so we love things that make RV life easier and we love them even more when they're super
easy to install so in this video we're gonna give you our top five super easy RV upgrades
so if you've been watching this channel for any length of time you've probably gathered that
both my husband ben and i aren't like the super handiest of people we are
not afraid to dive in and try to learn something new when it comes to working on our rv but we have
no sort of mechanical background either one of us we don't have any sort of construction background
nothing that really makes us feel more comfortable when it comes to just diy stuff on
the rv so anything that we've kind of added in as an upgrade or a mod means we have to feel
pretty super comfortable doing it ourselves and not requiring anything huge in the sense of diying
or things like that so pretty excited to give you our top five rv upgrades that we have made
that are super super simple and we're gonna start with upgrade number one
so our number one rv upgrade is probably on most people's lists of the very first thing
that they upgrade when they get their rv and that is a new rv mattress now i don't think
i have heard anyone say yet of the mattress that came with their rv from the factory wow
this is the most comfortable mattress that i've ever slept on in my entire life it just doesn't
happen you don't hear that from people everybody needs to replace their rv mattress from the
factory for whatever reason most rv manufacturers just don't put the most comfortable mattress in
those rvs from the factory so we've upgraded our mattress a couple of times now to be able to find
the mattress that we feel is the absolute most comfortable and best for our sleep needs we were
recently introduced to rvmattress.com by brooklyn bedding rvmatress.com is a brooklyn bedding brand
known for the top-of-the-line comfort and quality plus their mattresses are made right here in the
u.s and conveniently shipped to you for free no matter how or where you sleep rvmattress.com
has the right mattress for you rvmattress.com makes mattresses that are perfect fit to ensure
a restful night's sleep and maximum energy on all of your adventures and that's important
for us too because we've got two kids to keep up with plus this rv lifestyle which means if
we're not sleeping mama ain't happy and you know the saying about when mama ain't happy they offer
different firmness options heights and dimensions even rv specific and non-traditional sizes to fit
exactly your style of rv plus they are made to be comfortable in all temperatures and climates this
is important because we have seen certain types of foam mattresses that actually harden when it's
cold outside you don't want to be sleeping on something that feels like it's as hard as a rock
just because it's cold so not only do they have different firmness options but they come with
a 120 sleep night guarantee now this is why this has been important for us because the
very first mattress that we got from rv mattress we thought we would want the medium firmness turns
out that's not what we wanted we really wanted the firm firmness so they swapped it out for us
no hassle very easy process to ship us the right one to make sure we were getting the
best night's sleep so what we really like about this mattress is it actually feels like a real
bed not like the thin rv mattresses that a lot of rvs come with it's nice and it's thick and it just
feels so much more like home so when they ship this particular mattress to us it came in a box
rolled up which actually made it pretty easy to get in to the rv so we hoisted it in unwrapped
it and literally like poof it expanded and here it was pretty super simple process to get it into
the rig and since all of the mattresses from rvmattress.com come with a 10-year
warranty the nice thing is is we know we're not going to have to worry about replacing this
until the kids are at least out of college so since we are loving our new rv mattress
by brooklyn bedding we think you probably will too and that is why we have partnered with rv
mattress where you can click the link below or go to rvmattress.com forward slash grateful and
get 20 off of your mattress with the code grateful this is one of the easiest upgrades that we have
made to our rv and we know it's one of the easiest upgrades that you can make too and this is just
also the perfect time to thank rvmattress.com for being the sponsor of today's video
so our number two easy rv upgrade was our micro air thermostat now why this is just
an amazing upgrade was last night this is exactly what happened it actually got a little cold here
in florida yesterday and we were not in our rv at the time we were over visiting some friends in
another city in their rv so as the temperature's dropping i know in my head i'm sure that it's
getting kind of cold in the rv well right at about that point ben brings out his phone and he is able
to remotely adjust and turn on the furnace in this rv because the micro air thermostat is wireless
and there's no sort of monthly contract it just goes off of the wi-fi signal so he's able to
remotely turn on the furnace and we're able to come to an rv that's not freezing cold on the
inside the other nice thing about the micro air thermostat is you can actually set ranges so you
can set it to not say be warmer than 78 degrees and then you can say i don't want it any colder
than 68 degrees and it's going to automatically turn on whatever system needs to be turned on
to maintain that particular range of temperature also since we do travel with our pets it's nice to
be able to just check in remotely make sure that the temperature in the rv isn't too high or too
low for our pets and probably the best thing is that this was super easy to install it literally
unplugged from our current wiring we plugged it into our current wiring and mounted it where our
