Been there and done that.
I have modified my trailer so I can run most of my water and flush but early on I bought a porta potty for inside the tub for those inside emergency/middle of the night got to go's. Other than that just mostly use the facilities they have since they are warm and toasty anyways.
Heat as mentioned can be an issue as most lines in your RV are only 15 amp so cranking up 1 heater you will not be able to run anything else on the same circuit.
To fix that I did a mod where I ran a new line out my electrical box and put a wall type plug to the AC circuit. This is 20 amp and plug the main heater there and it will run high without blowing. I figured we would never have heat or AC on at once so why not use the same circuit winter and summer. One of the better ideas that I have done.
I also pipe wrapped all my lines from tank to my kitchen sink, water tank and toilet both hot and cold water. Then put a couple shut offs in between to route the water only to those 2 areas for winter. I have heating pads on all my tanks too. You also need to wrap your drain pipe and the big thing is where your pull is for the drain as it is prone to freezing solid in the winter too.
With all this we can pretty much be toasty warm, use inside bathroom and wash dishes and us inside without freezing or at least so far as we have gone out up to about minus 15 or 20. I wouldn't do more cold than that and would just use the outside services especially those 2 places as they are pretty well equipped.
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