Heated Floors

[86bigred]

i have read some where that all you need is a small rv hot water tank,run your lines under the floor and hook up a pump on a thermostat. or run your water lines to a small tractor heater and run the fan and pump off the thermostat.hydronic heating.

here is a link http://rixens.com/system.htm

[doug hodder]

Okay
After seeing a Teardrop in the snow at Yellowstone in the summer.

Just me...but I think you are over thinking it, just how often are you planning on camping in those conditions....many of us have camped well into the 20's with no "onboard" heat and have been fine and it wasn't a summer thing...daily temps were only in the 40's. It was spring in the high desert of Nevada. It's camping!

Many of us just put a lantern in the tear prior to going to bed...have some decent bedding to account for the temps. The interior of mine was in the upper 40's in the morning and it snowed during the night. I was comfortable and I didn't have my dog with me to help heat it up. Kinda depends on your camping mate if you have one.

If you want heat and not deal with any of the elements....no matter what you do, it's gonna cost ya, dollars and time or get a larger RV. Whether it be a furnace, pet cool, blanket that may suck down a battery or whatever.... and if you are camping in a tear...and it's warm...are you gonna sit inside all day long?...get out and build a fire..it's camping! Doug

[smatthew]

I have often considered purchasing a Webasto ThermoTop - it's a diesel heater intended for pre-heating engines, so it produces hot coolant. Plumb that below the floor in pex for some nice radiant heat ;-} Plus add a heat exchanger and you've got hot water in the sink!

[Vedette]

Thanks Guys
From your comments, I am now concidering a very small (cheap) 12v heater or an electric blanket for on top of us.
Thanks for your imput.
Good Roads
Brian

[Senior Ninja]

I'm with Doug on this one. "It's camping." If you want all the comforts of home... I insulated, especially the floor. We've never been cold even a eight thousand feet at Big Trees State Park in CA. Don't want to let the heat out to go pee? I thought that's why they made sports drink bottles. Just a squirt of two of liquid hand soap and a little mouth wash to kill the odor. Empty in the morning in the rest room or throw it out the window at that big RV tailgating you (Just Kiddin") I'd just add two things. First invest in a hot water bottle. Second, wear a knit hat to bed. Lots of heat escapes through your head.
Steve

[DMcCam]

Hi Brian, You might want to do a couple of searches for heating threads. It's been covered pretty well. We ended up adding a 12 volt socket at the foot of the bed for a mattress heating pad like the truckers use. NevadaTear turned us on to it. If you use it to warm up the bed 20 minutes or so before you climb in, you can turn it off and sleep well in freezing weather.

Cheers,

Dave

[Vedette]

Thanks Dave
We will have a 12v socket in the sleeping area, so this might be just what we need.
I am trying to keep things simple, but I don't want to miss something that iis easy to install during the build.
All ideas and comments are taken into consideration!
Thanks again.
Good Roads
Brian & Sandi

[Martiangod]

I renoed a house in winter a few years ago, slept in the basement without heat...Winter and little electric, froze my butt off.
Got a brainstorm one day had some 2" pink styrofoam, put it under my air mattress, just about cooked that night.
Even if your floor is insulated I would get some Pink or Blue styrofoam and put under bed.

Just sit on a piece of styrofoam and you will know what i'm talking about

We late camp with our previouse trailer into the first few snows, even with furnace running feet were cold at table, put a piece of styro under our feet and it was wonderfull.
I even have styro under my feet at my computer desk in winter, we keep heat down..

[DMcCam]

Martian has the right idea for sure. In essence we're doing the same thing with our 5" foam mattress (4" dense foam with 1" additional memory foam on top). All that insulation with a mattress warmer is what our good friends have too. Here's a link to their build thread.

http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=41295

I like the idea of less is more.

Cheers,

David