My first attempt as an ‘actor’! I was going to make an instructional video for something so simple as extending a Dometic RV awning. The first time is always a little tricky, but once you know how it isn’t too bad. I thought it would be helpful.
This actually ISN’T the video I would want to do, but I thought it would be fun to post it anyway, uncut, unedited, and about as ‘real’ as you can get. I can see my acting needs some improvement too.
Love to hear from all of you. Be gentle!
If you live in an RV, like Sheri and I, you are always very sensitive to space. The shower in our RV (we can’t speak for other folks) does have some molded areas for soap, shampoo, but they are small and really do not work. Also, if you think about it, the corners of the shower could be used for a little bit of toiletry storage.
What we have been using and has worked VERY WELL so far, is a little spring loaded shower caddy which we purchased from Bed Bath and Beyond. I’ll put a link to something similar from Amazon here : shower caddy
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We did actually do this twice. The faucet I picked at Home Depot was the CHEAPEST known to mankind. It lasted maybe 4 months.
We replaced it the next time with the SECOND cheapest faucet in Home Depot.
It pays to get just a little bit better than the cheapest.
M
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When you start reading up on RV’s, you’ll find there are lots of ‘experts’ who start talking about very sophisticated things like reverse osmosis water filtration systems, automatic satellite TV systems, and automatic rv leveling and rv stabilization systems and so forth.
I’m not one of those guys. I still wonder “Hey my rv faucet is broke – how do I fix it?”
And I say this because it did break! One thing we’re learning is that much of the equipment on an RV is unique to an RV. So when the faucet broke – like you can see in the picture below – after the RV dealer’s normal business hours we started to panic because we had to turn off ALL of our water.
I’m going to pass onto you what I’ve learned from this experience.
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We actually decided to remove the rv faucet rather than replace the valve on the cold water side. When we took it apart, there were some numbers on the side of the faucet, which you can see Sheri’s finger pointing out. I think if I knew much more about plumbing, that would have helped me, but in this case it didn’t help much.
The MOST IMPORTANT information was actually that the hot/cold valves were exactly 4 (four) inches apart. That turns out to be a kind-of, sort-of standard. Read on.
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Because of the 4 inch centers, I was able to locate, in Home Depot, a suitable replacement faucet for our rv. I took a chance (because I did not bring the broken faucet to Home Depot), that the new one had identical fittings underneath the sink (can you see the two plastic inlets with threading above).
And it did have identical fittings. The rest of the installation was pretty straightforward. I was able to hand tighten the fittings and they did not leak.
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