Hanging items on an RV Door

[tjw0099]

Hi there,

My wife and I sold our 1985 Coleman Chesapeake pop up and purchased a 2006 Jayco Jayflight 25' travel trailer with a 10' slide that goes 18".

We are ecstatic about the upgrade.

My question is this:

She would like to install 2 towel hangers on the bathroom door of the camper. The door is hollow and an inch in thickness.

I would like input before I 'jump to it'.

I've looked on Youtube and haven't seen anything that explains this other than using rivets (which aren't necessary in this case) and the Heavy Duty 3M hooks.

Just to clarify - she doesn't want the hooks! 😛

I thought about using the screws that come with the plastic anchors, but I figured I'd wait for professional feedback.

Thanks!!

Tom in Gloucester, VA

[lbrjet]

Ours came with a metal 18'' towel bar on the door and we added a 2nd half way down. No drilling, just screwed into the door. We hang our wet towels while traveling and no problems after 16.5K miles.

[LarryJM]

Our previous trailer had a niffty towel rack on the door and DW liked it so much I made one like it for this trailer and mounted it to the door permanently using the afore mentioned "moly bolts". I made it out of some oak flooring I had laying around, but you can buy red oak planks at Lowes also. It's an easy DIY project that anyone can do fairly easily. We use it mainly to store clean towels for ready use and to hang dry towels that are currently being used. We also have a couple of the over the door hooks, but like the permanent rack better since it keeps the towels close to the door and they don't fall of when traveling.

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Larry

[2012Coleman]

The over the door towel hangers as suggested would be your best bet, although I don't see the adversion to the 3M hooks which come off without damaging the surface, nor do I see the weight of a towel pulling off the door skin. Hopefully your resolition won't leave a sticky residue. You might also try finding hooks with suction cups - Amazon is where I'd start. We use one on the front door to hang a wreath at Christmas. Hapy camping!

[kend40]

smokedummy wrote:
I hate making any permanent modification (like drilling holes) if I can help it. I got 4 clear plastic towel hanger-hook-things from walmart that just slip over the top edge of the door.

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[ReferDog]

Check out those 3M sticky back things that don't take off the paint/stain/paper
lots of combo of those.

[doxiluvr]

I found an over-the-door 2 towel hanger at Walmart and that is what we use. For wet washcloths I bought a couple of those suction hook things and put right on the tub opposite the shower head. Works well for us.

[TNGW1500SE]

I use these to mount stuff to the walls. You can screw the bolt out later and not loose the nut down in the wall.

[Dryfly01]

If you really want to drill holes in the door, then 5/32" x 3/4" Molly Bolts are what you want, but I agree with the others and would go for the over-the-door route. Also, no room on the wall anywhere? I'm sure you would have already done that if there was, but thought I'd mention it..

[tjw0099]

Thanks again for the advice.

I will be sure to tell the wife not to let the towels hang while we are traveling.

My concern with the molly bolts or bolting in at all, is the thinness of the door skin. The weight of the towels could cause it to pull the door skin, whereas the velcro would just come apart.

[ADK_Camper]

For a permanent installation, I recommend "molly" bolts. You should be able to find them at any hardware store. They come in different sizes based on the thickness of the material they will be fastened to. You want to get "molly" bolts designed for thin material. I used them to mount a paper towel holder under the kitchen cabinet. As you might expect there is a lot of tugging on the towels, but the bolts have held just fine. A final caution: Molly bolts are permanent. Once installed they cannot be removed. You can remove and reinstall the towelbar as many times as you want, but the bolts will remain attached to the door.

[dadmomh]

The hooks sound great with the initials, but I'm thinking that the Velcro won't hold if the towels are up in transit. The bouncing along caused our Velcro project to come loose and we ended up having to go with screws....IIRC DH used the plastic anchors for the replacement. We were putting up just a rod hanger for a decorative wallhanging so the weight was considerably less. Suggest you leave the towels off until you're set up.

[shelbyj]

Get something like this

Over the door hanger

[tjw0099]

Thanks everyone.

We decided to use some heavy duty velcro to hold up the hooks.

The hooks were purchased 4 years ago and has her first initial and my first initial on them, respectively.

Hopefully the velcro will work.

I will post a review of it on this link after we've used it a few times.

I really appreciate the time and input!

Tom in Gloucester, VA

[wannavolunteerF]

Be sure you really want a towel bar on the door. I had a toilet paper holder on my door, and it was in the way if the door open all the way. I took it off because at night I would leave the door standing open all the way and then would hit the holder as I walked down the narrow hall past the door.