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Should I keep the RV at home
Should I keep the RV at home. I have 1.6 acres of land and my town permits RV parking if it is not visible from the street. Fortunately my lot was deep enough and I have several rows of trees that I could hide it from the street disability. I plan on using my Prevost 45 Foot RV for business I will be using it virtually every single week throughout the year
Based on my driving habits over the last two years I’m on the road at least twice a week visiting clients and my business is expanding from Maine down to Florida. In my general area there’s very few places in New Jersey for RV storage. Therefore keeping at home should work out well. ….. in the winter months I assume I’ll have to keep the Bays heated to prevent freeze up.
Am I on the right track should I keep the RV at home.???
Thanks Dr Gary
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My enjoyment went up significantly once I was able to keep it at home. If I’m working on a project, or loading for a trip I may go back and forth a dozen times throughout the day. Zero planning or commute required. It’s hard to put a price on that.
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This is the main reason we are selling our condo in central Orlando and building a house in the suburbs. It is a quality of life issue, not having to schlep stuff back and forth between condo and RV storage facility.
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THOROUGHLY ENJOY having our coach at home.
Prior storage was only 10 minutes away, and was a nice facility, yet storing it at home is, as was said above, priceless!
Simply learn how to protect it from freezing and cannot imagine you not also enjoying having it close to home.
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Having the coach at home seems to be treated as a convenience. I treat it as a necessity. If I had to travel to my coach I would not have one.
First and most important is if the coach is a few steps away from the house it is easy to monitor. Even if it is not stored indoors (another necessity in my opinion) it is easy to check on everything from its interior temperatures, to availability of power into the coach to maintain batteries.
At the beginning and end of every trip there is always a certain amount of loading and unloading and being able to carry stuff into and out of the bus from the house without first loading it in a car reduces the effort required. Having the bus near at hand it allows a pre and post trip inspection at a convenient time, not just after loading, when you are in a hurry to get going and prone to overlook something.
Having the coach at home protects it from people who do not respect other people’s property.
If minor repairs are needed, such as tightening a cabinet hinge or replacing a light bulb a coach at home allows doing simple stuff like that when it is convenient and you do not have to hop in the car to get it done.
But go further………Store the coach inside. The enemy of a lot of coaches is going to be Mother Nature. The sun is damaging. A hail storm can do enough damage to exceed the cost of a pole barn. Keeping a coach stored inside allows greater control of coach temps, both hot and cold. Being able to d a detailed pre-trip inspection inside a garage, out of the rain or snow is so much nicer.
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Excellent points above. I’ll add “out of sight, out of mind”.
Hard to imagine a coach could becme “out of mind” but we have all seen RVs, Boats, etc sitting and obviously neglected. Keep it home so no excuse to not pay attention and / or jump in & go somewhere.
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One huge plus for us is when we have those frequent power outages, we just grab the book we are reading and go to the bus. I start the generator which I connect to a pipe to take the exhaust outside. If I want to provide power to the house during a lengthy outage I am set up to provide the house with emergency power via the buddy plug in the electric bay. The 60 amps of buddy plug power will keep the house furnaces and refrigerators working.
Typically however we have gone to the coach, enjoyed the heat or A/C, were able to use the toilet and not worry about the well pump not working since the coach water tank is full so we can flush, shower, cook, etc.
It is far more than just an RV for travel when it is at the house.
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Jon:
I back my coach into my garage, had planned on pulling it in and leaving the garage door open if I ever needed to run the generator during a Community power outage. Interested in the details of how you are safely running the gen exhaust via a pipe to the outside.
If I would do this I could run my gen during power outages (usually during heavy rains) without having to turn the bus around.
Chuck
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My generator exhaust is sealed from the generator to the tip under the coach rear. I used flexible aluminum dryer hose with rubber reducers that go from the coach tip of about 3″ to the dryer tube of about 4 1/2 inches, then from the dryer tube to the dryer vent going through the wall of the garage. When I need to run the generator I just connect the end to the exhaust tip because I leave it connected at the wall vent.
The rubber reducers are available from plumbing supply houses and are used to connect pipes of different sizes.
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I think the rubber reducers Jon is referring to are Ferncos. There are a wide variety available.
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