keeping cabinet doors closed when traveling
How do you do it? Most of mine flip open, even the sliding windows slide open. Do you only put things in there when parked?
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In the beginning, we had the upper kitchen cabinets and pantry door open during transit. Also had the stove grate jump off, items tossed out of the sink and even the plastic open/close rod on the mini blinds jump off the hook. We have a rear kitchen and these can suffer bounce issues more than other layouts. Stopped for groceries once on the way to the CG only to find the contents of the pantry all over the floor including ground coffee everywhere. Grrr.
The first thing we did is install shelf liner in the upper cabinets and that fixed that. We've still been using a baby lock through the handles just in case tho. We recently bought a heavy duty RV cabinet latch made by RV Designer for the pantry door, #H316 (10 lb holding capacity). If that works, will use them on the upper cabinets too. See pic below. You can always add a 2nd or 3rd catch if needed which might be good anyway on a tall door.
The roller catches that are often used on cabinets doors are pretty wimpy. Looked at magnetic ones but they seemed worse.
We've also installed shock absorbers which has greatly reduced the bounce in the trailer, esp. the tail end.
Some may have bounce issues and doors coming open during travel, but most won't. Depends on a number of factors and where the kitchen is located (over axles or at rear). If you have a trailer, I highly recommend shock absorbers.
The first thing we did is install shelf liner in the upper cabinets and that fixed that. We've still been using a baby lock through the handles just in case tho. We recently bought a heavy duty RV cabinet latch made by RV Designer for the pantry door, #H316 (10 lb holding capacity). If that works, will use them on the upper cabinets too. See pic below. You can always add a 2nd or 3rd catch if needed which might be good anyway on a tall door.
The roller catches that are often used on cabinets doors are pretty wimpy. Looked at magnetic ones but they seemed worse.
We've also installed shock absorbers which has greatly reduced the bounce in the trailer, esp. the tail end.
Some may have bounce issues and doors coming open during travel, but most won't. Depends on a number of factors and where the kitchen is located (over axles or at rear). If you have a trailer, I highly recommend shock absorbers.
