Installing windows in living room slide-out

dougrainer wrote:

Deano56 wrote:
I doubt the factory makes the end panels any different for slides with or without windows for every particular model, but as said already the manufacturer would be able to help

So, you have inside knowledge of HOW RV's are built?? I DO. Every Model and sub model will have different specs for framing. IF the wall has a window or any other outside access door or appliance, they will have radius corners and studs that the window/door/appliance will mount too. They do NOT just cut a hole in the wall and install doors or windows. My point in explaining is NOT to stop someone from doing it, but to explain the risks that they may incur when doing something out of the ordinary on the RV. If the wall has no studs, you cut the hole and then insert wood studs on the 4 sides for support. If it is a radius window(almost all are), you really need the plastic radius corners to install also. Doug

I certainly understand about needing studs or support around the windows for them to be mounted too just as a residential home would need them, but in a home I would cut out the wall and add a header, studs and supports where needed. My thought was that the studs are always in the walls of a motorhome on certain centers whether they are on 12, 16, 18,or 24" centers, they are in every motorhome. If there is a window going in a wall they don't move the studs to 36" centers to accommodate a 36" window.