old thermostat was it was so easy anybody can do it because it's connected to wi-fi you can also
update the firmware at any particular time through that wi-fi connection so it is available on amazon
and we'll put a link in the description below for the microair thermostat on amazon
so our super easy upgrade number three was actually a fan that we installed for our fridge
and it sits outside here on the outside of our rv now when you have an rv absorption style
fridge which is what our rig has and you do find on a lot of other rvs then basically it's using an
ammonia gas type of system that helps to keep things cool on the outside however that system
can get pretty warm and the warmer that system gets the harder it's going to be to keep things
cool in the fridge so what this fan does is it helps keep these components cool by taking that
hot air and actually moving it up to the top where it comes out of the vent on the roof so overall it
improves the efficiency of the fridge but it also makes the fridge not have to work quite as hard
to keep the food cool so we definitely noticed a huge difference in the performance of
our fridge where we weren't having to set it to the absolute coldest temperature just to be
able to maintain a decent level of coolness in the fridge we're able to run it now on a little
bit lower setting and still have things plenty cool by using this particular fan so this fan
we did get on amazon and i'll put a link in the description below for this particular style of fan
rv upgrade number four that we have made that has been very easy is a fan on the inside of the
fridge as well as the fan on the outside of the fridge so this particular fan we actually got from
amazon and what this particular fan does is it actually helps the inside of the fridge
by creating not only air circulation but the biggest thing that this is designed to do
is to keep these fins and the absorption fridge from actually freezing over when these fins freeze
over you're not going to have correct temperature control on the inside of this absorption fridge
so there's actually toggle switches that i can toggle on and it starts the fan running so we
usually just let those fans run especially when we're parked inside of a campground
we can also turn those fans on if we notice that things feel like maybe the temperature's just not
maintaining a very good temperature and we need that air circulation there's also a switch in
here for a light so if you want to use the light that's in here you can switch that on as well
overall this has totally improved the efficiency of our rv fridge especially on hot days during
the summer so these upgrades have been an absolute lifesaver for full-time rv living
so we will put a link in the description below for this particular fan on amazon
so our fifth super easy rv upgrade that we just recently made were these max air fans now we got
these from e-trailer and let me tell you why we absolutely love e-trailer for components like this
is you can get on the phone with them before you even order this and make sure that it's the
right size the right fit for your specific rv so we love e-trailer for their great
support and of course we'll have a link in the description below for these from e-trailer but
why we love these fans is because they are reversible so we can set the one in the bathroom
to suck air in why this is pushing air out and create kind of a vortex of air
same if we open the side windows and have this pushing air out or even bringing air in it creates
just kind of that airflow that helps you achieve whatever goal you might have as far as if maybe
you're cooking and you need to get the air out of the rv or if you just want to bring some airflow
in so there's multiple speeds there's an on off the beautiful thing about this is that the cover
is automatic so the cover will tilt open automatically when you turn it on
and close automatically when you turn it off our old style vents we actually had to sit there and
manually crank the vent open and manually shut the vent cover when operating the fan
this is a seamless one touch does it all with the on off switch the other thing that is absolutely
beautiful about these particular fans is they also have a remote so if you would rather just be
sitting on the couch and want to turn on the fan just point the remote at the fan and it'll do its
trick so it was a super easy install ben did the whole install so very easy for me of course but
like i talked about at the beginning of this video we are not technical at all so if ben can do it
anybody can do it and of course the beautiful thing is is that e-trailer is always there to help
with their customer support so if you get into a pickle when you're installing one of these types
of fans or any components that you get from e-trailer you can always pick up the phone
and get on the phone with one of their customer support people as well so why we've done dozens of
upgrades to this rv over the years these are the five most recent upgrades that we have done that
have been super easy and so we wanted to show you guys as well just kind of what we've done but also
keeping things super simple so links in the description below for all of the products
that we talked about in this particular video you'll have to let us know if you
have any questions in the comments below that we can answer for you let us know what are
some of the upgrades that you have done that you thought were just super simple and made rv life
way easier we would love to hear what some of you guys have done with your rvs as well is this thing
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it's that we have done within the last six months or so show the show
because they were super easy and we know
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