Heating & cooling TT with large picture window.

Our rear living floor plan has a large center back window and 2 side windows. See pic



And yes, the more single pane glass you have regardless of where it is, the harder it will be to heat and cool.

We do winter camp, all year round when night temps go well below freezing. When we do this, we take precautions for winter camping. We have to deal with the trapped internal moisture, we vent (the roof vent) and use a dehumidifier. We also use the shrink wrap clear plastic on the inside of the windows to stop the heavy condensation on the windows. This helps with the heat loss. It is very cheap, works well but it does take time to put on.

If you are buying a new camper, storm windows or double pane windows are options on some brands. If you are worried about heat loss and hard to cool, consider these upgrades.

Our brand of camper was noted for bright interiors that let natural light in. Thus we have lots of windows. The ability to have that over a camper with a fraction of the windows outweighs the negatives in our opinion. All those windows also open to let air in which is nice when the weather outside is nice. If we ever buy another new camper, it will have storm windows or double pane glass.

Hope this helps

John

PS. if you are buying a new camper and the camper is 28 feet plus long, see if they have a 15,000 btu AC unit over the 13,500 standard option. It makes a difference with a lot of windows on a hot summer day.

Don't notice that with my very large dual pane rear picture window. Best part of my RV.

JBarca hit the nail on the head. we have lots of windows in ours, enjoy they view and light.

On ours I did make poor man's double pane by cutting lexan to fit over the inside of the windows that don't open. It makes a very noticeable difference in the winter, don't know about the summer yet.

Yes the are harder to heat and cool I use double cell blinds to help insulate the windows. I have two four foot by four foot and one four foot by two foot widow's in the bedroom alone. I feel like I live in a fish bowl.

Do you like living in a "fish bowl", or do you have second thoughts about having so much glass?

colliehauler wrote:
Yes the are harder to heat and cool I use double cell blinds to help insulate the windows. I have two four foot by four foot and one four foot by two foot widow's in the bedroom alone. I feel like I live in a fish bowl.

To broaden my question to "colliehauler", do any of you wish you had gotten a trailer will fewer and smaller windows? Or are the many and larger windows worth the "price of admission"?

Atlee wrote:
To broaden my question to "colliehauler", do any of you wish you had gotten a trailer will fewer and smaller windows? Or are the many and larger windows worth the "price of admission"?

I wish mine didn't have so large of windows in the bedroom. The living room I like having them. With the insulated blinds I just leave them closed in the bedroom.

Most definitely worth the price of admission for the living room, the bedroom what were they thinking.

I will make sure my next rv has double pane tinted windows.

colliehauler wrote:


I will make sure my next rv has double pane tinted windows.

before you do, do a search for dual pain problems and cost of replacement.
bumpy

Bumpyroad wrote:

colliehauler wrote:


I will make sure my next rv has double pane tinted windows.

before you do, do a search for dual pain problems and cost of replacement.
bumpy

By the time I upgrade they probably won't have windows, Just cameras and monitors to show pictures of the outside. LOL

Atlee wrote:
To broaden my question to "colliehauler", do any of you wish you had gotten a trailer will fewer and smaller windows? Or are the many and larger windows worth the "price of admission"?

In our case, we wanted the extra windows. And yes, we did pay a little more for the upgrade in brand. They also all open. To save costs, manufactures use smaller and fewer windows and some do not open. I don't think the cost of the actual window is as bad as the labor to cut the hole, put the sealing tape on and screw the window in.

A lot of light in the bedroom.... This one is for sure a personal choice, I myself like to wake up with natural light. The DW... she wants this thing like a cave... Our fix, she made light blocking curtains. So we can have a cave at night... and sunshine in the morning "after" we get up.:)

To the comment on issues with double pane, thanks I'll check that out. I was more leaning towards storm windows. There are pro's and con's. The pro's to storms, you can have single hung windows, picture window and crank outs which really help on rain days to let air in, you can still get fresh air in with a screen. On double pane I have only seen them that tilt out on the bottom with limited amount of air coming in and in some case no screen. There may be more opening options on double pane, just I have not seen them. And naturally the down side on storms, you have to take them down and put them up. In our case, this is like the shrink wrap we use. But we only do it once a year so it is not that bad.

Hope this helps

John