Cleaning top of slide at campground
My new tt has a slide and this is new for me. The dealer said it was important to clean the slide off before closing it at the campground. What are some easy ways that you clean your slide. I know ...
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It only makes sense to brush or blow off the slide before retracting it. As stated above, sticks and twigs, (anything) could tear the rubber roof, or poke the rubber seals around the slide. And as someone else said, when they don't clean it off, they get leaves and such 'inside' the camper! (and then some folks wonder why their slides leak around the seals, hum????)
I keep a ladder and a broom available all the time so I can brush all 3 of my slides off before retracting. Pain in the neck? Maybe? But a ripped roof or punctured seals is a bigger pain in the neck AND the pocketbook!
I brush until it's 100% free of everything. I use a painters pole (a long one that collapses with a soft fluffy RV brush). I keep a 6 foot step ladder in the bed of the truck. And every time the slides are retracted, I brush them off first. Also, while I have the brush, I usually run it in the gutter track. It bunches up with small droppings from trees real fast. This has just become part of the camp tear down procedure. I've spent too much on my camper to simply disregard something so simple to do and could result in such an expensive repair. Whenever parked under trees, you are taking a risk if you don't clean it off.
An easier way? I haven't found one yet, and I'm the guy that's always looking for the easiest solution.
Last week-end we were parked near a tree. I dropped all kinds of small stuff on the camper, truck, all around and we were not even directly under the tree. The little green seed pods (or whatever they were), were real sticky. They clung to everything. I had to really work to get them off the dog! And the awning and the slides. But I did and the dog is much happier now too! (and so am I).
I keep a ladder and a broom available all the time so I can brush all 3 of my slides off before retracting. Pain in the neck? Maybe? But a ripped roof or punctured seals is a bigger pain in the neck AND the pocketbook!
I brush until it's 100% free of everything. I use a painters pole (a long one that collapses with a soft fluffy RV brush). I keep a 6 foot step ladder in the bed of the truck. And every time the slides are retracted, I brush them off first. Also, while I have the brush, I usually run it in the gutter track. It bunches up with small droppings from trees real fast. This has just become part of the camp tear down procedure. I've spent too much on my camper to simply disregard something so simple to do and could result in such an expensive repair. Whenever parked under trees, you are taking a risk if you don't clean it off.
An easier way? I haven't found one yet, and I'm the guy that's always looking for the easiest solution.
Last week-end we were parked near a tree. I dropped all kinds of small stuff on the camper, truck, all around and we were not even directly under the tree. The little green seed pods (or whatever they were), were real sticky. They clung to everything. I had to really work to get them off the dog! And the awning and the slides. But I did and the dog is much happier now too! (and so am I).
