Thursday, February 23, 2017

Dealing with high wind

High winds in your RV can be scary and loud.  While we were in Albuquerque, we had 50+ MPH winds on several nights.  The noise from the small slide toppers covering the slideouts was enough to keep us awake at night and worry us about potential damage to those coverings.  After a quick internet search on the problems and solutions, I went to the nearest Home Depot to get a sheet of styrofoam.  I cut pieces to match the openings on each slide out and used duct tape to hold those pieces in.  This is not my best engineering work, but it worked, which is the litmus test for all engineering.  Adding some foam or other material to block the high winds from blowing under the mini-awnings will drastically reduce the noise within the coach and also help prevent the material from being stretched and failing.



No comments:

Post a Comment