Re: Slide Toppers
Reply #19 –
I know this topic has died for a little but I have gotten a new to me coach that does not have awning over the slideouts, I have a 5th wheel that I keep at the lake and it has awning on the sliders. When it rains and we get ready to leave and pull the slides in we have to go slow in order for the water to drain off the slide since it puddles on the awning. As you pull in the awning you can see the leaves that were sitting on the awing fall off.
Since this is my first coach that has slides and no awnings I have not figured out if I want to spend the 6 coach bucks for awning on the slides. We stayed at the Alamo KOA over Thanksgiving and were parked under a tree that was dropping acorns the whole time we were there. When we were getting ready to leave I pulled out ladder and removed the 10,000 acorns that were sitting on the slides before I ran them in. I read the manual and it says if it is raining to tilt the RV to the side to let the water run of that side before running the sliders in on that side. After reading the above posts I was thinking of making a duster that has a 90 on it so I can run it along the top of the slideout to remove all of the leaves or acorns before pulling slides in.
For the ones without slider awnings do you worry about what is on top before your retract the sliders?