoid humidity and any mold or rust risks. Do not hesitate to put humidity absorbers in these rooms.
Ventilate : leave the ventilation grilles free, in order to allow an optimal ventilation of the mobile homes. Leave the doors open : furniture, refrigerator & internal doors.
Check every cupboard. every storage, notably at the level of the kitchen, in case there were any food items remaining and thus avoid insect infiltration.
In the bedrooms, remove by a few cm the mattresses from the walls to avoid leaving them in contact. You can complement this by equipping them with plasticized fitted sheets.
In the living room, at the level of the sofa, place the settees on their edge , even if most of the new materials used type polyvinyl are very easy to clean, this will also allow better ventilation of the storage trunks or the extra bedding.
Remove all the curtains and wash them.
Check that the windows of your mobile homes are well closed.
Remove leaves and debris from the drains in order to avoid any risk of infiltration during this autumn and rainy period.
Bring outside furniture inside after washing and drying. Think of putting a protection on the floor to avoid marking the linoleum if the furniture is heavy or sharp.
Lubricate the leveling jacks and the hitching device of your mobile homes.

Check the power supply circuits of your mobile homes to secure them

Turn off all supply circuits of the mobile homes.

Gas circuit :

Close the taps of gas.
Open drain points under the mobile home.
Block the gas inlet fittings and flush the gas circuit after having closed and sheltered the bottle or bottles.
Loosen the drain screw of the water heater and let all the water flow contained in the device.
The maintenance of the gas water heater must necessarily be carried out by a qualified professional at least once a year, in accordance with the standards in force in each country.

Water circuit :

Close the water supply and unplug the water inlet.
Drain the water circuit by opening the drain tap located under your mobile home, especially if your shower is equipped with a thermostatic mixer...
Open all water taps located inside your mobile home and place the shower head on the floor to evacuate the water inside the shower pipe.
Drain the toilet cistern, WC bowl and all siphons (sink, shower, sink).
Add antifreeze in the bottom of the WC bowl. For the fresh water circuit, it is recommended to rinse the pipes with vinegar water. Before resuming service of the appliances, perform an empty run.
Drain the water heater according to the manufacturer's instructions. Vent your circuit with air.

Electrical circuit :

Turn off electricity at the circuit breaker unless the mobile home is equipped with the GTC (Centralized Technical Management) option
If your mobile home is equipped with a frost heater , make sure not to cut the differential switch and the circuit breaker of the electric heaters and turn your frost heater on, position the electric heater thermostats on frost protection. The best solution remains a complete purge of the water circuit.
Unplug electrical appliances (domestic and others).

Your mobile homes are ready to winterize, secured.

It will be all the simpler for your technical teams to proceed with the restart of your mobile home rental park if all these precautions have been taken. The guarantee of welcoming serenely many clients as soon as spring in your camping!