How to Keep Your RV Cool in Summer | 15 Tips to Cool Your RV in Hot Weather
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- ℹ️ How to keep your RV cool in summer, 15 tips to cool you RV in hot weather and improve your RV experience were created to help you beat the RV summer heat. If you're going to RV in summer, or RV in extreme heat, then you are looking for tricks to cool RV. Don't let the summer heat ruin your summer RV plans, take steps to prepare for hot weather camping.
These 15 tips range from simple RV window covering ideas (Reflectix insulation) and how to park RV, to how to keep RV refrigerator cold with RV fridge fans, to more in-depth ones like how to improve RV Airflow, the best RV Soft Start so you can run your RV AC on a Generator or 30-amp, and more. We also show you how to save money while you do it!
RVing in the summer can be fantastic unless you're unprepared for the heat.
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0:53 15 Tips to Beat RV Heat, Throw Some Shade
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Great tips, guys. Thank you for sharing. Peace and Safe Travels.
Keep these in mind when you get your RV and decide to go photograph the Southwest in the summer!
Pro tip for the skylight above the shower instead of dealing with your reflectix constantly falling bc the humidity ruins the adhesive take off the internal skylight cover and put the reflectix in there and put the cover back on. Made a world of difference for me
Good idea!!
A better tip would be to keep more food/drinks in your fridge because more cold mass will cause the fridge to work less once everything is cooled.
That is a good tip as well
Great info. Reflectix is the bomb! We found that our upper cabinets were radiating a lot of heat, so we lined them with reflectix. Made a Hugh difference.
Love this idea! We’re in 109 degree temps right now and those spaces are wicked warm. We may doing more Reflectix work. Thank you! -Chris & Suzannah
Sky light!!!! Why the heck didn’t I think of that. Thx Guys
They’re sneaky hot. Ha ha
Great advice. We are in Sequoia NP right now and it is 103 😳. We do allot of these already.
We’re in Vegas and it’s 109 today. These things have been helping out a to. Stay cool out there and thank you for the support!! -Chris & Suzannah
Excellent tips! These will definitely help. I'd never thought of using freezer packs and fans in the fridge. Something we will definitely do once we get our camper. Thanks for sharing!
So glad we could help!!! RV fridges really can struggle so keep an eye on them. Hank you for watching!
Great tips for keeping a rig cool. We'd love to have you join our Travel Chick Chat - Mondays at 9pm EST.
Thank you!! We’ll try to hop on tonight.
Great tips! We have to get the Reflectix and the Soft start.. we so need to do both in our RV... the cold shower was the best 😂 .. Chasing RV Sunshine ☀️ Joel, Deb & 🐕 Maya
The reflectix is so cheap for what it does and the SoftStartRV is such an awesome product. I don’t have to take as many cold showers. 😂😂😂 -Chris
Great ideas all around. My favorite is the refrigerator fans....who would've thought?! Thanks again!!!👍🏽👍🏽
The only problem with the fans is that they go through batteries pretty quick…but it’s worth it for the difference they make.
@@HintonTheTrail Good to know.
Thanks again.😎
Throw that shade 😆🙌🏼
You know it!!!
Great suggestions. Our favorite way to stay cool is stay away from hot places! It’s not working so well for us though. We’ve been in the 90s in Oregon. 🥵 We might have to try some of your tips. 🙏
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Hot temps are just about everywhere right now and it’s only June. How far north are you heading. We’ll be in the Pacific Northwest in July. Stay cool!!
We’ve learned a lot over 2+ years of full time RVing, and a lot of it has been about staying cool in hot temps. We love RV life but the battle with heat can be rough. What tips do you have for staying cool?
Thanks for all the info! Never thought about keeping fridge cooker, I put reflectix up above the my fridge ( on outside of fridge) because of the heat from fridge. Will that mess up my fridge?
Everything I’ve seen says yes you can insulate the sides and top of the fridge. Just make sure you’re not blocking the vent.
Best tip I’ve done is get a water sprinkler and hook it up during hot periods to keep the outside of camper cooled off
Good info!
All great ideas. Hey, new subscriber here, came across you on Camping CZcams Community Support on Facebook.
Thank you! We love your channel name, really sums up trying to love your life to the fullest! Thank you for watching and taking the time to comment. -Chris & Suzannah
I tinted my windows and upgraded my ac to. 13,000 btu unit but were still cooking when its over 100
It's a challenge keeping RV cool, especially with some of the heat waves hitting the U.S. this year. Have you done the reflectix in the windows?
Why does she blink so quickly 😂 I blink like once every 5 to 10 seconds she blinks every second 🤣
I’m very bright so it’s hard to look at me without blinking.
What kind of person leaves a comment like this? Genuinely think about how rude this is.
Ya Stupid,,,GO AWAY@@rswfire
The problem with the soft start and the rv air flow, is that they are too expensive for what you get. The airflow is a piece of Styrofoam for $200 (you'll need two of those: one for each air conditioner) REDICULOUS! And the soft start is almost just a capacitor that will run you almost as much as the air conditioner itself. (Again, you will need two of them).
We've yet to meet anyone that has either one of these products who feel it was a ridiculous expense. Yep, you'll need an RV Airflow in each A/C that is "racetracked" to get the benefits, but you can put it in just one if you want. If you want to be able to run your a/c or a/c's on a generator, 30-amp, a residential 15-amp, or on a inverter/battery setup, you'll need a soft start. Buying another air conditioner won't solve the issue of not being able to start your current a/c's. Do you pay for these things. Yep. But you get what you pay for. We've used each of them for over a year and a half of full time rving, spent over 3-months in 100+ degree heat, boondocked in 80+ degree heat for 4 weeks, moochdocked (with the ability to run our a/c) for a week, and all because of these products. If they're not for you that's okay. RV the way you want. If you want better cooling capabilities and the ability to start and run your air conditioners in conditions you couldn't before then we highly recommend them.
@@HintonTheTrail Well now you have. $200 for a piece of Styrofoam per air conditioner is a ridiculous expense.
We only needed one for our setup and the $189 that we paid increased the airflow throughout our RV by over 40%. The biggest change was in our sons bunkhouse which was a hotbox before we bought and installed the RV Airflow. The difference was night and day. So the piece of "foam" which is called EPS and is both temperature and water resistant and prevents mold and bacteria growth, has really impressed us. You can go down to the hardware store and get foam and tape and make your own. You just need to ensure you're getting the right foam or you could be blowing chemical agents and formaldehyde through your RV. There are some great videos out there to help you do so. The fact is, regardless of how you go about doing it, if you want the most out of your RV a/c's you'll need to do something. Buy an RV Airflow, or build your own (making sure you use the right products). Our goal is to help people make their travel and rv experience better.
@@HintonTheTrail right. Well you can do the exact same thing with $10 worth of foam and tape. Examples all over the CZcams. I did this upgrade years ago to both units, and I agree it helps, my frustration is charging $200 for it. Rediculous. Not going to change my mind about that.
@@rustusandroid I agree.