I went on the Barth site and looked in search for Barth insulation. I found a lot of opinions of bad insulations so if you could please let me know your experience with cold and hot weather and how difficult it is to keep the coach warm or cold and if you need to keep the generator on when boon docking all of the time or when hooked up at an RV park without the generator running. All information on this subject is important as it would be very expensive to try to re-insulate the coach. Also if anyone has good information on how to insulate the coach. Thanks you Patrick

Would not even try to dry camp in cold weather. You would use all your propane quickly. We use an infrared heater when at an RV park. Works great!

Fred & Cindy Cook
1990 32' Regency, Cummins

My Barth has only the bubble insulation, but there is a foam backing on the headliner which helps.

I have a 30A hookup at my sister's in NW MO. I use 2 small space heaters that are good to about 45°. The furnace is 32K BTU, and does well; since replacing the generator with gaso, the entire LPG useful of 25 gals. lasts a long time. I think that the reason my coach is comfy down to -10° is that I have bubble inserts for all windows - made for dark at star parties, but a real boon in cold (or hot) weather. The A/C keeps the coach comfortable at 105°.

I uses an inverter when dry camping for the satellite and TV, running the generator only to recharge the house batteries.

I have spent a few nights in cold weather. My Regal has fiberglass insulation in the walls, roof and floor, with single pane windows.

When nights are about 30 degrees, the coach is comfortable and propane consumption is not too bad, probably last 2 weeks. The night we spent in Kentucky at 15 degrees the furnaces ran much of the time. The single pane windows are drafty.

Running down the road is cold because of the many drafts. The dash heat could not keep up. Rather than burn gasoline and propane down the road, I installed an additional engine heater under the couch which works really well.

I have started experimenting with plexiglass "storm windows." I cut a piece of plexiglass 60 by 27¾ inches and rounded the corners to fit in the recess on the inside of one of the larger coach windows. A strip of foam attaches to the window frame and strips of wood clamp it in.

When we left Michigan (at 3 degrees!) that window was the only one (besides the windshield) that wasn't completely frosted over. The plexiglass seems to block the drafts and noise as well. I am planning to cut 3 more pieces for the other large windows. I will show photos when I get back to that project.

Bottom line: we are comfortable down to mid 20's when needed. We have spent 4 days dry camping (30's) with furnaces running and did not need to run the generator to recharge the coach batteries.