Getting to 9º tonight. Since I have single pane windows did the redneck thing and treated the windows. Pretty sure MCD won't approve.
Seems to work will report back in the morning.
see ya
ken
Hey watch out now! Nutten wrong with REDNECK engineering y'all. 🤪😎🍺. Course us rednecks are not going to be where it's anywhere near 9 degrees. Don't freeze.
You do know that since you have a coach you CAN go south to warmer climes.
You do what you can. Good stopgap until you can go south.
On a serious note, used the 3M film while at barnes hospital.. worked great. Hard to get the upper stuck to the frame but way less draft... comes off easy..
Ken, you might want to put some towels along the base of the windshield to absorb the moisture condensation before it gets down into the plywood that holds the front cap in place.
At least the blue tape will come off easy and not leave anything behind. Waiting to hear how the night went
Put the towels at the base of my windshield one night to catch condensation. Got down to -4 and the towel was frozen to the glass. No harm, no foul. It did catch the condensation once it melted.
Larry
Our old GV has the "drapes" that draw closed up front around the windshield area. When we expect temps around 40 degrees or below, I put a small electric heater up on the dash and run it all night. Keeping the windshield glass slightly warm seems to almost totally prevent troublesome condensation on the inside, and also keeps the outside of the glass pretty clear.
Of course, this might not be feasible if dry camping...depending on how much battery capacity you have.
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There have been quite a few posts about the front cap on GVs separating from the plywood under the dash and causing major problems like the windshields coming out due to the front cap changing shape when the glue or plywood lets go.
Prevention beats the daylights out of costly repairs
Speaking of redneck fixes, this is ideal when boondocking- low energy draw & smells good when working...
Ken.
I'm not seeing any "treatment" unless it's simply the blue tape on on the shades holding them closer to the window. And... it doesn't look like you have side valences, I would have thought your vintage of coach did.
There must be some good insulating type sheeting out there. We use kind of a foamcore type cover for the front window. No condensation....,
Our 86 GV has the original heavy velvet ( like) curtains that closes off the living room from the drivers cockpit area... does not allow the furnace heat to escape thru the front windshield and creates a blackout at night...
Well it only got to 12º last night. The window "treatment" seemed to help. Pretty subjective. The heaters were off and on all night as usual.
Best solution would be to head south. That's sort of what we did at the start of the month. Headed to Albuquerque from Denver. Obviously not quite far enough south. Was pleasant enough when we got here. 40s & 50s with overnight just below freezing. Then this stupid front came through. We signed up for a month ($390 a month Denver was $950!) and we are due to leave on the 9th heading to Q.
We choose BurKe since we don't know anyone here and we were socialed out from our month in Denver. We lived in Denver for 20 years and still have lot'o friends there. Socializing is so much work! :) JK we loved it but it did wear us out.
I used 3M plastic in my 1st coach that I used for Skiing in the winter and it worked great. Sealed off the cold air off the window and the air leaks. I tried on Big Agnes but she wasn't having it. I didn't want to tape directly to the wood paneling so tried to just use the metal frame. The rounded corners were a pain and when I tried to shrink the plastic with a hair dryer it pulled away. :(
We haven't had much of an issue with moisture. It's pretty dry here usually. During the day and when cooking or showering we turn the vent fan on which keeps the moisture down. I do like your trick Chuck. If I start seeing any moisture will try it.
100% saved my butt many many times!
see ya
ken
We have two of these, fore and aft, don't worry about the windows, just put on our 'PNW" blankets and sleep well. I've always thought the Aqua-Hot system would be quiet, but parked next to Bigdog, it is SURE noisy outside!!
I here I thought hearing is lost as you get older.. not this crowd :)
Ken, For freezing temps, we cut Reflectix to fit each window, marked each for future use.
I think you should be quite proud of your ingenuity.
Also cut Reflectix to fit inside each plumbing bay door, these are all much larger than bay opening and folded inward to help seal in the heat from 200 watt heaters. Remote thermometers report bay temps without opening bay doors.
We don't count on furnace heat ducts to keep every corner of water bays warm. I would also not want to count on AquaHot heat exchangers either.
We open all cupboard doors on the "wet" side of the coach when it gets really cold. (the wet side being the side where the water lines run.)