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Recently sold my 33 foot Jayco Designer double slide and was going to sell my 26 foot, 6500lb '87' Wilderness as well, but have decided to keep it and fix it up a bit as it's a solid unit with good roof and zero leaks or soft spots. Going to paint it some shade of white(I think white), redo the roof+vents, add electric jack, redo the shower, redo the awning, redo all the windows with sliding pvc style and install a quality propane on demand hot water heater that I'll mount to the outside of the unit and plum to current water lines. No roof AC, but I have a 14,000btu portable in one of the closets that vents to outside and it's more than enough lol. I'm figuring probably 5 grand for everything doing it all myself and shopping around which I'm comfortable with and will keep me occupied and out of trouble ha ha.
Bearings seem good and don't get too hot, but I'll replace those anyways just for piece of mind and tires are 2 seasons old with less than 1000kms on them and have a new spare as well of course. They sure don't make em like they use to that's for sure!
For air conditioning, check out the mini splits. They can be very efficient. Some guys are putting the external unit on the tongue, but you don't have much room. The rear bumper is the other option.
For air conditioning, check out the mini splits. They can be very efficient. Some guys are putting the external unit on the tongue, but you don't have much room. The rear bumper is the other option.
I have a 14,000btu portable ac I was planning on setting up inside a closet, but that's a LOT of btu's for this camper and portable units create negative air pressure so I'm 99% sure I'm just going to buy a 6000btu window unit and put in under the main window which I'll have to cut a hole in the wall for it, but that's easy enough and I'll fab up a door for the hole for travel/winter.
I have a portable unit that I use when the rooftop unit isn't enough, which is a very rare situation. A friend of mine borrows the portable unit for his fifth wheel when he goes down to AZ. The portable unit is from when my son was in college and the dorms had no air conditioning. My toy hauler has two vent doors at floor level that are perfect for routing the exhaust heat out through the 6" hose.
I never thought about the negative air pressure. Then again, my trailer has so many air leaks that it probably doesn't matter.
I have a portable unit that I use when the rooftop unit isn't enough, which is a very rare situation. A friend of mine borrows the portable unit for his fifth wheel when he goes down to AZ. The portable unit is from when my son was in college and the dorms had no air conditioning. My toy hauler has two vent doors at floor level that are perfect for routing the exhaust heat out through the 6" hose.
I never thought about the negative air pressure. Then again, my trailer has so many air leaks that it probably doesn't matter.
I already have the portable unit so I'll most likely just set it up in the larger closet and then all I need to do is cut out a 5" vent hole in the wall and cut a few smaller holes for the drain hose to exit on bottom of camper.
Running the exhaust to one of the floor vents is a darn genius idea and i feel stupid for not thinking of it myself lol, but the placement of the ac to do that doesn't work for me so in the closet she will go.
