DON'T Be an RV IDIOT! 6 Must-Know Fixes For Common Problems
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- Опубліковано 27 тра 2024
- In this video, we are going to walk you through some common RV problems that can arise when living the RV Lifestyle and how to fix them.
And I would be willing to bet If you have an RV and you’ve used it a few times you might have already encountered some of these issues.
After you’ve watched this video until the end, you will be better prepared to tackle some of these common RV issues on your own and quite possibly save hundreds of dollars by not having to call an RV tech.
00:00 Intro
00:28 Dead Battery
02:13 Leaky Roof
03:23 Clogged Toilet
05:36 No Hot Water
07:34 AC Not Cooling
09:58 Fridge Not Cooling
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Hey RV folks!!
Have a pre trip check list and a shutdown check list. Eliminates forgetting THINGS. 💯👍🇺🇸
A few times over the years I have found moisture or a puddle inside the rv cabinet under the sink. Each time it was that the drain pipes had become loose. Each time it was a simple matter of hand tightening the plastic fitting. Don’t overtighten as you could crack the pipe. Now we check and retighten periodically.
Great tip, thanks for sharing
We went with a composting toilet years ago, so easy to use and maintain, no black tank issues and smells and environmentally friendly no wasting water. Before we installed the composting toilet, we found the only commercially available tank treatment to consistently work well was Happy Camper which was also cheaper to buy. We then went to the Geo method which was very effective and cost effective.
Saw a video of a guy that cleans tanks on rvs says additives are bad. If anything calgone and pinesol mixture lubes it, his main point is its a holding tank not a septic use lots of water and don't leave gray tank open
I saw the same guy. Have you followed his instructions and was his advice good?
I LOVED ths skits! I can't even decide which was my favorite! The Twilight bit and the spit take were great but the cat in the AC... LOVIN IT!!
Thanks for watching 😉
Another common issue with the a/c is freezing up in very hot climates. Sometimes the condensation will freeze and you will need to shut it off and let it melt.
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Great tips! A note on RV (and also gas grill) propane regulators: most of them are cheaply made and will "stick" closed very easily. As you mentioned, turning off and then on the propane gas supply will usually unstick the gas regulator.
I live in my class c RV and mostly dry camp on public lands. My main battery went dead while out in the middle of nowhere but luckily I had my solar panel cuz it charged up my battery and I was good to go!! Dead batteries are no fun.
Basic common-sense stuff, but still worth reviewing. Thanks for the tips. I had knee surgery four weeks ago and your video has prompted me to have the roof on our TT checked before we put the unit back into service for the summer. I would normally do this, but not this year. Good reminder.
I just watched this for the second time. The first time was last year when I first got my RV. I found that the reason my water heater didn't work was because Forest River installed it backward and what appeared to be the intake valve was actually a flush valve for de-winterizing the water heater. No amount of fiddling got it to work. The RV tech took it out completely, turned it around, and installed it correctly.
As for propane, although the dealer was supposed to fill the propane tanks, they were delivered empty. They did rebate us the cost, however, that was (I'm guessing) because they felt guilty for not doing a pre-delivery inspection and sending us an RV with many items cracked, dysfunctional, and literally falling off the ceiling and walls.
Yes, we did find puddles but that was because the connection to the Fisher and Paykel dishwasher was loose and soaking the area under the kitchen sink. That was an easy fix as the connection just had to be secured. The dishwasher is one of the best "glamping" additions to this RV and is even ahead of the Splindide Combo washer and dryer (which, so far, does not leak.)
The HV/AC with a heat pump never worked and had to be replaced with a new unit. I asked about changing the filters (the ceiling on this RV is about 9' high) and he said "The more people and animals you have living in the RV, the more often you need to unscrew the panel, take out the filter, wash it and replace it." I had to laugh because I am 5'2" and wouldn't climb on a ladder if my life depended on it.
The toilet sensor shows 2/3 full even after it's just been emptied and I have been using the black tank treatment you suggest attempting to make it right.
