Winterizing water softener

[Martind4]

I've always worried about our portable water softener freezing when we make the annual trip to warmer climate so we would bring it inside to the bathroom for the trip.

Then I hit on the idea of doing a regeneration (adding salt) and delaying the flush cycle until we were ready to use the softener. My theory is that salt water has to be a lot colder before it freezes than fresh water.

This has worked well for us (On-The-Go softener) for the last 3 seasons and it can stay in the outside compartment for the whole trip.

I know we should start moving south before it gets that cold, but the DW thinks we need to celebrate Christmas with the kids before we leave.

["007"]

Have you ever checked to see if your compartments are heated by your furnace?

[Martind4]

The only basement area that I trust to be heated well enough is the water/electric compartment.

Unfortunately, there isn't enough room to hold the softener, which normally rides vertically in the front compartment on the driver's side.

["007"]

Your tank areas should be heated and did you run water lines to that front compartment, no room near water & holding tanks?

[Martind4]

Our water softener isn't installed permanently, I just use the front compartment for transport.

When set up we have a short hose from the spigot/pressure regulator to the softener and then to a full house filter. It would be nice to have everything inside and under cover but we don't have enough room.

[AFChap]

The compartments (except for a StorMore slide out) get a surprising amount of heat/cooling from above, and our Winnie coach compartments have better insulation than many others, especially on the bottom. We use a wireless thermometer w/multiple senders to monitor compartment temps. We have been in pretty cold temps, and never had a problem with stuff in the compartments.

["007"]

Here is a setup installed under kitchen sink.