RV Repairs

As I was going to the store yesterday, I passed a site where there were two vans parked and about 5 men who were replacing a motor home windshield. The vans were plastered with advertising for their window repair business (Glass Commander) which included all kinds of windows for businesses, homes and RV's. I stopped and talked to the "lead" person in the group about repairing a couple of our windows in the RV. He said he would stop by our site and take a look at them. Well, it was a couple hours later when he finally made it over to our RV and we talked about replacing/repairing a couple of our windows that have lost their seal. We have thermo-pane, or dual pane windows, and two of them are in pretty bad shape as far as being crystal clear. The main one, the rear window, is the largest and worst of the two. His estimate for repairing the windows was out of sight so we will probably live with them for awhile.

Our RV is getting to the age (10 years) where these problems will begin to occur. There are other areas of the RV that need attention and that is one of the main reasons why we are looking for a home where we can park the RV outside so that it is convenient for performing these repairs. The repairs list is growing  and that will be the only way we will get them done. Fixing these problems at the resort is not a consideration for several reasons. The main one is that the RV needs to be emptied of much of the contents to effectively have access to the areas where we need to perform the repairs. The windows issue is another reason - we cannot go for any length of time without the windows as long as we are living in the rig. The option of taking the RV to the dealer and leaving it for the repairs is not a good one. The expense would be prohibitive and would have to be performed all at once.

This RV has, basically, been our main home for almost ten years and is getting tired and showing signs that it needs some major work. All homes get that way over time and this is no exception. There is a "right" solution for us somewhere...