| Author | Message | ||
| Mike Lester (Tin_woodman)
Registered Member Username: Tin_woodman Post Number: 18 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 63.230.32.66 Rating: N/A |
A sign has sprung up near the storage lot where I keep my bus offering both winterizing services and shrink-wrapping of RV's and boats. (Seriously!) Any of you guys and gals had your bus shrink wrapped for the winter? I am having a hard time imagining the benefits, but I'm quite possibly missing something... Mike Lester | ||
| Paul Lawry (Dreamscape)
Registered Member Username: Dreamscape Post Number: 577 Registered: 5-2007 Posted From: 75.218.84.21  Rating: N/A |
I would be concerned with one thing, it holding in moisture. I have had some experience with that in the concrete block industry, need to have holes for breathing. One more thing, if it's windy it could scuff the paint. Paul | ||
| john w. roan (Chessie4905)
Registered Member Username: Chessie4905 Post Number: 1656 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 71.58.71.157  Rating: N/A |
I noticed at a recent RV show that one company makes a TYVEK cover fitted to fit different rv's. Looked better than the house wrap. | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 289 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 75.178.92.43  Rating: N/A |
Are you guys actually serious? Nellie  | ||
| Don Evans (Doninwa)
Registered Member Username: Doninwa Post Number: 233 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 208.81.157.234  Rating: N/A |
Not that new. Have been able to get boats wrapped for years. About half the boats at our club that sat out last year were wrapped. If the wrap Co. knows what they are doing they will put vents in too. Remember, water vapor is lighter than air and must be vented or otherwise taken care of. If I was wrapping the bus I would want the roof vent tented and vented and left open. | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 984 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 74.162.93.90  Rating: N/A |
If I'm not mistaken, on Prevosts the wrap was provided by condom companies. | ||
| L James Jones Jr (Jamo)
Registered Member Username: Jamo Post Number: 92 Registered: 11-2007 Posted From: 74.79.238.160  Rating: N/A |
Guess that's why there ain't no "PostVosts", eh?? | ||
| FAST FRED (Fast_fred)
Registered Member Username: Fast_fred Post Number: 964 Registered: 10-2006 Posted From: 76.202.165.190  Rating: N/A |
A cover from one of the cover mfg lets the coach breathe and will frequently have a zippered door so you can enter. Shrink wrap is a throw away the real covers last for many years. A look in the FMCA mag will locate any number of cover mfg. FF | ||
| doug yes (Dougg)
Registered Member Username: Dougg Post Number: 100 Registered: 1-2007 Posted From: 67.142.161.32 Rating: N/A |
I've been missing my wife for a couple of days. Do you think she was still on the bus when we shrink wrapped it? Should I cut it open and throw some food in? | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 985 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 74.162.83.52 Rating: N/A |
I'd wait until the talking stops, but if the dishes are piling up, you gotta' do what you gotta' do. | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 517 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.237.52  Rating: N/A |
a cover with a landscape printed on it for boon docking in your city back yard that doesn't permit buses or rv parking ; but then why would one live or park in such a by-law banana place when they can drive elsewhere | ||
| Mike Lester (Tin_woodman)
Registered Member Username: Tin_woodman Post Number: 19 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 72.213.22.46 Rating: N/A |
Ok...all I need to know! Sounds like a PITA to me... Mike Lester | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 305 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 75.178.92.43 Rating: N/A |
Mike: What's a PITA? Dougg: If it's properly shrink wrapped, the food inside the bus should keep fine. Why risk breaking the seal? Maybe give her a jingle on the CB, see if she needs air or anything? Nellie | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 987 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 74.162.65.133 Rating: N/A |
PITA is my middle name! 10-4? | ||
| Buswarrior (Buswarrior)
Registered Member Username: Buswarrior Post Number: 1716 Registered: 12-2000 Posted From: 76.71.103.43  Rating: N/A |
P ain I n T he A ** PITA. Another acronym for the list. happy coaching! buswarrior | ||
| John MC9 (John_mc9)
Registered Member Username: John_mc9 Post Number: 989 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 74.162.65.133 Rating: N/A |
Acronyms http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/pita | ||
| Cullen Newsom (Cullennewsom)
Registered Member Username: Cullennewsom Post Number: 142 Registered: 2-2009 Posted From: 98.200.242.221  Rating: N/A |
I didn't know they made them that big.
All that money burning a hole in your pocket? | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 313 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 75.178.92.43 Rating: N/A |
Guys, I'm convinced. Why burn all this fuel traveling around chasing the sun? Why all that washing and scrubbing from being on the road! Just find a level spot and shrink wrap the old gal (guy, in my case). Outta stay clean and toasty warm. Nellie Wilson | ||
| ED Hackenbruch (Shadowman)
Registered Member Username: Shadowman Post Number: 171 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 75.216.15.12 Rating: N/A |
Good luck with that......i am still going to chase the sun myself. :>) | ||
| hojji firemaker (Hojjifiremaker)
Registered Member Username: Hojjifiremaker Post Number: 43 Registered: 4-2008 Posted From: 67.142.162.32  Rating: N/A |
it sounds like a lot of unnecessary garbage to throw away to me. Why not just buy a very large tarp and use ratchet straps to tie it down? | ||
| R.C.Bishop (Chuckllb)
Registered Member Username: Chuckllb Post Number: 934 Registered: 7-2006 Posted From: 75.210.246.8 Rating: N/A |
Yup...sounds practical to me. Far less $$$ I would guess. RCB | ||
| clint hunter (Truthhunter)
Registered Member Username: Truthhunter Post Number: 531 Registered: 1-2009 Posted From: 24.129.237.52 Rating: N/A |
I've been thinking the of greenhousing the buses since my first one 25 years back, have yet to do it it thought, a canadian thing maybe, to try and get more summer for growing... thing is girls only dress lightly in the natural warmth, so I am inclined to go along with edtheshawdoman on this one, but parking inside a greenhouse still has it's merritts in the cold climates, I have created some good strong lasting ones for pretty cheap with woven poly, seen re-bar used for a frame hopes with this stuff, to , plastic conduit on small ones, could work as a add on a room for long term boon docking perhaps. | ||
| Nellie Wilson (Vivianellie)
Registered Member Username: Vivianellie Post Number: 326 Registered: 11-2008 Posted From: 75.178.92.43 Rating: N/A |
Clint - Been thinking along those lines myself. Nellie PS. Can you send some of whatever you're smoking? | ||
| hojji firemaker (Hojjifiremaker)
Registered Member Username: Hojjifiremaker Post Number: 56 Registered: 4-2008 Posted From: 67.142.162.34 Rating: N/A |
this site has it all. http://www.farmtek.com/farm/supplies/home |