Installing windows in living room slide-out

dougrainer wrote:

Berner2 wrote:
I have a 2004 Cross Country and I'm thinking about the same thing. I don't see it as a big problem. Some of the other models from Coachmen have the same slide and also have windows in the slide ends. I believe the Encore from that era and maybe the Mirada gasser(?). I know there are a couple of models. I think that the the model I have, 354mbs, doesn't have them because it is/was the entry level DP and the absence of windows was a cost saver.

I haven't had the time to really research the project. My thought is to find a Coachmen with the windows on a lot or in a campground and take measurements of window size and placement in the slide wall and proceed from there.

I think the cross ventilation would make a big difference. To me it comes down to nothin ventured nothing gained.

Your thought process is wrong. Just because other models have those windows does not mean YOURS does. For instance, a LOT of Towables do NOT have roof ladders. 90% of the time, if NOT installed by the OEM, they leave out the interior wall decking that the ladder feet mount too. If they did NOT install a window, then the odds are there are no structural supports. IF you do cut a hole and cut one of the few studs, then you have a weak wall. Doug

Thanks, Doug. Glad you talked some sense into me! Heck I was just gonna take a sawzall and cut a big a** hole in the end of my slide and stick a window in it.

I believe I said I would take some measurements and proceed from there. I realize that it is very possible that my slide isn't framed for windows, but, it is just as possible that it is. Even based on your own statement regarding 90% of the time, I have a 10% chance of it working out. So apparently my thought process isn't completely wrong! I was simply expressing my views on a subject brought up by the OP. If you never try anything, you never know for sure. Besides, I can't do anything to that MH that can't be fixed.
Terry