Hey come on in! I'm going to give you a tour of our 2018 Jayco Pinnacle 37MDQS. Follow me.
We've just come in the entryway and right across we have a little coat closet. We have all of our
controls, our lights. So you have all of that front and center and then you move into the main
area. The whole family sits here together to eat. We have an extendable table. We actually switched
out two of our chairs for a crate. The nice thing about this dog crate is it has I think a 300
pound weight capacity. And we have a comfortable spot without the crate taking up any of our living
space. The best thing about this is that it is built-in child entertainment. The kids, when we
let them, will ride these things up and down, up and down, all day long. We enjoy them too.
All right. Main living area. We put a carpet from Ruggable down here. We just thought we needed
something to tie the space together a little bit that was a little more decorative than
the plain carpeting that comes with the RV. And so,
the nice thing about this: you can just take this whole top layer, throw it in your washer if it
gets dirty. Wash it, dry it, put it right back down. And it kind of goes with our décor style,
rustic lodge, maybe a little bit like
Irish pub feel. You'll find a lot of people that say this brown is too brown for them
and it's too dark. And people these days are painting the cabinets white or gray and I love
that too. I think it's beautiful. But I don't think we'll do that with our RV because we both
really do like this too. So we've just added some touches like the carpet and some of our
decorations to make it a little more us, a little more outdoorsy, lodgy feeling. And we have the
gray couches and I think that helps because then it's not too much brown, on brown, on brown.
So this pulls out into a queen size bed, I believe. So we've had guests sleep here before.
We have all this space. The kids do sometimes drag their toys out here, play out here. So it works
for everybody. And we have a super nice fireplace. I'm going to turn the heat off. It's still summer
after all. It's too hot for the heat but the ambiance is super nice. So we enjoy that even when
it's not winter, even when it's not cold. But it heats the place really nicely when it is cold. The
other nice thing about this unit is the TV is on a lift. There's a lever right here to lift the TV
and up it goes. It's a 50 inch TV. Sometimes it needs a little help.
And there we have it. When we don't watch TV we have this extra window, extra natural light. And
this whole space for anything: decorations, prep. I like that there isn't a pantry right here that
splits the space like you see in a lot of other RVs. I think those pantries are
probably bigger than what we have over here but I feel like it's a little awkward then to use this
for kitchen prep. This is really nice and seamless to move from one space to the other
and do all of our kitchen prep. So it has all of your basic kitchen necessities. It has your three
burner stove top. It has an oven, microwave. Some people have a convection oven in there as well.
We don't. We use our oven and our stovetop a lot, which some RVers say they never do or they'll use
their oven for storage. We cook with all of it. And we also added a bread machine and a blender.
A big sink and also big fridge. Ours does not run on propane. It's a regular residential fridge.
The one thing I do want to show you that not most other RVers have is our dishwasher.
This did not come standard. Kevin installed this for us and if you take a look on this side,
there were three drawers just like this right on this side. So we did give up some storage space
in the kitchen, but we decided it was worth it for us because we got this dishwasher instead.
So if I open this up you will see that it has a lot of room and it fits a ton
of stuff. So some dishwashers are more of a drawer style dishwasher and people sometimes replace
their oven with their dishwasher um but we wanted both. Like I said we use our oven. And so Kevin
was able to plumb it right into the same line as the sink. And then we have this outlet here
which now does not go down. Usually these go down. But now because we have the dishwasher there it
just stays up permanently but the electricity is rounded in the same spot. So Kevin will probably
do a separate video on that but for now let me just say that is worth its weight in gold.
So I mentioned that we do have a pantry. And I think some people's pantries are bigger,
some are smaller, but we have three pretty large areas. Here we have a couple of drawers
as well. We have some other cabinets where we put some kitchen necessities, some food stuff as well
but most of it's in there. And then we move right into the kids room and it's right off the kitchen.
So it's nice we can see them as we're out here cooking, living, and they can have their own
space. Some of their stuff migrates out, but most of the time it stays in here which is why
we wanted a mid-bunk room with storage, with space to play on the floor. The North Point
version of this mid-bunk had a nice sliding door. It was like a recessed pocket door.
That is our kind of one regret with this floor plan,
is that this door does get in the way. So it's like what are we doing here? So at times
I'm standing here trying to get in the fridge and the kids want to come out and
um. But you know for the most part we figure it out. And right now Nathan sleeps in this room. He
had his crib when we first started. Then he graduated to his toddler bed with the rail. And
we're still thinking at some point we might build some bunks in here,
depending on how ambitious we feel. So for right now Klara is up in the loft right above this.
And I'll show that in a few minutes. But maybe we would do a little bit of a bunk thing here or
maybe a loft bed and have some more floor space underneath. So all of their toys,
books, clothes, are all stored in these drawers, in these cabinets. So we use a lot of these
little storage cubes for all their things. We weed them out occasionally
so that we don't accumulate too much stuff, but I mean that's life with kids. So if we
come back to the entrance area and we work our way up to the front of the RV instead,
we go up a couple of stairs. This shoe rack looks like it's always been here but we actually got
this idea from another RVer and it's from Ikea. And we can put all of our shoes and kids shoes.
And that solves the problem that a lot of RVers have: where do I put my shoes? They just tend
to fly around the entrance way and now we can put all of our shoes right there. So right here
is the ladder up to our daughter Klara's loft. And it's pretty easy to get up into. So she just
climbs up here every night. It's a little tight for us adults, but for her it's good.
And actually we tend to sit right here where we have a little more headspace with the vent. But
it has good airflow in here and we have a little fan for her. And she can store her stuffed animals
and her books and has a window as well. This back portion of this railing was here but this entire
area is open. And for young kids up there that worried us a little bit. So Kevin and his dad
built this part of the gate. And there are several ways that I've seen that others have
done this as well Some people put a track in here so it slides. Ours has a latch here, close it, and
then it has a latch here and a latch here. So our bathroom is right here. We only have one of them.
