The HARDEST THING about winter in our camper - Bigfoot 25RQ 

Awwwww thank you :)

Thanks for sharing your experience. We have a mat under the bed too (looks very similar to the Hypervent).

Hi Eva. Thanks for watching! We also got a vent pad for under our mattress, and have not noted any moisture under it. When it gets really cold, I don't believe you can really prevent some condensation. Our humidity indoors was down around 40%, which is pretty low and a dehumidifier won't really help a lot to lower it further. We just have to do our best to manage it.

Thanks for the tip!

We have been living in our Bigfoot for one more year since this video came out (including six months away from the property) and we are still very happy with it.

@@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods That's great to hear!

We did too! Although I'm ready to see it go away now for spring.

Me too, that was a brilliant idea!

Cool! Thanks for sharing your experience.

Thank you Michel! Take care :)

Thanks for watching and commenting!

Hi Dan, if you have some specific questions about the trailer details, please feel free to e-mail (under "business inquiries" on the "About" page when you visit our channel).

Thanks for the ideas. But how does the fan not result in much heat loss? Is it a LOT slower than the slowest setting on the Fantastic Fan?

We took a closer look at the fans. They are both Maxx fans.

(and they came that way from the original build, although we were expecting Fantastic fans).

​@@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods Are they 10 speed or three speed? Huge difference! The lowest speed on our three speed Fantastic fan is equal to probably speed 5 on the MaxxFan in our Escape. Too fast and would suck the hot air out of our Escape (or now Bigfoot 25RQ). We ran our MaxxFan 24/7 when camping, even at 5 F. If you build up moisture with your breath it either can go out the vent or condense on your windows or outside walls. We NEVER had condensation in our Escape as long as we cracked a window 1/4" or less and ran the MaxxFan on low. We currently have had two days in the last month with temps over freezing and a numer of nights into the teens with our 25RQ, but I just crack the Fantastic Fan in the bedroom at night to reduce the moisture on the windows. Problem is, without a fan running a couple of nights moisture condensed on the lid and that moisture dripped on our bed. Again, at some point in the next year I'll be ripping out that three speed Fantastic Fan and install a 10 speed MaxxFan. Burn a few more btu's of LP or put up with condensation. Your choice.

Hi Cindy. Our A/C is actually a heat pump, so no heat strip is necessary, but it will only produce heat down to about the freezing point outside. We ordered our Bigfoot with no A/C, one because we weren't positive we would need it any time soon, but secondly because we wanted to research our own to try to find a reasonably quiet one. We went with a RecPro heat pump. No rewiring was required; just used Bigfoot's prewire. We are very happy with it! And, we don't really use it much for heat. A small electric space heater is actually more efficient, so we use that when we have extra power instead.

We were a bit worried about that too, but when we put the filter on, we monitored the current draw on the furnace motor and saw no appreciable difference, so I think it is probably fine. It has been working fine (seemingly) for a few weeks now.

Hi Ron, we could have survived just fine without skirting the trailer. We were just trying to do everything we could to save on propane. I would have skirted any trailer for that reason. I am not real familiar with the Lance, but I do know they are supposed to be 4-season. In our eyes, the Bigfoot advantage comes in other forms, mainly that it is a molded fiberglass trailer. This makes it inherently more resistant to leaks and it will retain its value better than stick-built trailers.

thanks for the response. I just saw a brand new Bigfoot 25B25RQ in person and WOW was I impressed.@@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods

Hi Bob, we have a dehumidifier in storage, but would be hard pressed to bring it into such a small space and try to run it off the solar system on a regular basis. Maybe a last resort... Do you happen to know one more appropriate for an RV?

Plus, we do plan to get larger propane tanks on the property. If the delivery trucks can make it up our driveway, we may even get a 400 pound tank for the yurt and one up at the shed for RV use.

Sorry 120 gallon not 400 pound.

@@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods not really ours is large in size,

Hi Jeff, I think this trailer has excellent clearance. I have heard of people doing a lift on it, but it is already better than most travel trailers. We've never had it drag, but we also haven't traveled just a whole lot yet. Personally, I don't think I would want to go anywhere dragging would be an issue.

@@OvertheRiverandThroughtheWoods Charles, Thank you for the information!, I'm about a year away from ordering a 25' rear twin, with previous travel trailers I have been on some forest service roads that I've scraped the bottom on.

It is! When our on-board trailer batteries get down to 75%, it automatically turns on our shore power which is plugged into our main solar system.

Ha ha! This past winter we actually took off and spent most of it in Arizona. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C9SgDh-UfeY.html

Olivers have a reputation for being equally well built. But for us it came down to the floor plan. We never even considered an Oliver after looking at the floor plans because we wanted the dinette in the front (out of the way of foot traffic) and we really like the walk around bed in the 25 foot Bigfoot (which is slightly longer, but also wider than the Oliver). Those things were especially important to us because we would be in it for an extended period as a home base.

We don't, sorry!

What’s that? I can’t find anything on the Bigfoot website about it. Thanks

A dehumidifier is quite large and noisy for such a small space, but might be a last resort if the problems were tenacious.

Off-grid in a small space, that would be a last resort. But the humidity in the RV is actually not that high. The condensation is pretty localized.

Nuguns: Spoken by someone who has no idea what it’s like to get down to -20°F. At those temperatures, you would be lucky to not get condensation around 20% humidity and a dehumidifier will never get it that low.

Hi, we will be building a rocket mass heater (which burns wood efficiently) for the yurt. Overwintering in the RV was definitely a temporary arrangement.