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frankdamp
Feb 21, 2013Explorer
We live in a community that is heavily into boating, and a little less heavily into RVs. We're very fortunate that parking either in your driveway is permissible.
We had a third pad added to our two-car driveway, extending away from the street alongside the first 20 feet or so of the garage. At the time we had a 26' Class C.
When we got our current rig, which is 102" wide compared to the 96" width of the Class C, we had to prune a bit of the garage roof overhang off to get enough clearance. We can put the rig far enough in that only about 6 feet is on the street side of the garage corner.
Unfortunately, the gutter still gets in the way of the house door, so another mod is in the works. I have to use the driver's door, with a step-ladder from the neighbor's front yard, to get into the rig. I'm hoping that raising the gutter to tuck under the roof overhang will give enough clearance. When we cut the roof back, we put it at the same level as before, because there's a 45-degree mitered corner in the gutter between the west and south sides of the garage.
In the 5 houses either side of ours, and a similar number on the other side of the street, 8 of us have RVs or boats and two more are multi-vehicle families with 4 or more vehicles. Several of the others, and some further down the street, are snowbirds with winter homes in Arizona, Hawaii, southern RGV or Mexico, so it's a fairly laid-back neighborhood.
We had a third pad added to our two-car driveway, extending away from the street alongside the first 20 feet or so of the garage. At the time we had a 26' Class C.
When we got our current rig, which is 102" wide compared to the 96" width of the Class C, we had to prune a bit of the garage roof overhang off to get enough clearance. We can put the rig far enough in that only about 6 feet is on the street side of the garage corner.
Unfortunately, the gutter still gets in the way of the house door, so another mod is in the works. I have to use the driver's door, with a step-ladder from the neighbor's front yard, to get into the rig. I'm hoping that raising the gutter to tuck under the roof overhang will give enough clearance. When we cut the roof back, we put it at the same level as before, because there's a 45-degree mitered corner in the gutter between the west and south sides of the garage.
In the 5 houses either side of ours, and a similar number on the other side of the street, 8 of us have RVs or boats and two more are multi-vehicle families with 4 or more vehicles. Several of the others, and some further down the street, are snowbirds with winter homes in Arizona, Hawaii, southern RGV or Mexico, so it's a fairly laid-back neighborhood.
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