Thursday, January 12, 2012

Odd, isn't it?

A lot of people ask me about the maintenance required by our motorhome.  I've always answered that it's not bad, really similar to owning a house, albeit one that rocks and rolls down the road.  But now and then something happens that's hard to comprehend.
As I mentioned, while we were in Summerdale, AL we had gone up to clean the roof.  We scrubbed and scrubbed and sprayed high pressure water all over the roof for hours, then over the last few days we've had torrential rains and nary a leak..........until yesterday afternoon!  Out of nowhere with just a drizzle I went into the bathroom to find a leak dripping in alongside the Fantastic Fan vent in the roof.  I went up on the roof to check it out and since I couldn't find anything amiss, I asked the real professional, Jan to go up and take a look(amazing what she can see as compared to me), and she couldn't find anything either.  So today we are going up to completely reseal and recaulk the vent.
We received our WiFI Ranger yesterday, and had planned to install it today, but the weather report has changed from sunny and windy to rainy and windy so we will hold off a couple days.  We are planning to do a temporary install just to see how it works.  The permanent install will involve mounting the exterior antenna to our "Batwing" antenna.  The Batwing is an antenna found on most every RV to receive TV signal.  They fold down on the roof for travel and extend up and can rotate when in use.  Few people actually use them since most of us use satellite or cable available in the majority of the campgrounds.  The wire then needs to be run into the motorhome, and my plan is to run it down into the rooftop refrigerator vent into an unused cabinet where the wireless router will live.  It used to be all RV's of all kinds had RV refrigerators, that work with no moving parts, just an application of heat, by either propane or electric, to cause an ammonia mixture inside to evaporate and condense causing cooling.  Well, the frigs required either a roof vent or a side vent to dissipate the heat.  We have a residential refrigerator in our motorhome, but it was an option so the roof vent is still there.  It makes a readily accessible area to run wires down into the coach, in fact the wires from our solar panel gain access there now.
We'll let you all know how well the WiFi Ranger works as we go along.

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