How to Make your RV Cooler in the Summer - Installing Reflectix
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- How to Make you RV Cooler in the Summer - Installing Reflectix
How do you make you RV cooler when its 100*+ outside? We installed Reflectix to help insulate our windows better!!
--Things we used during this video--
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Bought a trailer back in November, been living in it with my dog sence, just finished doing all my windows too. I build Trailers for a living, and thought I knew all there is to know, however living in one has taught me a lot more, overcoming chalenges and learning new hacks is almost a skill now. 👍
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Right! Just when we think we have it figured out, we learn something new!
We love reflectix on our windows! Especially today when it’s supposed to hit 99° today ☀️
Right!! Works really well when you hit 105*
We started using reflectix a couple of years ago in our bedroom window. We love that it keeps it cooler and darker. We can sleep later. LOL!
We actually had to start taking one down in bedroom so we would get up at some point!! 🤣🤣
thanks for the info. I do like the magnet idea, I cant remember where, but I saw another lady do the inside of her cabinets.
What a great way to keep your cool! 😎 We are in the Michigan UP to escape the heat, but it was 91 today. 🥵 It’s supposed to cool back down Wednesday though. 😁
Jealous :-)
I appreciate the numbers you tested for. I just put reflectix in my travel trailer. My trailer is older and the older lightbulbs put out a crazy amount of heat. I will be switching them out for LED bulbs as soon as possible. Great vid. I am in NE Texas. It is hot here too!
Very cool! Yea we are luck that ours came with all LES!! Thanks for watching!
Great job. Thanks!
Thanks for watching!
just moved to Texas, thanks for the suggestions and video!
Welcome to Tejas!!
Great idea with the pillow in the sky light. At Lost Lagoon in El Campo now. Not a lot to do in the area but an amazing pool here. The camp site is awesome.
I think we have heard of that place! Worth a trip just to relax at the resort??
@@Millers_in_Motion I think it would be a great place to spend 2-4 days. We got here on Friday and it was 99% full. Sunday at 11am it was down to 40% full. So I would try to get here on Sunday so it is not so crowded. It would be a great stop on the way to somewhere else. Maybe a stop from Dallas to Padre Island or Corpus Cristi.
@@robertfromlifewithfavor very cool!! We are officially adding it to the list!
Watching here to support your channel watching from Philippines 🇵🇭
Thanks for the support Jenny!! It was nice meeting you over on the Not So Perfect Life Live Stream!!
Thank you so much for such a helpful video! I subscribed :)
Thanks for subbing!
We actually have a frame with sun shade on the roof works well in Arizona
Intresting!
What do you mean by a frame? I'm confused.
And is the sunshade ON your roof?
We have the same issue here in FL. My 26DBUD only has one AC, it did ok last summer but this year its struggling with the record heat. We went camping to Margaritaville and the AC could not bring the temp down below 90s, it was bad.
I recently bought a portable AC and rigged it up to assist but will also do the reflectix on the windows.
My brother installed a mini split.
Hopefully you got it down!!
How did your a/c work out? I bought a stand up a/c from Walmart it heats up and the tubing doesn’t fit in any of my windows. I’m returning it. Did you have a window unit? Help & got in Florida
We did this with our windows in both of our campers. I used the 3 M silver tape and went all around my frame. It has helped tremendously. Is it pretty no but in this Texas heat I do not care if it’s pretty
It has saved us more times that I want to admit!
Great video. I used that stuff to wrap my hot water heater at home and put it on my open wood ceiling in my garage. It works! I did have my windows in 2 of my vehicles including the front windshield coated with a ceramic tint. The heat reduction is amazing! Would that be an alternative???
I dont know it that would work for a replacement but I am defiantly going to do some research now!
THANK YOU for this video! I (Nancy) just installed Reflectix on all our windows (our Momentum) and loved the results....not so much the look, but it did make a big difference in reducing high temps.....is there any way you can send a picture of the magnets? Are they still sticking to the window frame and the Reflectix? I tried Command velcro strips, but the adhesive didn't hold to the hot window frames. I wanted to try magnets but thought they wouldn't work. Maybe provide a link of the magnets you used? Thanks!!!!
Thanks for watching, so we are still discussing if we like the magnets or not… They work fine in the smaller windows, but they are struggling to hold up the larger ones. We are actually considering using Velcro…
@@Millers_in_Motion Let us know if your Velcro works. On our two huge windows, I put spring tension rods to hold Reflectix. Rod are between the valence "sides". Working ok for now.
I know Grand Design offers an extra package were you can get some kind of insulated windows, did you guys have that?
So that’s dual pane windows, and we do not have that.
Question: Do you have three AC's in the unit? If so, can all three run at the same time?
We can if se are hooked up to 50amp but only 2 on 30 amp
Shouldn't these be attached to the outside of the windows? As in before the heat from the sun light gets trapped in between the window glass and the reflectix?
I would be worried about attaching it outside and the adhesive damaging the slide wall, its works pretty effective on the inside and its protected from the weather.
Do you have dual pane windows? I read somewhere using Reflectix on the inside of dual pane windows can cause them to crack. I was going to do this to ours but we have dual pane windows
So we have single pane windows, I haven't heard that about dual pain windows with the reflectix..
I keep seeing information about reflectix causes window seals to melt because it causes so much heat in the windows
We never had that problem, but we also kept it pretty tight tot the window, may that can happen with a bit of an air gap?
You see this happen a lot on Hyundai and Kia vehicles that people put windshield reflectors in idk why but I see it a lot and I ask do you use a windshield reflector… yes because the dash dries out also 😂 lol Korean vehicles
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Where did y'all get those black shades?
They where the shads that came with our RV
I live in the desert Southwest at 120+ degrees with very low humidity in the summer. Reflectix belongs on the OUTSIDE not the inside. Think about it.
So you’re saying we should put reflectix on the outside of an RV that moves at least once a week…
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I’ve used it but I feel like I’m living in a cave. I have to see out.
Lauren said the same thing 🤣 we ended up taking a few down and using them on the windows that are in direct sun!
Jazz Hands... lol...
Though that was better than awkward hands! 🤣
Great video. AC units remove humidity, adding a dehumidifier will not make the AC units run more efficiently.
Thanks! They sure won’t, but in the winter they do come in handy to keep that humidity down!
Living in humid Mississippi, I’m gonna have to let you know that a dehumidifier SIGNIFICANTLY HELPS.
Yes it does!!!
Not all a/cs dehumidify
@@septemberamyx you missed the point. But I’ll respond, so you have an AC unit that puts the condensed moisture back into the recirculated air? Which one? This will be new to all of us.