Replace Jack-Knife Sofa

Texas Nomad wrote:

I would scrap the old jack-knife sofa and replace it with a recliner. I was hoping someone on RV.Net might have already attempted something similar and could offer some tips.

Hi,

I have a friend who ditched their jack knife sofa and put in 2 recliners in their slide.

But, it depends on how your camper is built for this to work. What is under your jack knife sofa now?

On our prior camper, that jack knife sofa was in a non slide floor plan and the water heater and the furnace was under the sofa. That meant there was no good way to move the water heater or furnace, you had to deal with the sofa change in some other fashion on a platform etc. as opposed to a slide floor mounted recliner. Thus, it never happened and we sold the camper.

In the case of the friend with the sofa in the slide, there was an outside cargo door entry storage area under the sofa. They gave up the storage space, removed the wood framework inside the slide holding up the sofa frame which was part of the storage area. Then removed the entire sofa and storage woodwork. Now the floor is flush and wide open. Then 2 standard floor mount type of recliners fit in the slide space perfectly. There was a booth dinette also in this slide. The camper had what used to be called super slide. They are a little over 13 ft. long on the outside.

I have pics somewhere if it would help any, but it all starts with, what is under your sofa today and can you live without that floor space etc.?

Hope this helps

John