A 'Bright' Idea
Ceiling vents are great for letting air in and out of an RV. Unfortunately, when the sun streams thr...
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A Slippery Situation
The shower floor in our new trailer became quite slippery once the soapy water hit it. To correct th...
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Booster Table
Our dinette was not big enough to seat more than two people ? or four very friendly folks. In my sea...
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Can You Hear Me?
Our television is located diagonally across the living area from where my husband likes to sit in ou...
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Dangling Dryer
Whenever possible, I prefer to hang-dry any laundry done while traveling by RV. This was a hassle wh...
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Foil the Heat
There is a great amount of heat that enters your RV via the various skylights during storage in the ...
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Heated Mattress Pad
When it is cool or damp, use a heated mattress pad to warm up your bed. You'll be able to keep your...
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Keepin' It All Cool
Our RV air conditioner did not cool the large kitchen/ dining room in our 27-foot motorhome sufficie...
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Plain Jane Gauge
Here's an easy way to make a freshwater level indicator for your RV. Purchase a couple of feet of cl...
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Shoes Galore
One of the storage problems in our fifth-wheel has always been where to put all the extra pairs of s...
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STICK IT TO 'EM
My wife and I were camping in South Carolina recently. We had the doors open for a while so we could...
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A Strapping Idea
Our problem was finding the pull-down strap that gets buried within a rolled-up RV awning, and once ...
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Cabinet Lock-Up
Many owners complain about securing the drawers and cabinets in fifth-wheels with rear kitchens. For...
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Chill Out
Those of us who travel extensively in our RVs have come to know that our refrigerators don’t cool ve...
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Clean Coffee
I would like to share an easy and clean way to make coffee while RVing. I make coffee pouches out of...
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Clock Watchers
One of the first things we missed on our first outing with our new trailer was an illuminated digita...
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Double-Duty Brew For Two
Never underestimate the multiple uses of the common stovetop coffee percolator when camping. Especi...
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Flower Children
If you want to keep the “admiral” happy while traveling, consider bringing along a little greenery f...
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Free Wrapping
Want to add some protection from flying road debris and vibration chafing to those loose electrical ...
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Good Medicine
The medicine cabinet in my new trailer has no lips on the fronts of the shelves to keep toilet artic...
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Mini Rain Gutter
I used so-called j-Channel to create miniature rain gutters on the sides on my RV. This material, w...
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Never Out of Touch
Radio reception in mountainous area campgrounds is often very poor or altogether nonexistent. Howev...
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No More Unrolling
If you are having trouble keeping the paper towels from unrolling while on the road, strap the roll ...
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On the Roll
I use a plastic, 2-liter soft-drink bottle (cut as shown in the illustration) to hold both the paper...
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Peg-Leg Helper
I use a telescoping patio door lock bar to assist me on those occasions when I have to unfold the fa...
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Pooch Palace
Our new trailer has everything that we could want, except a place for Poco, our medium-size beagle. ...
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Primitive, But Clever
Having a 50-gallon freshwater tank and a broken monitor panel made it very difficult to determine ...
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Protective Proposition
RV owners frequently mount aftermarket hardware on the backs of their units. These have the potentia...
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Shrink Fit
After a few years of camping in all kinds of weather, the vinyl side to my family's pop-up camper se...
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Table Cacophony
After listening to the storable dining table in my RV announce every bump in the road, I decided to ...
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The Key to Success
If your RV is like mine, you have a ring full of keys for various compartments, hitches, bike racks,...
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Tinkering With Tile
Unlined trailer shelves are a source of irritation to me. Contact paper doesn’t stick well, and thu...
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Tip and Tumble
Wall-mounted cupboards stretch for several feet across the front of our trailer. But, despite nonsli...
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Vent Fan Improvement
I have a roof-mounted vent fan in the bathroom of my rig, but it isn’t very efficient at pulling air...
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What About Baby?
We have a 26-foot 1993 travel trailer, which we love. However, with three children, we needed to mak...
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