Need help with outdoor kitchen

MaryAnnK

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I have a 2018 Windsport 31S with an outdoor kitchen. We are in snowbirding in Alabama taking part in the historic snowfall and deep freeze. Yay! Anyway I am using freshwater tank and keep hearing pump every few minutes for just a second so I think there must be water dripping somewhere. Sure enough outdoor kitchen faucet is slightly dripping. And filling up sink and pump to drain sink won’t turn on either. But I digress. I take out drawer to see if I can just shut off the water for now and this is what I see. Are those two rings the shutoff valves? Because I don’t see valves anywhere else.
 

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They are low point drains for the sink supply hoses.
yes thank you Kev. We just figured that out! Cannot find where to shut off the water lines to the outdoor kitchen. Took off the panels below the closet which is behind the kitchen but no valves. Just water heater.
 
If it's like my 29M, there is no shut off for the outdoor kitchen. You could disconnect the sink and plug the lines or replace the faucet.
 
I have a 2018 Windsport 31S with an outdoor kitchen. We are in snowbirding in Alabama taking part in the historic snowfall and deep freeze. Yay! Anyway I am using freshwater tank and keep hearing pump every few minutes for just a second so I think there must be water dripping somewhere. Sure enough outdoor kitchen faucet is slightly dripping. And filling up sink and pump to drain sink won’t turn on either. But I digress. I take out drawer to see if I can just shut off the water for now and this is what I see. Are those two rings the shutoff valves? Because I don’t see valves anywhere else.
Download the freshwater diagram and it will show you where the valves are if equipped. My Challenger had them behind the outdoor fridge accessible through a panel in a bedroom closet.
 
There are zero shutoff valves. If you need to shut off water flow, turn the pump off and only turn it on for the duration of the need (flushing, washing, etc). Once things thaw out in a couple of days, you can check for leaks and possible damage. If you hadn't put pink antifreeze down the outdoor kitchen sink drain and ran the pump, that drain circuit is likely frozen solid.

We bugged out of Mobile on Monday after seeing the forecast and stayed ahead of the storm. Now down in St Pete.
 
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In the Hurricane/Windsport 31S there is a chase (passage) for the heat, electrical and plumbing that goes from the left side of the entry door to the outside kichen. Major supply points for this chase are: top of the battery compartment into the door's hollow wall, under the shower (cross coach water lines are accessed in the heated basement compartment under the shower and behind the water heater) and under the ouside sink.. Common access to the chase is from: the false floor under the kitchen sink, the air vent under the fridge and the water heater access under the dressing table by the closet. Hollow walls are: the left side of the entry door, the wall between the shower and the dressing table and the outer bathroom wall in the hall. The cabinets above the couch have a false floor as do the ones in the kitchen. Because of the aluminum bracing in the wall only the HDMI cables run through the outside walls. There a couple exceptions where electrical wires do run vertically in the outside walls. All this is info is shown on the engineering drawings available from Thor MC CS.
In the outside kitchen, the water pipes, macerator and 1.5" waste water line are all in an compaerment heated by the propane furnace, unless you have a disconnected or blocked heater hose (those 2" silver hoses in the fresh warer compartment, the wet bay, basement compartment under the shower and in the outside kitchen (under the sink.)

If it is below freezing outside, it is best to use ONLY the propane furnace to heat the coach. Using supplemental heat in the coach can cause the tanks and water lines to freeze.
 
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There are zero shutoff valves. If you need to shut off water flow, turn the pump off and only turn it on for the duration of the need (flushing, washing, etc). Once things thaw out in a couple of days, you can check for leaks and possible damage. If you hadn't put pink antifreeze down the outdoor kitchen sink drain and ran the pump, that drain circuit is likely frozen solid.

We bugged out of Mobile on Monday after seeing the forecast and stayed ahead of the storm. Now down in St Pete.
Thanks for the info! Sadly, we came from Florida to Gulf Shores as part of “seeing the country” while snowbirding. Who knew there would be an historic winter storm!
 
In the Hurricane/Windsport 31S there is a chase (passage) for the heat, electrical and plumbing that goes from the left side of the entry door to the outside kichen. Major supply points for this chase are: top of the battery compartment into the door's hollow wall, under the shower (cross coach water lines are accessed in the heated basement compartment under the shower and behind the water heater) and under the ouside sink.. Common access to the chase is from: the false floor under the kitchen sink, the air vent under the fridge and the water heater access under the dressing table by the closet. Hollow walls are: the left side of the entry door, the wall between the shower and the dressing table and the outer bathroom wall in the hall. The cabinets above the couch have a false floor as do the ones in the kitchen. Because of the aluminum bracing in the wall only the HDMI cables run through the outside walls. There a couple exceptions where electrical wires do run vertically in the outside walls. All this is info is shown on the engineering drawings available from Thor MC CS.
In the outside kitchen, the water pipes, macerator and 1.5" waste water line are all in an compaerment heated by the propane furnace, unless you have a disconnected or blocked heater hose (those 2" silver hoses in the fresh warer compartment, the wet bay, basement compartment under the shower and in the outside kitchen (under the sink.)

If it is below freezing outside, it is best to use ONLY the propane furnace to heat the coach. Using supplemental heat in the coach can cause the tanks and water lines to freeze.
Wow! Thank you so much for all this very helpful information. I did follow the lines and open all the access points along that passageway (chase). I have been using the furnace to keep all the lines heated in the underbelly. It’s just a little drip in the sink so I think changing out the faucet will work. I will figure out why the pump won’t drain the outdoor kitchen sink once it’s warmer out. The new challenge is how to see behind the outdoor sink to change the faucet!
 

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