Russ - yes - ka-ching $$ We are going with electric in the cockpit (dash) area and in the salon (living room), but only for the night shades. Dave Townsley (principal of MCD) recommended we stick with manual sun shades (except for the dash) since they stay mostly in the down position all of the time. When we get ready for bed, we will push one button and all of the night shades will lower.
Clay - I was wondering the same thing. I'll let you know.
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The morning started out with a couple of MCD techs delivering a welcome goodie bag at about 8:15 am with places to eat, shop, sightsee, etc., and they introduced themselves. BTW, MCD has free WiFi and the security code was included in the information. A little later in the morning, our coach looked like a BBQ joint on nickle beer night. We had three techs, Dave, Jane, me, Sassy and Trekkie the cat all vying for space.
The techs were busy measuring (and removing the "A" pillars, and removed a cornice board on one of the windows), and Dave was discussing possibilities with Jane and me. The cockpit area of our Horizon will be fairly simple to convert to American Duo shades (fortunately.)
While I was interested in electric shades for the cockpit area, Dave gave Jane and me a tour of his Monaco (I was surprised to find out Dave and spouse are long-term fulltimers) and demonstrated his electric blinds. When Dave pushed a button on the remote control to lower
all of the night shades, I was completely hooked - I had to have them.
Ooh baby!We chose a
material, B34 which wasn't real difficult since there weren't a zillion choices. Having a limited number of selections might be better since we didn't stress over a color or shade of color - all of the selections were pretty close in color (to me at least, but as a guy, there are only about five or six colors - total
)
Even though I have a fairly good woodworking shop, I decided to let MCD have some trim pieces made for the dash area and for the little window by our lounge chair on the LR slide. It will be nice to pull out of here knowing the job is completely finished and I don't have to mess with it when we return home (I have lots of other stuff to do.)
Speaking of ka-ching $$ - we really didn't sit down and approve a firm price quote, but I suspect we will easily be over a couple of kilobucks. We are steering a course and know what we want, so we aren't going to stress over the cost of the project. The new shades will
dramatically improve the enjoyability and functionality of the coach and will considerably update it (even though it isn't quite five years old.)
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Pictures:
MCD welcome goodie bag
Measuring and planning in the cockpit area
Dave and Jane talking about choices
Sassy and Jane staying out of the way
Three more coaches rolled in since the other parking lot picture was taken - this is one busy place!
