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Grab one corner and crack it like a whip. Of course, longer terrycloth bath towels work better than paper towels, especially those torn into short squares.
My neighbor here at the ranch came up with a neat idea when a skylight recently smashed in a hail storm. The resident RV repair guy was away for a couple of weeks, and he (the neighbor) was unable to get on the roof. He pushed a small umbrella up through the opening, deployed it, and secured the handle. Voila! A dry coach interior until the repair guy returned.
I use an indoor/outdoor thermometer, the kind with the readout at one end of the wire and the sensor on the other end, to see how cold my fridge is. I just put the sensor over the door so the end is inside and leave the readout hanging on the outside of the door. Keeps me from looking inside to check to see if it's cold or even too cold!
Windshield Wiper CoversDriving around the southwest, you don't have much rain so little need to use the windshield wipers. So I've gotten kind of lazy and hadn't taken off my covers while driving. Well, in that high wind leaving FMCA-ABQ, both covers blew off, first time in thousands of miles. So I went to Lowe's and bought new exact replacements---for $1.18. I use the pre-scored foam pipe insulation, 6' long, 1" OD. I cut it in half and I have windshield wiper covers for each wiper blade for less than 60¢ each. Keeps the blade off the windshield and protects the rubber from the sun.
For those of us "mature" enough to remember curb feelers, here is an updated model.I used swimming noodles, marked the distance I need to comfortably open my slides, and inserted them into the fence. Now I watch the noodles in the mirrors, line the rig up so they just touch and perfect parking! And if I get too close and bump the noodles, no worries!
We have manual 'scissor' type stabilizer jacks (4) on our travel trailer and rather than cranking each jack down by hand, I bought a Camco Leveling Scissor Jack Drill Socket to use with my husbands cordless drill.It only takes us a few seconds to go around and lower/raise up each of the jacks.
One suggestion on the smoke detector.... Invite the cigar smoking friend OUTSIDE the motor home and remove the detector to the outside for the test... That way the rig don't smell of cigar for the next way too long.For water spiogts and a few other things as well. Get a small pump spray bottle (Most drug stores have them, as do dollar stores) and fill with bleach water, Just a "Cap full" for the small bottle is more than enough. Spritz the spigiot at the park before you start to get your hoses out. it will be nice and sanatary when you hook up.... No matter what the dog ... Or it's master... Did before you arrived. Also useful when you need to clean up an unsanatary mess.. Germs consider Bleach to be... Well, let's just bugs like Raid Better.
From the August 2017 issue of the BOATUS magazine, here are six easy tips/hacks that can be applied in the RV world.
One of the tips from the BOATUS magazine was using talc inside gloves. Corn starch likewise works and, in my house, is always handy. My hands sweat inside those rubber gloves which makes putting them on an ordeal. Sprinkling in corn starch and shaking makes it lots easier. Suppose baking soda would also do the trick.
