My daughter was getting a little warm in her bunk during our last camping trip, so I decided to put her a fan in to keep the air flowing.
I had been wanting to add a 12-volt fan to the main living area anyway, so I decided to tackle both jobs today. A trip to Wal-Mart for two fans($8.48 each) and we're halfway there.
She picked the spot, and I got to work -
I picked up the power from her overhead light. All I have left is to install a short piece of wire cover and I'm done -
I added one in the main area -
I dropped by Lowe's and found this cool soap dispenser. I also just installed these Pop-a-Toothbrush holders -
I added a sopa dispenser to the kitchen area as well. I also installed a Pop-a-Napkin under the radio -
Here's an easy mod. I found this over the door towel rack at Walmart and it works great -
I had been wanting to add a 12-volt fan to the main living area anyway, so I decided to tackle both jobs today. A trip to Wal-Mart for two fans($8.48 each) and we're halfway there.
She picked the spot, and I got to work -
I picked up the power from her overhead light. All I have left is to install a short piece of wire cover and I'm done -
I added one in the main area -
I dropped by Lowe's and found this cool soap dispenser. I also just installed these Pop-a-Toothbrush holders -
I added a sopa dispenser to the kitchen area as well. I also installed a Pop-a-Napkin under the radio -
Here's an easy mod. I found this over the door towel rack at Walmart and it works great -
After putting up a closet rod at the DD's new house I had an idea on a ladder for the Grand-kids to access the top bunk in the TT.
While originally thinking of doing it all in PVC, I was using a length of vinyl coated wooden closet rod from Home Depot that looked about the same size.... Hmmmm.
On the way home I picked up a single 1" PVC "T" from the local HWI to take home and test fit onto my scrap rod... sure enough, even though the Rod is 1-1/4" a 1" PVC "T" had nice snug fit! (stay with me here...PVC pipe is measured by it's ID while the closet rod is by it's OD.)
Did the math and next time I was at Home Depot picked up enough of the closet Rod, two 1-1/4" rubber feet and two 1" PVC Caps and their 1" PVC "T"s to tackle my project.
I cut everthing to size for 12" wide treads, and at a shorter 10" rise for the Tots little legs and started assembly.
Here is where I ran into a snag. While the rod did have a snug fit it was a little too snug to put all the way into the "T" by hand so I used a mallet to fully seat it. While assembling the rungs I broke the "T"...
I noticed the single test "T" that I had bought from HWI had molded in gussets in the corners and seemed to be better material.
So back to HWI for their superior pieces. Having already commited myself to a bunch of cut up closet rod, I even took an extra precaution and warmed the PVC in hot water while putting it all together.
That worked like a charm! The hot water bath expanded them and probably softened them just enough to make assembly much easier.
I put the two rubber foot caps on the bottom to keep it from sliding and the PVC caps on the other to give it a finished look. Final outcome holds my weight with little flex so I think it's going to be fine for the Grand-Kids to get in and out ofthe top bunk on their own
While originally thinking of doing it all in PVC, I was using a length of vinyl coated wooden closet rod from Home Depot that looked about the same size.... Hmmmm.
On the way home I picked up a single 1" PVC "T" from the local HWI to take home and test fit onto my scrap rod... sure enough, even though the Rod is 1-1/4" a 1" PVC "T" had nice snug fit! (stay with me here...PVC pipe is measured by it's ID while the closet rod is by it's OD.)
Did the math and next time I was at Home Depot picked up enough of the closet Rod, two 1-1/4" rubber feet and two 1" PVC Caps and their 1" PVC "T"s to tackle my project.
I cut everthing to size for 12" wide treads, and at a shorter 10" rise for the Tots little legs and started assembly.
Here is where I ran into a snag. While the rod did have a snug fit it was a little too snug to put all the way into the "T" by hand so I used a mallet to fully seat it. While assembling the rungs I broke the "T"...
I noticed the single test "T" that I had bought from HWI had molded in gussets in the corners and seemed to be better material.
So back to HWI for their superior pieces. Having already commited myself to a bunch of cut up closet rod, I even took an extra precaution and warmed the PVC in hot water while putting it all together.
That worked like a charm! The hot water bath expanded them and probably softened them just enough to make assembly much easier.
I put the two rubber foot caps on the bottom to keep it from sliding and the PVC caps on the other to give it a finished look. Final outcome holds my weight with little flex so I think it's going to be fine for the Grand-Kids to get in and out ofthe top bunk on their own
Here are a couple simple mods we did to our Jayco. Each took less then a half hour to perform.
We boondock mostly and with 2 kids have the potential of going through a ton of water quickly. The first thing we did was to replace the shower with a sink sprayer. Works great for NAVY showers. Get in, get wet, scrub up, rinse off. We can also use the sprayer to rinse out the toilet.
For some reason water always puddled and ran down the sides of the tube so I got some of that plastic wall corner protector and cut it down to size, and filed away the corners and siliconed it to the tub.
Here is a water pump noise muffler. It's made out of sound board, so it's a little hard to work with, but not impossible. it gets the pump off the floor, and encloses it. We also put noddles around all the pipes that made contact with the walls and floor. It reduced the sound significantly.
Our trailer came with a cabnet door that was screwed in place, behind it was the hot water heater. I installed hinges and a door catch. Simple and it gave us a little space to store small things.
Since we boondock for weeks at a time I carry along a 55gal barrel to refill the fresh water I bought a 30 dollar cast iron A/C pump from harbor fright. It drains the barrel in about 5 minutes.
We boondock mostly and with 2 kids have the potential of going through a ton of water quickly. The first thing we did was to replace the shower with a sink sprayer. Works great for NAVY showers. Get in, get wet, scrub up, rinse off. We can also use the sprayer to rinse out the toilet.
For some reason water always puddled and ran down the sides of the tube so I got some of that plastic wall corner protector and cut it down to size, and filed away the corners and siliconed it to the tub.
Here is a water pump noise muffler. It's made out of sound board, so it's a little hard to work with, but not impossible. it gets the pump off the floor, and encloses it. We also put noddles around all the pipes that made contact with the walls and floor. It reduced the sound significantly.
Our trailer came with a cabnet door that was screwed in place, behind it was the hot water heater. I installed hinges and a door catch. Simple and it gave us a little space to store small things.
Since we boondock for weeks at a time I carry along a 55gal barrel to refill the fresh water I bought a 30 dollar cast iron A/C pump from harbor fright. It drains the barrel in about 5 minutes.
Limoges_Camper wrote:crochetdiva wrote:I added a bunch of these to mine. ๐
I'm wondering if anybody has added a washer to a travel trailer?
Washer as in Washer and Dryer
This is the trailer we are thinking of getting and I'm stuck. The bunkhouse is for my business so I'm thinking of the dinette going and putting it there. http://www.rvworldofgeorgia.com/default.asp?page=xInventoryDetail&id=892901&p=1&vc=travel+trailer&s=Year&d=D&fr=xAllInventory
