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[Gary Jr]

Hello all,

My wife and I are now full timing (4 weeks now) and are just entering our first winter in Maryland. Have noticed the water heater is having a hard time keeping up with cold temps. I do not believe its an open bypass valve as a week ago its was putting out very hot water. I have been heating it with 110 as electric is included with my camp site so figured I would use that over LP, but will try gas this evening and tomorrow morning. However I was wondering if there are any tips and tricks I could try to help keep tank and or lines warm during winter. I keep the RV around 68-70 ambient but all the pex lines run along the sides of the RV and along the floor and they are not insulated so I am loosing a lot of heat there but not sure if anything can easily be done to improve that. They are thankfully all homerun lines to each facet and shower there is a little less loss while the water is traveling. Well any ideas would be awesome and thanks in advance.

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