RV covers - Questions for those that use them
My new to me 2016 ORV Timber Ridge 280RKS is beautiful and I want to do my best to keep it that way. With that said, I purchased an ADCO Designer Series RV cover. I used one on my previous RV wh...
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I don't use a cover any more. Too much work, we use our camper too much in the winter, and I'm just getting to old to mess with it. But when I did have a cover, here's how I put it on.
The very first time, I laid it on the ground just like it would be if on the camper. I then pulled the side over on the top (which is now on the bottom. I then folded (length wise), over onto itself in 1/4 folds, until what was left was a strip only 1/4 that of the original width. (if campers are 8 feet wide, the cover is now folded 2 feet wide length wise).
I then rolled the cover from the back to the front, and did it this way every time. Always front to back. With the entire cover into a gigantic short hot-dog, I'd lift it on the ladder and lay it on the roof of the camper at the front. Then I could simply walk and unroll it from the front to the back. Then unfold the quarter folds (lengthwise), and then simply drop the side over. Climb down and snug everything up.
After that first time, I never had lay it on the ground again. To remove it, I pulled the sides up and laid them over the top (on the top of the trailer). Then length wise, folded into a 1/4 length again. Then rolled it back up ... back to front... always. This way, I knew when unrolling next winter, it always started to unroll from the front.
I covered for several years this way. Mine had holes for the rain gutters after the first season with the cover. I just made sure those same holes always lined up with the rain gutters and never worried about it. Actually, the holes with the rain gutters poking through helped hold the cover down .... putting it on and removing it.
I just laid mine on top of the television antenna, but I did have to remove to radio antenna. I just took the set-screw out and put the antenna inside the camper. Actually, that was the part I hated most.
Here again, I quit using a cover, and never used a cover on my current camper because we use the camper throughout the winter. We take winter trips, go to Florida and South Carolina the week of Christmas and the week of March 10, every year. And the we sometimes do a dry winter camp at a state park, and we sleep in the camper all winter in the drive way until outside temps drop to about zero. Then we shut down and move in the house. So covering and uncovering with snow and cold is just too much of pain. So we don't cover any more. The camper just gets used too much in the winter.
The very first time, I laid it on the ground just like it would be if on the camper. I then pulled the side over on the top (which is now on the bottom. I then folded (length wise), over onto itself in 1/4 folds, until what was left was a strip only 1/4 that of the original width. (if campers are 8 feet wide, the cover is now folded 2 feet wide length wise).
I then rolled the cover from the back to the front, and did it this way every time. Always front to back. With the entire cover into a gigantic short hot-dog, I'd lift it on the ladder and lay it on the roof of the camper at the front. Then I could simply walk and unroll it from the front to the back. Then unfold the quarter folds (lengthwise), and then simply drop the side over. Climb down and snug everything up.
After that first time, I never had lay it on the ground again. To remove it, I pulled the sides up and laid them over the top (on the top of the trailer). Then length wise, folded into a 1/4 length again. Then rolled it back up ... back to front... always. This way, I knew when unrolling next winter, it always started to unroll from the front.
I covered for several years this way. Mine had holes for the rain gutters after the first season with the cover. I just made sure those same holes always lined up with the rain gutters and never worried about it. Actually, the holes with the rain gutters poking through helped hold the cover down .... putting it on and removing it.
I just laid mine on top of the television antenna, but I did have to remove to radio antenna. I just took the set-screw out and put the antenna inside the camper. Actually, that was the part I hated most.
Here again, I quit using a cover, and never used a cover on my current camper because we use the camper throughout the winter. We take winter trips, go to Florida and South Carolina the week of Christmas and the week of March 10, every year. And the we sometimes do a dry winter camp at a state park, and we sleep in the camper all winter in the drive way until outside temps drop to about zero. Then we shut down and move in the house. So covering and uncovering with snow and cold is just too much of pain. So we don't cover any more. The camper just gets used too much in the winter.