The GFCI kept popping. That was because Forest River cut through the connecting wires when they stripped them. Any little jiggle would trip it and although we kept resetting it eventually the wires shorted out and the power wouldn't turn on. So the battery went dead and the 12-volt fridge dependent on the battery quit working. But since no one was here full-time (can't live in an RV with no air conditioning) we didn't realize it until the freezer contents had defrosted. The wires were cut and spliced and the power to the batteries charged them and we got the fridge working. But we also had to pull the fuse and replace it to get the fridge to reset.
You have no idea what a mess (some) of the new RVs are when they come off the factory floor. This 2024 FR Cedar Creek Cottage 40CFK2 has been repaired to within an inch of her life. It's a shame that such a beautiful RV should have been so ineptly built. I love her, anyway.
We’re newbies in the RV world. Good stuff! Thanks for sharing ❤
Came across your vids today and enjoyed. Thank you for sharing.
We do a lot of boon docking in remote areas with our Chaparral 370FL. Rarely at full hook ups.
Another check for a hot water problem is to make sure you're outside shower taps are closed. We have had this issue. Our outside shower wand has a shut off and was closed but both taps were open causing a cross flow which gave us only warm water in the RV. If it's heating off propane (as with any propane appliance not firing) it's possible the valve on the propane tank was opened too quick. Propane tanks have excess flow valves.
Another nasty issue is the black tank pyramid. We are fortunate (or are we...haha) to have a direct drop from toilet to tank to see whats going on. Have had the pyramid a few times when I didn't put enough water in the tank before using, when all the grandkids stay with us and inexperienced guests used our bathroom. It usually takes a stir with a stick and lots of water to get back in business (dealing with the stick after is another issue). Black tanks are a holding tank not a septic system. They need lots of water. For us only going out for a 3 - 4 days at a time chemicals are a waste of money. Lots of water when using and a good flush into and up into the tank (using a shut off valve with hose fitting) when dumping has worked for us. Doing this my level gauge has always showed 0 after (not that we need a gauge).
Our A/C did not work well from the factory. I found the intake and exhaust air flow dam was non existent inside the unit and air flow leakage at 90% of the hose connections to vents and wide open to the nose cone.
Your facial expression when he pulled out, the wrench was hilarious!
Missed a most major preventative - ALWAYS test your stuff before you go! Its pretty easy to make sure your winterization shut-offs are on, that the water heater heats (btw, don't heat an empty water heater), your furnace and/or A/C is working and your fridge cools. it may not be in time to fix some of that stuff, but its certainly in time to buy some last-minute-things to tide you over (e.g., a camping shower bag to provide hot water for showers, a block of dry ice for your fridge/freezer, a backup heater).
Topping off your battery is a good idea - but a good pre-trip thing to do is load test the battery before you go. Many a near-dead battery will hold a charge after charging, but have zero capacity when called on. I charge my batteries, but I also put them through a few long desulfating cycle on my charger to help keep them well conditioned.
Great content. I LUV the information you bring with the humor. Keep it coming.
Thanks for watching
Thank you so much for sharing your tips. We are new, with absolutely no experience. So glad I found your channel. Great info. Especially loved the Ikea ideas. Spent a day there grabbing some of your suggestions. The Parkla is a perfect hack!
Awesome! Thanks for watching
I resemble many of these! Got up one morning before my wife, made the coffee - ZAP! Power goes out in coach! Said to self, maybe a fuse or circuit breaker, looked in all pertinent electrical closets, nothing tripped, nothing blown. Swell, now what do I do? Looked through 1,000 pages of owner's manual, nothing specific. Called telephone number for "customer service" for our brand of coach, "well, it could be this or it could be that". Yeah, thanks! Wife finally gets up, calls our RV dealer and spoke with service tech: "Oh, I know exactly what it is, go into your left forward storage bay, there is an electrical box on the ceiling, on the bottom is a reset switch - press and hold the switch for 10 seconds". So, I go to that storage bay - oh, it's full, have to unload it. Crawl on back into bay, find box, press and hold switch, VOILA! problem fixed! Store that one away in my sieve brain memory cells!
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Good story telling! Do you have a channel?
