Continuing from yesterday’s post, we’ll finish installing a new pleated shade on one of our travel trailer windows.
Measure 2½ inches in from each shade-end mark and put light marks on the wall where the centers of the mounting brackets will go [Figure 6]. Now that you’ve got everything marked out, it’s time to actually mount your new shade.
The shades are mounted to the wall using brackets that come with them. Narrower shades take only two [Continue reading...RV Window Makeover II (Part 2)]
Over a year ago, we replaced the mini-blinds in our travel trailer with pleated shades and wrote a blog post about the project. Well, we recently bought another travel trailer and replaced its mini-blinds with the same type of pleated shades. Why another post on the same topic? This time we took a few pictures showing some of the installation steps and thought they made it worth another post.
I guess there are many possibilities when it [Continue reading...RV Window Makeover II (Part 1)]
While you can do this yourself so long as you’re NOT using a manual pump from outside the rig, take my advice and recruit a helper. My wife and I usually tackle the winterization process together and it goes very smoothly.
Disconnect from any fresh water supply, if applicable.
Be sure all tanks are drained, including the fresh-water, gray-water, and black-water (body waste) tanks.
The water heater:
— Most RV water heaters now come installed with a bypass valve [Continue reading...9 Steps to Winterize Your RV]
Whether you’re a tent camper or drive a big RV, every so often you just have to grab a piece of rope and tie something down…or up. We all know there are lots of different knots and that using the right one for a particular task is a good thing. But can you always remember what knot to use and how to tie it?
Me either! But I found this neat web site called I Will [Continue reading...How to be Knotty]