Please share about your TT storage/home setup

[Crabman]

Here in the yard on grass, no cover, nothing special......

[Trucker1]

We have a garage big enough for trailer ( heated) with water sewer and hydro 50 amp, we use trailer for guests, also for summers outside full hookups beside garage on asphalt

[norty1]

We have a 18'x 36' and a 12' x 20' in the back yard for camper and tv.

[tatteroo]

Our new TT is parked on concrete inside our Morton out building. We have covering on the rafters so no bird droppings incase a bird gets locked inside. May seem little OCD, but it keeps it clean!

[Soulman]

We have ours in a shed in the backyard on gravel. Like a previous poster said, the only time ours sees sunlight is when we're out camping. My bride didn't want it in the backyard at first, but now she loves it because no one knows when we're packing to leave. We've got a couple sketchy neighbors. The shed has undergone several transformations as we've upgraded campers.

[Salsa03]

Our city doesn't allow parking of a boat or RV in the front driveway. Anything you want to park of that sort must be behind the frontline of the house.

I have a 185' deep lot, but unfortunately, not enough room on either sides of the house to slide one in.... (5' on one side and 7.5' on the other!)

So I have to lease a storage space in a nearby storage facility for the summer months. But my inlaws just moved into a new house on a 60acres lot, so we will store it there for winter (can't during Summer, cause they live about 80miles away, that wouldn't be an economical decision) and it will be more accessible than at the storage facility near where I live.

[dmax_83]

We store indoors and have since day one. The battery's are disconnected and we do not plug in to power when stored. Very little light enters the building but I draw the blinds anyhow. The flooring is gravel so I do park on some boards to keep off the gravel and to keep semi level. I do store slightly tongue high just in case the roof of the building ever leaked, it would keep water from pooling on the camper roof. All this might sound rather OCD, but she's 16 years old this year and still looks like brand new!

[eldermike]

Inside metal building with slides out and electric service.

[glsimms]

I keep our TT at a storage facility a couple of miles away, on gravel, no electric. I do keep a cover on it during the winter months, I just took it off this past week-end (YAY!!!).

I could keep it on one side of my driveway, but our neighborhood association won't allow it. Afraid it would start to look like a trailer park, I guess.......

[mcfarmall]

Originally Posted by Tunce the traveler

Yes, extended time periods they recommend tires off pavement. Got this info on this forum and Discount Tire.

My interpretation of 'off the pavement' is found in the Dexter Axle manual where they recommend jacking the trailer up so that the tires don't touch anything. This would let the suspension components relax and eliminate the load on the trailer sidewalls. If you think about it, when the trailer is parked for 6 months or whatever, there is a tremendous amount of strain concentrated on a small area of the sidewall. This condition would exist regardless of the surface it is parked on...concrete, asphalt, pea gravel or plywood.

If you parked on soil I could understand the plywood or plank to keep the tires from sinking into soft dirt but wood under tires on pavement doesn't make logical sense to me.

I'm not attacking your practice, I just want to find out if there is some chemical or mechanical reasoning behind the practice...for example I've heard that sitting a lead/acid battery on concrete will "damage" it. How & why?

[carey965]

summer in the driveway plugged in, in the winter my parents backyard with the battery pulled and about a box of dryer sheets in it, keeps the critters away and makes it smell awesome when you open it up

[SawBuck]

Originally Posted by carey965

summer in the driveway plugged in, in the winter my parents backyard with the battery pulled and about a box of dryer sheets in it, keeps the critters away and makes it smell awesome when you open it up

Carey965, tell me more about the dryer sheets. Where do you put them? Do you lay them out in random open areas, or do you try to stick them inside cabinets, storage spaces, etc?

[carey965]

just everywhere, in cabinets on beds, in the shower, under the dinette, in the outside storage areas anywhere you can think of

i just buy the cheap ones and a box does the trailer and the boat, i dont know what it is they dont like but it works, did it with my cars when i would store them in the winter and never had any issues with rodents

[BCx213]

Ours sits on the gravel pad beside our driveway which extends to the side of my garage. I cover it during the winter including the tires. I have to use portable power mover to move it back there due to a big city owned tree that stops me from backing it in there with my truck. The tires sit on stone pavers three concrete 12"x12" for each side for a flat surface to sit on. During the months of May 15-Sept 15 it can sit in beside my driveway.

[nwminnesota]

Next to the garage on the grass or what was grass. Going to put it on a concert slab this summer open for suggestions on how wide but I think ill make it 14 ft wide at least. No cover, I do have mixed feelings on to cover or not. I will eventually make a tire cover for the one side. I leave it plugged in all camping season long with the fridge on. This coming up winter I'll put blocks under the axles.

[wwsmith111]

We keep our 338 rlts behind where my wife works (big warehouse). I hooked up the 50 amp shore power to twin 20 amp extension cords which are on the same phase but different outlets giving me 40 amps using a 50 to 30 then a 30 to twin 20 amp adapters so I can run just about everything. There is a sewer clean out for the building about 50' away. I bought hoses to run to it and have the ability to dump when needed. I put the unit on four jack stands and leveled it so it is rock steady and the tires have most of the pressure off them. I do this when I camp as well. Jack stands remove any bounce or movement and is way cheaper than other solutions and just as fast. The first set of jack stands is just in front of the tandems with the other at the very front of the frame. I use a bottle jack to level at the tandems and the electric tongue jack at the front to jack up then set down on the jack stands in the front. Very fast no worries. I run down the electric stabilizer jacks as well for added stability. My camper does NOT move at all! I also use xchocks between the tires for safety just it case it comes off the jack stands in heavy winds which has never happened. I don't want it to go anywhere as it weighs about 11,000 lbs. Peace of mind is worth a lot. As far as I can tell it hasn't moved at all even during 70+ mph winds. I leave all three slides out and use the camper whenever I want as it is fully set up and ready to use. The slides block the sun from the tires so I don't use tire covers.

[norty1]

[QUOTE=norty1;187724]We have a 18'x 36' and a 12' x 20' in the back yard for camper and tv.

Just realized I didn't have a current pics. We have our sheds on concrete with water and 30a. When we bought the new rig, I had to raise the roof about a ft to clear the additional height.

[PKEagle]

Sorry guys. No TT here. Just a 5'er. This was the home for our previous Lance Travel Trailer.

Nonetheless, the space works perfectly well for our new 5'er.

[SawBuck]

Beautiful 5er PKEagle. I really like your PVC gate too. it looks like it blocks the view from the front well. The painted lines look helpful getting lined up on the concrete.

[knuts1]

I have had some gravel hauled in on the side of my house and put 30 amp service. I run water when I need it and we have out own septic so I can dump any time as well.