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TNGW1500SE
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Jul 31, 2015

Couch installed

Dinette and RV jackknife sofa are history and new 116" long couch with recliners on each end is installed. Also bought a 36" table and mounted it between front seats. The table feels better than the little dinette did and the couch is killer! Table stores on side of couch for travel. Old dinette made nice end table and a place to slide the dogs box under. I still have to come up with a way to strap the new table top down for travel.

  • We have a 2016 Puma Unleashed 351THSS and want to do the same thing so bad. The only thing holding me back is, how do you get a full size couch through a 24" door opening?

    Is your couch a normal 'home' couch or a RV specific couch?
  • Most couches these days have removable backs. We replaced ours with a nice leather wall hugger type recliner couch from Costco and the back just slid into a couple of metal brackets and locked in there. Was very easy to get it in the door. I think our door opening might be 30" though but not sure.
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  • Looks to me like we might have purchased the same couch, only mine is 3 seats, and the 2 ends seats recline. This couch is sooooo comfortable, we are strongly thinking about getting one identical for our house. The one in the house is showing signs of some good age ... with 4 grandkids stomping all over it!

    Here's ours:



    I put this in about 2 months ago.

    To answer another poster's question, "NO. This is not an RV couch." It is a full size couch, purchased from Value City Furniture.

    The thing that made it possible to get this in the door was because the backs come off, then the couch had to set on end on the ground outside the door. Then the top was pushed in the door and someone inside lifted (outside too from the bottom), until the bottom cleared the bottom of the door, then the bottom was shoved in. Once in, then the couch was turned at a 90 degree and let down on all 4's then.

    It wasn't hard, but even doing it this way, it was a LOT of muscle to do it. These couches are not light!

    Here's what the camper looked like with the original furniture. I am so glad our camper came with free standing furniture:



    Here's what it looked like with all the furniture gone, before putting the couch in:



    One thing I did do however, after the couch was inside the camper, I drilled out 6 holes on the bottom of the frame and put in castor rollers so the couch would roll easy to move it. But also found out when traveling, the couch rolled around. So then I attached 2 eye bolts and 2 more eyelets on the floor to hook a strap to and snug it down, so when traveling the couch will not move.

    We move the couch facing the rear window (and television). Since it's on rollers, it moves very easy, no problem positioning it anywhere. Because we have the rear double slide, we have all kinds of options where and when to place it different.



    If this couch would have been any longer, we would have never got it in the door. It could only be as long as the ceiling was high in order to do it because of our camper configuration.

    So? What happens if we ever decide to sell the camper! No problem! I'll remove the wheels and eye bolts, because they make the width too wide and it will never get out the door. I simply put back the original furniture, which we have in our house.

    And oh, by the way. We use camping folding tables for end tables, inside and outside the camper. We've had these for years. We never used the table in this camper anyway to actually eat off of. It was always just a junk collector, and the chairs were never used. So they are safely tucked away in the house (gathering dust).

    Photo of the camp table. We have 2 of these. Wonderful little tables:

  • GilWilliams wrote:
    We have a 2016 Puma Unleashed 351THSS and want to do the same thing so bad. The only thing holding me back is, how do you get a full size couch through a 24" door opening?

    Is your couch a normal 'home' couch or a RV specific couch?


    It's normal. It was the one from our house and the wife wanted new for the house so rather than put it on craigslist for next to nothing I snatched it for the RV. When I took a close look at it, I found that each section was just bolted together to a piece of angle iron. I just unbolted it and took it through the door a piece at a time. The "hard" part was getting it bolted to the floor. I had to locate the metal structure in the slide and bolt to that. I was even able to add the old seatbelts by cutting the fabric on the back of the couch.

    Note that this was two couches. I took the center out of each one and used a left and right end. I made a loveseat out of what was left and that's going on craigslist.
  • DutchmenSport wrote:
    Looks to me like we might have purchased the same couch, only mine is 3


    We had two couches so I used the middle out of both of them and had a loveseat left over.

    Mines in a class A so I had to bolt it down for travel.

    Want to buy a loveseat? LOL!

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