MISTAKES EVERY RV OWNER SHOULD AVOID | RV Setup For Newbies

You two are a riot!! You missed one major step that I do right when I get to the campground - open a beer.

Great video, I would have added a couple sanitary and safety precautions with the water hookup. 1: It’s always a good idea to presume the last person in your campsite was a novice. They do nasty things like placing their sewer hose over the water bib to rinse it out. Carrying some Clorox wipes to wipe down the exterior of the water hookup only takes a few moments. Then on to step 2. 2: some campsite water supplies can have sand or debris buildup that can clog a pressure sensor or filter. Always run the water briefly after wiping down and before hooking up your hose.

As a private pilot we use WRITTEN CHECKLIST for each phase of travel. With any crew communications is paramount, if needed the handheld radios work great if necessary. One crew reads checklist, the other executes and repeats. Both have checklist and all items are confirmed...

Quick tip, purge the air outta that water hose before hooking to RV and open one of the taps inside RV to purge the air from system before turning on water supply instead of having all that sputtering when you first open a tap. Great video by the way! Also remember not to close breaker at power pole until power cable is secured to RV (you do not want that power cable to be live when you plug it in) and have all RV off breakers off before power is applied. RV breakers can then be closed in turn to prevent any big current surge if the whole RV is powered at once.

I just found your channel yesterday . I love your videos. You two are helping me recover from my knee surgery. I’m 72 years old and I do all the driving. My husband is legally blind but we still love to travel and explore the great outdoors. We have a 35ft Toy hauler (that’s up for sale) and we used to have a F350 Super Duty crew cab. (A big truck). We traded our truck for a car and then also bought a smaller truck, F150 crew cab four wheel drive. We also bought a smaller travel trailer and will be back on the road again this summer. I’m recovering from knee surgery and looking forward to loading up our new to us trailer and get back on the road. In the mean time I’m enjoying your videos. THANK YOU FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT

For auto-leveling we use Anderson trailer jack blocks. They are about 8” high and have magnets on the top to secure them to the jack pads so you don’t have to worry about location. It also minimizes how much you have to extend your jacks and makes your rig much more stable.

40+ years RV-n (not full timers) and I'd say you nailed it all with your Number 1 rule; " Park it all where your wife wants it ! " ... the other stuff is easy... Slow & steady wins the race. You are both are spot on the process of setting up.

Personally I like to let the water run for a few moments before I put my regulator or hose on. Just makes sure there is not a lot of crud coming out from the faucet

You guys are the perfect combination of entertaining, informative and downright fun. Excellent channel. Best I've found on RVing. My girlfriend and I just bought our first travel trailer. Soaking up all the info we can prior to that first back up and hookup! It's happening next week. Anyone watching that, should crack a beer, pull up a chair, sit back and enjoy the show. Mistakes will be made!! :-(

This is really well done. It should be at every dealers location as a mandatory watch before they buy and first outing!

Hey HANKS, Little tip for you, when you hook water to camper, you should fill hose with water First, so you have less air pushed through your system. Less bleeding required...great video👍

Great video! Couple things I would add is we always have someone inside the trailer when turning on the water to make sure there are no leaks inside. This saved us from completely flooding out our trailer. There was a crack in the freshwater pump housing and in the hot water tank, (another lesson learned). When we started sending water in the camper, we noticed water coming out onto the floor and shut the valve immediately outside. Small mess vs flooding out in this case. The other thing is we crack open the faucets throughout to expel the air in the system as it pressurizes. Our travel trailer has 2 bathrooms, 2 gray and black tanks and outside shower and kitchen. Like you guys said, really important to line up services in the site before disconnecting! Have fun and happy campin!

Quick disconnects are a must for use for the hoses. Makes things so much easier!

One helpful thing we do, we have multiple hoses, like three different length that can be used, and we use water quick disconnects, simple and fast. just a quick tip.

One piece of advice for you, is to run the water prior to hooking to your camper. You would be surprised at the color of some of the water that first comes out of the hydrant.Run it for 5-10 seconds till it runs clear.

I’ve watched a ton of videos, also a grand design owner for 4 years. My process is exactly as yours. You have done a good job.👍👍👍

Great video. Very informative and entertaining. My wife also uses that snaking hand gesture when helping me back up, fortunately for me she has usually positioned herself outside of my field of vision in the mirrors. One thought on the water filter placement. I always hooked mine up the same as you did until my wife corrected me. She said you might want to filter some of that funk from the hose before it comes into the camper. As usual she is correct, we now hook the filter up at the camper after the hose. We both have our strengths and weaknesses, focusing on the strengths and letting the weaknesses slide seems to work. We’ve been married for 37 years and camping in one form or another since day one, haven’t had the police called on us yet for fighting while setting up our site so I guess we’re doing ok. Keep up the good work on the videos, you got my follow.

My favorite find for setting up is the X-Chocks. My wife complained a lot when we first started RVing with the 5th wheel that it shook a lot when walking around inside. The X-Chocks got rid of about 75% of the shakiness. She was much happier after those were added to our gear.

My wife and I are just starting our journey, we sold our home and most of our possessions and bought a Minnie Winnie 31k class c rv . Anyway the reason I’m writing you guys is to say thank you for being so inspirational to us , because of you both just be so real you have almost become YouTube mentors . We are excited to meet you guys on the road sometime. Thank you again Love The Marchione’s

Sometimes when I'm down and depressed - I come on here and find your video's and laugh a ton - brings me right back to my normal self. Yes, been following you for some time now - but don't need to put my foolish thoughts on here like some. I do appreciate your simple application to problem solving and getting things done right. Learning is a life long experience - and rv ing is certainly one of them