I'm really not this stupid!

[Alpena Jeff]

The coach listed below is our first ever. We have owned it for a year. We took it to Florida last winter, haven't camped in very cold weather yet.
We live in north Michigan and its starting to get cold. I haven't winterized yet mainly because we are taking it on the road next week, a 10 hour round trip with a few nights of camping. I will then winterize as we wait to leave for Arizona in January.
Hopefully that is enough background.
As mentioned, it's getting cold here. Night lows high 20s.
I had no idea that we had heated outside storage areas. I've been through the manual, no mention so I assumed we don't have it. I turned the heat on inside running propane and the next morning it felt warmer inside the bays. Grabbed one of my thermostats and set in the wet bay.
Inside temp set at 45. Storage bays were 43.
I was happier than a pig in poop!
Is this offered in some, most coaches and if so why is it not in the book.
My bad, never thought to check on my own until now. Duh!

 

[Larry N.]

Many, but far from all, coaches have bay heat. Ventanas with Oasis certainly do and, so far as I know, all Aqua Hot/Oasis equipped coaches have a heat register in the storage bays and/or water bay. The Bounder I had once did not have the bays heated, and I suspect that most gassers don't, but that's my guess, not real knowledge.

 

[Back2PA]

Yup, mine has an aux blower to increase heat to the basement but even without it the basement runs in the 50s even on really cold nights (assuming I'm in the rig with heat set to high 60s)

 

[Alpena Jeff]

Larry, I don't have Oasis or Aquahot.
Scott, I don't have a blower switch that I'm aware of.
Just went through the manual again. I'm happy but confused.

 

[Back2PA]

Jeff, my switch is in the wet bay

 

[Alpena Jeff]

Oh, does it heat all bays from that switch?
I've been in there enough. I'll go look again.

 

[Alpena Jeff]

Scott. I see something called flow jet that I've never touched. Looks like a water line tho.
No other switches except water pump.

 

[Utclmjmpr]

If you have an Atwood furnace/s  It may be like mine, the furnace slides in horizontally and the output ducking intersects with the in floor ducting that distributes the heat.. At the intersection where the two meet, one is larger than the other and that allows some "spillage" into the water bays and is distributed from there.>>>Dan

 

[NY_Dutch]

Both our current and previous gas Class A's have 2" flex ducting connected to the central heat duct supplying heat to the wet bay(s). Our previous coach had separate fresh and waste bays, each with it's own flex duct. Our current coach only has one duct for the waste bay since the fresh tank is under the bed.