clean top of slide

I use a step ladder and broom to sweep off the debris before pulling in the slides, (use the ladder to clean the windshield/front cap also). When washing the MH, I get on the roof and wash the top of the slide toppers with an extendable brush.

DutchmenSport wrote:
I use a step ladder and have a very long telescoping painter's wand. Rather than attaching a paint roller, I attach a soft brush. Climb up the ladder, brush off the top of the slides. I do this EVERY time before I close the slides. I also use a leaf blower. But when it's wet, the brush works better.

So bringing along my 7 foot step ladder has simply become part of the standard camping gear. Makes me glad I have an 8 foot bed truck!

I have a lightweight aluminum 3-step ladder similar to this that fits nicely in the back of my short bed Avalanche and allows me to clear the top of our slide with a brush attached to a short, fiberglass double section painter's pole that extends out to perhaps 10'. This pole is sufficiently long when fully extended to also clear the awning of debris before retracting yet is short enough when collapsed to store in the trailer's front pass through storage compartment. I suppose if we owned a trailer with a long deep slide I might consider a topper but for the shallow sofa slide it's for me not worth the investment. One other point - even a slide topper won't necessarily prevent snow and ice buildup atop the slide under some conditions, you may still have to get up there and clear it out before retracting the slide, just as I recently did for a friend because he had no ladder on hand. Kinda makes me wish for the earlier days when we owned a trailer with NO slide. ;)

Go to Home Depot and buy a 10' plastic 2" x 3" light weight gutter down pipe and curved end. Cut the down pipe to the necessary length to reach the top of your slide.
Any cheap electric leaf blower tube will slide inside the down pipe.
I have a toro and it fits perfect.
You can also buy a cheap inspection mirror to check your work.

I hated getting the ladder out of the under belly storage area on my 5'er.

Forget the topper I have had them both ways. Just get up on the roof and sweep the slides off. Good to get up there to look the roof over anyway.

Ladder and electric leaf blower.

1) Ascend attached ladder with broom, it either being tossed or carried

2) Sweep said slide top

3) Toss broom to ground and descend ladder with the knowledge that the job has been done without annoying neighbors with the likes of a blower

4) In the unlikely event that I fall off the roof, I'll still make less noise than that nasty blower! ):

Step ladder and a squeegee on an extendable pole for me.

I have a 8 ft ladder and a powerfull leaf blower. I set the ladder half way on the ground in the middle of the 14 ft slide out. Takes less than a min to blow the slide off. I had covers on the slide but the wind tore them up . Never replaced them

I use a step ladder and have a very long telescoping painter's wand. Rather than attaching a paint roller, I attach a soft brush. Climb up the ladder, brush off the top of the slides. I do this EVERY time before I close the slides. I also use a leaf blower. But when it's wet, the brush works better.

So bringing along my 7 foot step ladder has simply become part of the standard camping gear. Makes me glad I have an 8 foot bed truck!

We carry a small electric blower with a long curved nozzle extension (designed for gutters) that we use to blow off the leaves and twigs.