Woke up this morning with many projects facing me. One of the biggest was putting up the sun shade on the barn door. You see our door faces west and when the sun is setting in the afternoon it gets real hot in the RV. The windshield multiplies the heat 10 fold and it is all the AC unit can do to keep up with the temps as they rise. I decided to get a sun screen and hang it in the door of the barn so I could open and close it much like a shower curtain. When the sun comes up in the morning we don’t need the sun screen up but when 3:00 o’clock comes around we need something to shield it from the front of the MH.
I went down to Lowes and bought some wire and turnbuckles to stretch across the top of the barn opening. I have ordered a sun screen out of the Camping World book that I will put grommets in across the top and down each side. On the top grommets I will install shower curtain hooks to ride on the wire and the grommets on each side I will bungee to the metal frame. With the shade hooked to the wire I can open and close it much like a window curtain and then bungee it tight to each side when it is drawn closed. I hope this works for those hot summer months ahead.
I do hope that soon we will not be here in the hot summer so all this will not be needed then. My Direct TV box is located in the front cabinets over the passenger seat and when that sun beats down on the front windshield it over heats the box and it shuts off. For now I have a fan that I blow on the box to try and keep it cool but maybe the shade will keep me from having to do that?
OK that project is done less the shade which I learned yesterday is on backorder. We have to find some shower curtain hooks also to hang it up when it gets here.
I also bought a Flo-Jet for the dump…but I am thinking about taking it back. I think I can just use my Blueboy to haul off my waste and dump it in my BIL Septic Tank located next door. I noticed on the instructions for the macerator that maximum hose length was 50 foot. I had thought it would pump further than that? If anyone out there knows something I don’t let me know.
Just got word that they only need one person to work Monday so Sherri is going to stay home and catch up on some things she has been putting off for some time. I will pack up and head out Sunday and work two days and then get back home Tuesday night. We will then load up the house and take off for Tyler Texas and work there and then on to Gladewater. WOW traveling is one thing we still do…just not going to places we want to go to.
OK I have a lot to get done before I get on the road so I will sign off here and catch you later….
Somewhere in Time
5 comments:
The sun shade is a must... we have one but it snaps on the front of the coach... It cuts down the heat alot coming in the front. I also close the curtains just to double up.
Have fun
Donna
You need to rest, you are making me tired.
Stay Safe
joe i use 175 ft of 3/4 hose to pump up hill works just fine been useing it since we were all in branson years ago
I installed a Flo-Jet macerator with 75' of 3/4" hose and it worked well until it burned up after 3 uses. Flo-Jet has a bad rep as a sump pump and proved it once again on my RV. If there were another brand, I would install another one.
Hi Just found your blog, and see that you have a problem I had,If you go to www.hitchitch.com and check his blog on how he got rid of his blue has pic.s.. when I did my I went to a farm supply place had every thing I needed for $150.00 I than put my truck 30 ft from trailer dumped to truck done in 5 mins. so easy for what its. worth,, John
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