To cover, or not to cover?

DutchmenSport wrote:
It's a chore getting a cover on and off. If you keep it covered and uncover when you use it, then cover when you come home again ... you're going to get very tired of doing this very quick!

If you cover over the winter, and you live in a climate that's not pleasant in the winter, it can have advantages. If you winter camp often, it's all a matter of how often you put it on and take it off until you get tired of doing it.

I've owned a cover for every full height trailer we've owned and always use it for winter storage, putting it on at the end of fall and taking it off in early spring, so although it is a bit of a chore IMO it's well worth protecting the roof seams and awning from the effects of constant snow & ice melting / freezing we see here often in Ontario during the winter. However, it's far too much work to put on after each camping trip then remove for the next so I'd never consider using it during the camping season ... and the bigger the trailer the more difficult the task would be simply because there's just that much more material to deal with. I've never had to worry about the effects of blazing hot summer sun like that in S Carolina but I doubt even that would convince me to use a cover during the camping season as it's just too much work and that alone might convince me to instead pay for covered storage of some sort.