Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Two-week review: Lights, Plumbing, Heating, Appliances


  •           A couple of days ago, the ring around the dinette faucet base worked loose and gave us a dynamic blast of water from ceiling to closet mirror and beyond. Repair was simple reassembly and tightening. We’ll be checking it periodically from now on.
  •           There are plenty of lights and they work great. We upgraded to the LED light package
  •           The water pump doesn’t really like our method of stingy water use and turning the pump on and off all the time. It would prefer owners who use water freely and leave the pump turned on between water uses. It doesn’t like to deal with small bursts of water. We're changing our ways.
  •           We deleted the range hood and added one light where the range hood normally goes. I especially like this light position because although there are lights at each end of the bed which are good for reading, I choose to use the extra light over the stove when I read at night and Great Husband is sleeping. It doesn’t shine in his face, and it is easy to reach around the wall by the stove and turn that extra light on and off without getting out of bed.
  •           We like the location of the thermostat because you can adjust it without getting out of bed.
  •           Oh, that Maxx fan! We love it! Open just one window in the area where you are sitting or sleeping for the most pleasing draw of fresh air.
  •           We’ve been mostly boondocking and haven’t yet used the microwave which we had installed. Right now it is a great bread box!
  •           The refrigerator is really easy to convert between electric and propane operation.
  •           The kitchen faucet drips a small bit during travel, and so far I’ve just punched a hole through the side of a paper cup and slid that onto the top of the faucet to catch the little bit of water. 
  •           Sometimes the water from our fresh water tank tastes of plastic, and sometimes it doesn’t. We haven’t figured out why.
  •           We wish we had added a 12-volt receptacle inside the camper so we could use the computer longer when we don’t have shore power.
  •           So far the limiting factor on boondocking seems to be water, either running out of water in the fresh-water tank or reaching full on one of the other tanks. Electricity and propane have not been constraints.

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