The weatherman said that this was it; no more warm weather after today. So I headed over to the Home Depot, got some fiberglass insulation, face masks, duct tape, and a new length of heat tape, came home, and commenced to winterizing. I put down a tarp under the rig, climbed underneath, and trimmed the [...]
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Easy. Everything starts to break. First it’s little stuff, odd bits of hardware and minor leaks. Then the problems get bigger and you’re installing a new toilet. Finally, the mechanical decay takes a turn for the worse, and next thing you know, you’re shelling out $1800 to replace the refrigerator. Argh! $2000 spent in just [...]
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Instead of Ms. Fixit, I’m Ms. Breakit. Yesterday I turned off the water in hopes of resolving the fresh water leaks around the toilet. Well, I took the whole, nasty, stinky mess apart and discovered that the water valve and vacuum breaker are leaking. More like spewing, really. Each time I flush, water shoots out [...]
We traveled about seven hours today from Evergreen to New Orleans, stopping along the way for fuel in Alabama and Mississipi. The trip was mostly uneventful except for the last few miles of I10 coming into New Orleans. It was like a washboard! Rattled several things loose inside the RV and rattled our nerves. Like [...]
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The Shady RV Dealership sent out a tech they contract to do work for them yesterday so he could fix the holes they made in our RV last August. You remember the holes…the ones that caused the massive electrical short that cost us about $700 to fix. Rob sealed up the holes posthaste, and we [...]
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We thought the Saga of the Awning was over, but it’s not. Turns out the RV dealership replaced the cheapo awning they initially tried to pawn off on us with HALF a new Dometic awning. They bought new fabric and hardware and strung it all up on our old roller, all without telling us! Problem [...]
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Eagle RV finally came and installed the correct awning, a Dometic. It took nearly two months to get it done, and they still managed to cheat us (or the insurance company, depending on how you look at it). First they buy the cheaper and smaller awning and pocket the rest of the insurance money, making [...]
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About a month or so ago, the igniter on our stovetop stopped working. Rather than bother to try to figure out what was wrong with it, we just started using a lighter to get the burners going. Today I finally decided to take a moment, pull up the rangetop, and try to figure out what [...]
The RV repairman that the GEICO adjuster contacted won’t be coming out to fix our awning. Lex was trying to call and touch base to find out when we could expect him when she got his voice mail which explained that he wouldn’t be taking calls because he may well have H1N1, the swine flu. [...]
