clean top of slide

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. ;)