Floor plan question

DutchmenSport wrote:
I'm with you memilanuk.

A couple months ago we fell in love with a front living room 5er that had awesome floor plans. We loved that open feeling between the upper level living room and the lower level kitchen-dining area. We were ready to pull the cord on one model until we seriously considered what happens with slides IN.

That started us on a new search and we found only 1 model that actually had access to everything with all slides in. I don't remember which one it is now, but the stairs to upper level were in the middle and the bathroom to the master bed room in the back had access in the middle, not the sides, creating a hall. And it had no center island, making the kitchen 100 percent accessible.

But, as I recall, that specific model was simply not around where I live for us to even look at it. So, we decided to just keep our travel trailer that IS completely accessible with all 3 slides IN.

Coming from someone who's been down the same road you are traveling, only you can made up your mind if you need full access or are OK with having stuff blocked if/and/when you MUST have the slides in and cannot extract them.

I don't know about others, but we use ours with slides in a lot. Especially during the winter months, more than the summer months. Slides in reduce the space to heat and air condition.

If you do decide to go with a unit that blocks access to different areas, YOU have to ask yourself which is most important and which is not? Kitchen and bathroom when traveling on the road? Or Bedroom and no bath for overnight sleeping? And what happens if you end up in a horrid storm and you feel the need to pull the slides in to reduce your foot print. (which we've done on many occasions).

There are reasons why you will want to use the camper with slides in and extracting will NOT be an option. What is most important.

For us, our decision to keep our current camper a bit longer was our answer.

So, I went out and gave it a good bath!

I doubt that you can measure a difference in the energy required to heat or cool your trailer with slides in vs out. It takes energy to warm or cool mass. The mass that needs cooling or heating stays virtually unchanged slides out vs in. The empty space contains very ltitle mass.