RV & Camper Maintenance

Replacing Our Exterior Slide Seal

Replacing Our Exterior Slide Seal

The top slide seal on our camper was in pretty bad shape. With all of the Facebook posts we’d seen, it looked like replacing even a portion of these slide seals is super expensive to have done by a dealer. Being we love DIY we decided to do it ourselves. We began looking up slide

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How to Install a Digital Thermostat in Your RV

How to Install a Digital Thermostat in Your RV

If your RV’s thermostat is anything like ours has always been, it doesn’t work well. Our thermostat was getting bad to the point where barley nudging the temperature adjustment plus or minus 1 degree would cause a 10 degree or more difference for when the AC would cut on. Taking a break from driving all

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Making Our RV Door Handle Look Like New Again

Making Our RV Door Handle Look Like New Again

The swing out handle to our RV was starting to look pretty worn out. Instead of replacing it, you know we did it the RV DIY way! The whole process was easier than you may think and was done while traveling, with half the work done at our free camping spot in Levelland, Texas and

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Replacing the Stove Vent Cover in Our RV

Replacing the Stove Vent Cover in Our RV

We recently were stopped in a shopping center during a pretty big storm, when we noticed water pouring in above our stove. After getting the ladder out and investigating the roof, then pulling apart the range hood to trace the water, we determined the issue was with the vent cover. The flap had broken, and

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Replacing Your RV City Water Connection

Replacing Your RV City Water Connection

The inner-workings of our travel trailer’s City Water Connection became partially damaged during a winter freezing incident. The issue needed a repair when the connection fully broke, and would no longer function properly when hooked up to city water. As always, we wanted to put together a quick how-to for those who may need to

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How To Fix A Rip Or Tear In An RV Furniture Cushion

How To Fix A Rip Or Tear In An RV Furniture Cushion

Box cutters and RV furniture don’t mix! Despite that fact we use them on a regular basis during our work day. We try not to open boxes on or near furniture, but sometimes in a hurry we forget. Two times over the last year that has led to disaster. We ended up with a cut

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Adding a Coat Hook Should be Easy…

Adding a Coat Hook Should be Easy…

During the winter, we quickly learned how much valuable space a variety of coats can take up in a camper. Normally, mounting a coat hook in the wall is a fairly simple process and does not involve more than a screwdriver and about 5 minutes worth of work. So, we installed coat hooks that matched our

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Replacing Our Magic Chef RV Oven Thermostat

Replacing Our Magic Chef RV Oven Thermostat

During a cleaning and inspection of our oven, Laurie noticed two lonely wires which turned out to be one wire that had melted in half. Then, after a few times using the oven, we determined it was getting way hotter than it should. Let’s just say your stove top should never get hot enough to

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Keeping Our Camper Warm by Keeping the Cold Out

Keeping Our Camper Warm by Keeping the Cold Out

We’ll be spending our first winter as full-timers in our home state, Virginia. Our camper is not 4 seasons – heck, the waste tanks aren’t even enclosed. Our adventure this winter, will be keeping ourselves warm, our tanks un-frozen, and everything as comfy cozy as possible. In the process, we’ll be listing all of our

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Repairing Our First City Water Connection Leak

Repairing Our First City Water Connection Leak

I guess it’s inevitable; eventually your water system is going to leak somewhere. While wintering in Virginia, we were doing an inspection of our water lines to make sure we were keeping everything warm enough to prevent freezing. That’s when we noticed the interior connection to the city water hook-up had a pretty steady drip,

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Recaulking Your RV – A Tale of Sealing Our Camper

Recaulking Your RV – A Tale of Sealing Our Camper

Laurie wanted to re-seal our camper from the day we bought it. After noticing a small damp area next to our slide, she finally had all the reason she needed to purchase all of the tools and begin the process. Unfortunately, in her first few seams, she followed the advice found in some places on

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Adding Thumb Screws to Our Camper Vent Covers

Adding Thumb Screws to Our Camper Vent Covers

Tinker-ers, DIY-ers, and those of us that just want to check everything, often. We pull wood screws out of the vents, put them back, pull them out again, put them back. All of this wears down the wood, increases the potential of stripping out the hole, and is a general pain that consumes the time

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