Dog face and eyes are hysterical watching the two of you while filming. ❤
I thought I was the only one to use the term Butt-Load 😂
I guess there are two of us 😉
I say that a lot too😂
The butt is an obsolete English measure of liquid volume equalling two hogsheads, being between 450 and 1,060 litres (99 and 233 imp gal; 120 and 280 US gal) by various definitions.
I’ve heard it and used it all my life. Is it really that rare? We started as children when we weren’t allowed to say “s***load”.
I know many people, including me who say it
The air conditioner part cracked me up. It was like watching Mary Poppins😎🤣🤣🤣💝 Love your videos! They’re so informative and fun💝
Thanks for watching
Warm milk is karma for drinking from the jug. Lol
Lol, that’s what I said (Charity). 😂
You are always entertaining, and helpful. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
Great Tips! Thanks!!!!
Thanks for watching
The voiceover of Alaska is wonderful and funny.
Is your toilet paper roll on the roller backward!?😂😂 I love your videos!
Thank you 💖
😂 I was waiting for one of your kids to go down that AC...LOL!
OMgoodness that would
Have been hilarious!
Excellent video I'm learning so much you guys are so funny
Thanks so much
Informative and hilarious! 😆You guys got it all. The dog and cat forgive you.
3:37 _“The #3 most common problem that most people have with RVs is a clogged toilet.”_
I woulda thought that would be #2! 😆😂🤣
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Hey, that was some great tips 👍
Thanks for watching
Great video. Thank you. 😅
Thanks for watching
Hey Mrs Glamper. I hope y’all are doing well.
Would love to see you do a video on dealing with severe weather, which I'm sure you have had to deal with several times
Thanks for the suggestion
We are weekend warriors and our 1st trip EVER in our travel trailer was during a freak snow storm. It was horrible! Made a 1.5 hr drive home into a 3hr white knuckled drive.
Great info! What would drippy condensation all over the outside of AC inside of RV be caused by?
High humidity levels. Maybe consider a dehumidifier
Best ideas for precipitation building up in the rv?? I thought if using a dehumidifier. Thoughts
Have a video on this very topic! ua-cam.com/video/7JnuWJ0rwb0/v-deo.htmlsi=3zpUjdQGoppa7MG_
I use a dehumidifier also, for winter window condensation.
Thanks, as always for great info and usually a laugh or two! BTW the word is boatload. Makes sense, right?
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@@GratefulGlamper I mean, what is the other word exactly? Ha ha ha! 😂
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LOL, it's how I've heard it said in the last few (20) years.
The mild vulgarity adds to the sense an element of impending disaster!
Great tips on the RV refrigerator 1 thing you may have missed on propane blow out the exhaust vent . I have had to do it 3 times . If you're refrigerator won't light and you here a small bomb or squeak try it
I love All your videos!! But I keep seeing everyone recommending toilet tank tabs "they are supposed to break down waste" this is absolutely incorrect!! They make this product just for you to spend money! It turns your black HOLDING tank into a septic tank.. tab's are designed to make a slurry of the yuck and this causes All your sensors to stop working!!
You absolutely DO NOT NEED THOSE TABS!.. WATER WATER WATER! is your best friend I have used a few tbs pine Sol for over 30+ years and water just recently I started adding a little "Calgon" it makes water more slippery and My tanks both black and gray have never clogged and they do not ever smell!!
Save money and save your tanks stop using those tank tabs.. Blessing to you and your family ❤️
Thanks for the comment and for watching
Love the dog voice over!
Thanks!
What does the solar panel on your roof AC unit do?
Not much, it just trickle charges the battery. I’m hoping to get some real panels soon. -Ben
Alaska: "Greenie!"
LOL if that's not an endorsement, I don't know what is. LOL
I wish they’d send us some greenies - those things aren’t cheap!
It’s funny, we have the RV Hacks book, lol
You two are hilarious
Thank you!
Love you tips guys!! Keep them coming. Please let me help you out about the term "Hot Water Heater" as you call them. I worked in the engineering field most of my life and I was chewed out by my boss when I called it this. They are not Hot Water Heaters he would say. They do not heat Hot Water. They are water heaters that make cold water into Hot Water. LOL!!
