Hey friends, welcome back to Grand Adventure!
I'm your host Marc Guido, and in today's episode we're going to evaluate a
brand-new RV cover and also show you the easiest way to put it on your RV, so stay
tuned!
So despite our best intentions we're a little bit late getting our cover on
this year. I had to come home yesterday and get up on the roof and clear almost a
foot of snow off the roof of the trailer, but now overnight things dried out and
before the next storm rolls in tomorrow, we're going to get that cover on. Now
this cover was sent to us by the manufacturer BougeRV. They're sold on
Amazon. We already had a cover for our travel trailer, but we decided to give
theirs a shot as well, and give it a thorough evaluation for you guys. It's a
fraction of the price of what we paid for ours. These are sold on Amazon. The
one for our size RV is $239.99 and for up to a 30-foot RV they're $259.99. It's a
four-ply roof panel and single-ply side panels. It's got extensive zippers for
accessing the trailer or opening your slides while the cover's on. It's got
vents and the side panels are breathable, so that'll keep any mold from forming
underneath the cover. And covers are a great way to protect your RV during the
off-season, keep it out of the weather if you have to park it outside like we do.
There are folks who are against putting covers on their RV. We like putting one
on ours because it keeps the weather away. The big secret is to make sure that
it fits well, snugly so that nothing is going to be flapping around in the wind
which can cause any damage. And that's part of what we're going to be checking out
with this one.
So the first thing you want to do is lay the cover out as flat as you can
possibly get it, and then you want to take the sides and fold the sides up
inside out, so you want to have the center of the cover, the outside facing
up, and then fold the sides in so that way the inside is exposed of the sides
that you've just folded up.
Also make note of which end is the front of the of
the cover.
Now once you've got that laid up inside out, roll the cover up from back to front.
Now the covers all set to walk onto the roof. Now this is admittedly a lot
easier with two people than one, but we'll get it up there.
Now that you've got it on the roof, simply unroll it from back to front and
flip the sides down.
Now the BougeRV cover is fitted with elastic all the way around, so the next
step is to pull it down on the side so that everything is even and snug, the
elastic underneath the RV. Now that that's done, what we're going to do is
tie the straps that go from one side to the other
beneath the RV, to keep everything taut.
One here,
there's a buckle here,
and one here.
Now the final step is going to be to secure the straps above the
front and the back of the trailer.
We like the vents that enhance the airflow
along the roof line on both sides of the cover. We really like the fact that the
cover is long enough to cover up our tires and eliminate the need to have
separate tire covers to keep UV rays from deteriorating our sidewalls. Now if
you have to gain access to a door or a slide, there are zippered panels all
along the side, both sides of the cover to be able to zip that up roll it up and
to be able to gain access.
So we're fairly impressed with this cover by BougeRV. It's every bit the
equivalent of the one that we spent over $400 for here at a local dealership
in Salt Lake City two years ago. Save over $200, it's
$239.99 for 24- to 27-foot, and $259.99 for a 27- to 30-foot. We'll put a link
right down below in the video description to this RV cover on Amazon.
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