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Do they make a full roof pop-up cover
I plan on keeping my RV at home but I will not be permitted to put up another structure to store it. To keep the elements at least off the roof do they make some type of roof mount pop up roof on top of the RV like an umbrella type of item. I will be using my coach twice a week all year long and I don’t want to use one of those giant Breathable covers too much of a headache on and off every day.
I live in New Jersey and we do get a few heavy snow falls over 8 inches each year. I assume there’s no pop-up roof cover that can handle the snow. Perhaps I can just remove the pop up cover whenever there’s a snow forecast predicted
I plan on buying a 15–18 year Old Prevost none slide preferably one that’s been stored indoors
Therefore hopefully the roof is in pretty good condition
Does this type of roof pop-up system mounted on the top of the RV even exist????
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ADMIN: Please delete this redundant post. TIA!
Dr. Gary: If you end up with a conventional, stick ‘n staples plastic RV/motorhome you definitely want to keep that inside … and hidden from view.
But a Prevost luxury motorcoach is different. When your local community see your Prevost they will probably ask you to park it out in front of your house! The Prevost shells which the converters start with are built to be used a million miles running coast to coast as a seated coach in Canada. Its a commercial chassis, with commercial design and engineering. Many Prevosts in commercial service rarely are inside.
I’d love to be able to keep our coach inside when we’re not using it, but our local municipality limits me to a 1000sf detached “accessory building” which I built for the race shop. I did put a concrete pad next to the race shop with plenty of gravel and a vapor barrier underneath the concrete along with twin 50amp RV plugs, fresh water, and dump station. But in essence the coach sits outside … as you can see from the pictures.
Prior to our purchase the coach in 2014 it likely spent most of its life inside the owner’s truck barn for his beer distributorship in SW Michigan or inside his large toy box near his vacation home in Tennessee.
In the time we’ve owned the coach, we’ve experience only two leaks in the roof. They both occurred at the same tie while we were at East Tennessee Luxury Coach for a Prevost Community maintenance seminar during a torrential rain storm, they were both on opposite sides of the coach in the exact same distance from the front. Jeff Rowe determined they were from two vents that needed some fresh sealing up. Typically when we have Jeff do service on the coach he is up on the roof doing a thorough inspection and addresses any of the old sealant that needs it. Last fall I had a guy clean the roof and he said that the clearcoat was coming off before he started to clean it and now I’m investigating repainting the roof (probably with an insulating paint) and applying to clear coat.
If you can’t store the coach indoors, I wouldn’t worry too much about storing it outside. I wouldn’t cover it nor would I sheath it. Snow doesn’t bother me. We keep two or three 1000 watt cube heaters running inside the coach during the cold months and have found that between the heat from the inside of the coach and the sun after a snow storm that the snow melts and runs off the side of the coach.
In winter I keep the fresh water tank filled, single holding tank empty, monitor the temp in the water bay, and if temps will drop much below 30*F I turn the water heater on. I’ve found that the water heater throws off enough heat to keep the water bay (and 200 gallons of fresh water in the tank) easily in the 40’s. At about 5 to 10*F I will turn on the 1000 watt heat gun Liberty installed in the water bay, and if it gets really cold out (below zero for any length of time I’ll fire up the Webasto diesel boiler which heats the inside of the coach, the water heater, and the water bay.
Good luck with your search.
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