Sometimes I think it'd be nice to have a second as our kids get older. You know some days it's like
a fight for who gets to use the bathroom first or who's still in there when someone else needs it.
But for now it works out really really well for us and it's quite large. Lots of storage and also the
mirror cabinet, under the sink, good amount of countertop space for a few things. We like to use
baskets. That helps be able to store a few more things. And then
I've seen these RV tours and I think like the thing to do is you get into your shower
so that people can see how big it is. I mean this is a tall shower and it is quite wide
as well. So here is the master bedroom. This is also the office where I work. So I can
show you that real fast. It's nothing fancy. Kevin just took out a couple of the drawers
on this little dresser, enough for me to put this little folding chair here, sit down,
and have my knees be able to go in. And then I work from here. I have two monitors
with my laptop open. You know, got an office with a view so that's pretty good.
And that's how we earn money on the road. And then when I'm done for the day the chair
stows away nice and conveniently. We also have our onboard washer and dryer right here. That
for us is super convenient. And the other part of this closet is just clothes storage.
The bed lifts up. We have some storage under there as well. And that is it.
So we showed you the inside of the RV yesterday. So today we're gonna do a
walk around outside the RV and Kevin will take you through all of that. Here we go.
One of the options that we got with this one was dual awning. All of them come with
this great big one right here which is really nice. The extra one is super nice for keeping
the sun off of the dinette and the couch back there. And pretty much when it's really hot
outside any extra awnings you have to keep the sun off keeps the internal temperature
a little bit nicer which has been great. Next up is the outdoor kitchen. We have
some space in here, an extra fridge right here. And then this pulls out to give you an extra cook
top and you just have to attach a propane cord underneath to a quick disconnect down below.
Now a lot of outdoor kitchens have a sink outside. Ours does not. I think that's probably the only
thing I really feel like I'm missing here. Enough so that I think our plans in the future will
include putting some kind of quick disconnect hose on this side. Next up over here is a big
cargo bay door. This goes all the way through and we'll show you on the other side where it goes.
This is a huge space and we have always felt like we have more cargo room than we have weight
capacity. So it doesn't look terribly full right now but uh the kids bikes will typically go in
here right in the middle on top of that battery bank there. And then all the all the toys sort
of just fill in in the front right here. So it's usually full-ish when we travel but not packed.
Underneath here we have another storage bay. If we had gotten the built-in generator this
is where it would have gone. But we did not because we don't need it.
It adds a whole bunch of weight and now we have extra cargo space for some other odds and ends.
And then the old batteries used to be up here actually. And I took them out and rewired it to go
back in there which also had some nice weight savings to it. Then on this side we have
our main propane tanks. These are the ones that are always hooked up. And we have the control for
our leveling system in the front here so when we get someplace and we just want to put the
landing gear down, this is the little control panel I use before I typically go inside and
use that touch screen to figure out what my levels are and press auto level and all that good stuff.
And then this one right here, is the other side of that big compartment that I showed you over
there. It goes all the way through. And here we have the water cabinet. This is a built-in
water filter that we've had. It's always helpful to have some hand sanitizer over here because,
you know, you never know what you're going to get into sometimes.
These are the tubs we keep all of our hoses and the sewer pipe down in that one. We keep
a bunch of Lynx leveler blocks that I like to use for leveling. We got a little baby one gallon air
compressor which I can use to fill up all of our tires. It's also really nice to be able to
blow things off with it. It's super helpful. It's light. It's quiet. I really like that one a lot.
And then I keep a lot of other electrical stuff in over there. Another thing that has been
really really helpful. Recently we installed this little flow meter from flows.com
and this will tell me exactly how much water we've used out of our fresh water tank. So I know I have
a 65 gallon fresh water tank and there's another 10 gallons in the water heater but that's not
really that useful because it just always stays in there and it's replaced from the freshwater tank.
So as we use water this counts down for me to let me know exactly how much I have left. And it also
helps me to figure out how full some of my other tanks are. It's been really really helpful. Next
up, inside, I'll show you all our batteries and some of the solar gear that I've got tucked away
back in there. In here I built a little box for our six Battle Born batteries. And then I took off
the panels back in there so that it was, 1: easier access for installing all that equipment in there
and 2: it's, at least in my mind, I like that I get a little bit more airflow for all that stuff
this way. Soon we'll have some more videos up to show you about the installation of all of that
stuff and the solar panels on the roof and how it all works together. So I mentioned that we have
60 gallons, 65 gallons of fresh water capacity. We also have a 50-gallon black tank and we have
two gray tanks. One of them is a little further forward in the RV and that one is for the bathroom
sink, the shower, the washer. That one is also 50 gallons. There's another one back here a little
closer to the rear that is just for the kitchen and that one is 37 gallons. We are a 50 amp rig.
This in my mind has been something that we couldn't have lived without at this point. This is
one of the more expensive EMS's. So we plug into this before we ever can plug into any
campground power. And this will protect us from surges, low voltage, high voltage,
quite a few things. We have an electric spool so I don't have to cart this cable out anywhere because
I can just press extend or retract.
The retract function is really nice because when I've got 25 feet of cord out
I don't have to lug anything. I just press the button and sit here and wait 'til it goes in.
And the last couple things I want to show you have to do with the truck. We tow with a 2016
RAM 3500 dually. And let me show you the hitch. And the hitch we use is a B&W companion hitch.
Now that we've shown you both the inside and outside of our RV that concludes our tour. We
didn't show you every little detail so if you have any questions leave us a comment below. So we hope
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