By Cheri Sicard
If you stored your RV for the winter, the time has come to bring it out of hiding and start prepping for the RV season to come. In the video above, The Wayward Waggs have tips to help you get ready and “camp like a champ!”
The Waggs took a few months off from traveling over the winter, too, but they are back and getting ready for this season.
Steps to prep for RV season
Here’s what the Waggs did to prepare for the upcoming RV season. If you have other suggestions, be sure to leave them in the comments, below.
#1 The basement: The Waggs began at the bottom. In other words, they cleaned out and organized their RV’s “basement” or pass-through storage. This was also a good opportunity to purge unneeded items. They also took the opportunity to carpet their basement floor, something you may or may not want to emulate.
#2 Clean the food storage locations: Next the Waggs organized and cleaned their pantry and food cabinets. They had a great tip for applying Reflectix to the inside back wall to protect from heat, as they found some cabinets getting hot when exposed to full sunlight on the outside wall.
#3 Clean the tanks: The Waggs brought in a friend to help clean out their RV’s tanks well.
#4 Wheel bearings: Again they enlisted help. Checking and packing your wheel bearings is important at the start of RV season.
#5 Inspect the roof: Repair and seal as necessary before heading out.
#6 Inspect the brakes: The time to discover problems is BEFORE you head out on the road.
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Wonder how many of us “snowbirds” are prepping our rigs for storage for the summer? We probably won’t take our rig out until August. I suspect some of my far south friends will also not be using their rigs for the summer.
We store our winter home close to where we use it. While in residence I do all the inspection and maintenance work. Before we leave it for the summer, we winterize it. Why? Sometimes there have been freezes before we return. — we have a 2nd smaller TT we use for migration and touring. It gets a similar treatment over the summer months.
While I appreciate the ranked importance, #4 (bearings) & #6 (brakes) can and should be done at the same time. The charge for checking the brakes is minimal as the wheels & brake drums are already pulled to inspect the seals and repack the bearings.
Thank you, Cheri! 🙂 I am working through this today ahead of tomorrow’s planned departure for a long weekend. This is the third day of going over and through things. Thank you for the admonition and examples! Safe travels!:-)
I hope you have a terrific trip Neal!
Thank you, Cheri! We tried, but, … more about that later, probably in one of Nanci’s columns. 🙂
Make that “possibly,” not “probably.” Happy Easter, Cheri! 🙂