LOL, touché !
I never put TP down my black tank. It goes into the waste basket. I've never had a problem
with a clogged tank yet.
We have black tank and now our gray tank reading full and 1/3 full respectfully after we dump. We have an outside kitchen tied in with our inside kitchen sink gray tank and our bathroom shower and and bathroom sink on another gray tank. Our camping weekend was pretty awful because we were always dumping our tanks with our portable sewer tank and with our black tank saying full all the time did not make it easy even though it came out clear every time. So have you used the Unique Senor Cleaner? I'm going to use it very soon while I'm recovering from surgery and we won't be camping for 30 days.
My sensors don't work but I don't stress over it since my toilet will burp when it's full and I empty it and do a tank flush afterward.
@@Tsch6373 good idea!! We are done camping for the season and even though our black tank doesn't read zero. We will either flush at our house or leave it. And winterize anyway.
The cat was the culprit 🤣
What to do when you had a clogged toilet and the water manage to go into the vents ?
Number 3 shoulda been number 2 😂😂😂
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Hello! We are looking at buying a travel trailer in the next month or so. We keep reading that MOST campgrounds have limits on the length of RV/Trailers/etc between 27-35 ft from bumper to hitch... however, most of the newer model travel trailers we are looking at are longer than 35 feet. Has this been a problem for anyone? Or can you tell me how we should navigate this? The trailer we want has a separate bunk room and it's roughly 36 feet and 4 inches... but apparently we can't use it in many parks?! Thanks for your help and all you do!
We have a 40 foot RV and length is rarely an issue when it comes to booking campgrounds
Buy the rv that you want and can tow.. You will find many good sites.
Look at areas you really want to go to. We did see restrictions in parts of Florida, Washington DC, Alabama & Georgia this past winter. We bought a Grand Design MLE 22 : so; 25’ overall and have gotten in everywhere we wanted. Also, most National parks have a 28’ overall limit. So a little research can go a long way.
Hi, guys.
Curious question: Is your RV life year-round, or just after your children finish the school year?
As always, terrific video & tips🤗👍
We RV year round but on a more extended basis during our kids schools breaks
@@GratefulGlamper So you’re not out on the road full time right?
My electrical system wasn't working. I checked the post and turned it back on. Then, I lay down on the floor to check the fuses and breaker. I went out and checked the post, and it was off again. So I turned it back on and went back in RV to see the person packing up their site, turning off my power.
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What about refrigerators that freeze the food?
Theres no "link above here" 😮
Im watching on my phone, is there a setting?
You should be able to jump or charge with the generator as well.
The 😺!!!! Ha😻😻😹😹😹
Best tip is to be able to repair your engine, and home side of everything.
ROFLMAO, repair the engine. That wou keep most of at home!
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It 3:36 3:36
Simular to an Ice freezer I suppose.
Dead battery, LOL. Yeah, I went to bed exhausted with the vehicle lights on (not the lights at the awning, the headlights). The next morning the battery was dead, my campground neighbors said they were annoyed I left my lights on all night. I was like, WHAT??? You knew??? Why didn't you come over and knock, I accidentally left them on. They then were embarrassed and said, yeah, it was weird you were leaving them on all night, we should have knocked...
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Now that you've had your Fridge compressor coversion, how do you like it? Working well?
It’s been working great, we’re very glad we made that upgrade
@@GratefulGlamper Love it when something we pay for actually works! I will for sure keep it in mind.
Thanks for taking thie thime.
It’s a water heater, hot water doesn’t need to be heated. Switching a top hat with an AC unit is a nice twist on a magic trick
Braiding will Florida detail here at the
Slight issue with your numbering, shouldn’t toilet clogs be number 2, instead of 3?
God Bless 💕💕💕
Thank you! 💙
Where’s the link for water links
How do you keep sewer flies at bay?
I just want to throw this out there... If you use pods, do a test as I did... I put a pod in my commode and let sit for 30 mins. Then when I went to release the cleanser into the black tank, the plastic sealed around my toilet and didn't break or come loose until I had over a half of bowel of water pressure break it. Should we take the plastic off the pod or leave it? Will it end up causing a clogged toilet also?
