Fix It

We are heading home. Finally! Well, to be honest, we are heading home with a number of stops along the way. It will be a while before we are seriously on our way!
First, we are leaving our new piece of paradise at RiverBend to attend a Tiffin RV Rally at Lake Okeechobee, FL. One nice thing about the Tiffin rallies is that they bring a service crew in to fix  three minor things on each motorhome. So, a few weeks before the rally Mr. Dreamy and I looked around to find three things.

Amazing!! 

We had to look... 

and think about it!

After the experience we had with our previous motorhome, this is a novel experience.

OK, we have a blind that isn't working. That's one.

Hmmmm..... Think. Think. Think!

Do you think the LED light strip over the door awning is sagging a bit?

Think. Think. Think!

We are missing a screw cover in the closet.

And, so it went. We couldn't find much to be fixed at all.

I guess our motorhome understands our thinking and our conversations.

Suddenly, the water and tank gauges stopped reading levels accurately.

Then, an edge of the counter simply fell over.

Next a light cover fell off, in the wee hours of the morning when nothing was touching it.

Then something else went awry. Something that is really worthy of being fixed by the Tiffin crew. But... do you think either of us can remember what that thing is?! No!

Do you suppose they can fix my brain?!

Raise the Roof

If you don't own a Tiffin motorhome then you might not understand "Red Bay". Red Bay is Tiffin's service center. They accommodate many RV's and conduct repairs of all sorts in their 50+ service bays. Mr. Dreamy feels that if something needs to be done, we are better off heading to Red Bay where there are warehouses of parts, technicians that work on nothing but Tiffin motorhomes, and engineers just down the road at the factory.

Generally when one arrives at Red Bay you are assigned a number and you wait, sometimes 3 or more weeks, for your number to come up. So, it was quite a shock to arrive at Red Bay on the afternoon of Dec. 21 and to be in the service bay at 7 AM the next morning. Even more of a shock, we had 4 teams of technicians working on our motorhome. It seems that most people had given up and gone on to wherever it is they were going for Christmas, and there were more technician teams than there were motorhomes that needed to be serviced.

One team addressed an issue we had with the blinds on our passenger side window. 

A technician worked on caulking in our sink. 

Another team addressed issues we had with the cruise control.

And, one team raised the roof. 

Literally!

We had trouble with the bathroom door flying open as we motored down the road.

It turns out that there was a gap between the door and the wall.

A gap that got larger as you looked down the wall.

As we trundled down the road, bumps would cause the latch to disengage,

thus allowing the door to open and smash into the refrigerator.

The back wall had moved, or more likely, had never been in the right location.

The fix?

Jack the roof up, and push the wall forward!

The holes in the floor are where the wall had originally been anchored to the floor. 

The holes were covered by a piece of trim,

and now everything works wonderfully!