I don't use pods for this reason. I only use Happy Camper in my black tank followed by 3 gallons of water. There are no perfumes and absolutely no odor or clogs. It comes in a powder and each jar contains a scoop. Simply follow the instructions on the container, it'll tell you how much to use. One scoop treats a 40 gallon tank.
@@Tsch6373this sounds like very good advice!
FYI your roll of toilet paper in the back ground is on backwards
Who gets in the shower and then turns the water on. You turn it on and stick your hand in to check temperature before you step inside. DUH.
A butt load is an actual size just like barrel load. Stems back to the days of wooden sailing vessels.
A butt is a measure of wine cask just like an assload, a tun, pint, flask,
Good to know!
Dawn antibacterial is cheaper, benn using for 3 yrs
No smells. EVER. just make sure it's antibacterial.
I havent watch yet but get a tankless water heater because the little ones dont do crap
What about ants???!!! We’re new to camping and we have been overrun with ants!!!
We had that issue in this video - we talk about what we did: ua-cam.com/video/csMj0JzBy9k/v-deo.html
Lol!! Seriously you have to fix that toilet paper roll!! Not sanitary. Backwards.😀.you do mean water heater! Correct? No reason to heat hot water twice!! Lol
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So #3 is actually #2? 😉
Yep! 🤣💩
Alaska is a big Schweetie, he wouldn't do that.
Alaska is a very good dog 🐶
I think people look on fuses should be different. Go from, "It's just a fuse. Pop a new one in." To, "Why did this safety device activate?"
Good point
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Can I add that you want to make sure that your "fix" doesn't void your warranty?
Our RV is nearly 20 years old - the warranty is long since expired 😉
Hmmm... Thought I was the only person who has issues with cats in the AC..
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Do they call you freckles?
No, that is not a nickname anyone has ever given to me. Thanks for watching.
This is just a pet peeve of mine but if you have hot water, you don't need a hot water heater. A water heater makes hot water, a hot water heater makes steam (which you definitely don't want in a shower). I suppose I shouldn't expect someone who hangs their TP backwards to know any better 🤣. In all seriousness - yet another great video.
Lol, thanks for watching
Good catch! Pet peeve of mine on the TP! Informative video, none the less!
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Cornholio strikes again.
Lol, I thought I was the only one that noticed the TP backwards😅
AAAAA HES READING TWILIGHT
A buttload is a legitimate quantity: a butt is a cask. So a buttload is theoretically measured in liters. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.
(*126 gallons. That IS a lot....)
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Bahahaha 😂
The video was fine until number three, the plugged toilet. Imagine my horror when I saw your toilet paper roll hanging backwards. I can no longer take you seriously.
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You'd go nuts in my TT, my tp is mounted vertically!
Do they have an idiots guide to RVing ?
What kills me is that people out there living the RV life...
DONT HAVE JOBS ! And still don't take the time they have available in each day to do maintenance on their rigs.
It's BOAT LOAD not butt load SMH
Why would a person want to call their dog Alaska I lived up there for 28 years how depressing
Why do pod cast people think they are comedian's. Come on cut it out...........
Ben need acting lessons badly
That guy seems way too young to lose his hair.
keep ur day jobs ur not actors
Why does your face look like that?
Like what?
you guys trying to be actors is not working . grow up and just tell us the info that you are offering , I could only stand 52 seconds of your video!
Thanks for the feedback
RV life, the greatest destroyer of wealth, over priced, cheaply made and very expensive to maintain.
and experience over things....? isnt an RV and all of the toys a thing?
I bet dollars to donuts that I can travel 1st class cheaper against the capital outlay and monthly expense that you do,
and at the end of the day, I just walk away from it or hand it in.
RV life is for people who cant do the math, oh yeah, dealing with your own human waste, now that sounds like fun?
no not really
Unless…you do it like we do. Our RV is 20 years old (we bought it 5 years ago) and depreciation is pretty much bottomed out - oh and we paid cash for it so zero payments