I have a history of overly complicated plumbing at our former homestead, and having an RV hasn’t prevented that hobby. But always for good reasons.

To make hooking up our fresh water supply components easier, I have added some hose quick connectors, that clip together very easily:

The first of these is at the tap, in case I want to disconnect due to sub-freezing temperatures. Following that connector is a two-way splitter, with a hose on one side, and a pressure gauge on the other:

This gauge is useful so I can see the pressure of the water supply (which I note in my campground reviews); the black needle indicates the current pressure, and the red needle indicates the maximum pressure:

Here they are at another campsite, with a frost-free tap (lowering the handle not only shuts off the water, but also drains the water out of the vertical pipe, so it doesn’t freeze and burst):

At the other end of that hose is a second splitter, with one side going to a flexible cleanout hose, and the other going to a pressure regulator (set to a maximum of 60 PSI, though not approaching that at this campground), another quick connector, and the water filters:

On the other side of the filters is another quick connector (so I can disconnect and put it away on travel days), and another gauge, to check the output water pressure (not very high at this campground):

Here are a couple of pictures showing both sides of the filters (the orange hose in the background is the “stinky slinky”, i.e. sewer hose, on a ramp for proper drainage):

The other end of the aforementioned cleanout hose has a built-in valve, and I added a quick connector:

That connector has a mate and a valve on the black tank flush port; this port is used to rinse out the black (toilet) tank:

Here is the hose connected and both valves turned on:

When I’m done, I can simply turn off these two valves (and the one back at the splitter), and easily disconnect, without any mess:

Nice improvements.

In the ceiling of our motorhome are a series of register and return vents for the three ceiling AC units; the air is sucked in on the right side, cooled (or heated), and blown out the left side:

Here’s a closer view of one of the intake vents:

Looking on the reverse side, you can see that each of them includes a foam filter to catch dust:

These filters need to be cleaned every few months. But we decided to try some replaceable filters from RV Air, that should do a better job than just a thin bit of foam:

A comparison of the new and old filters:

An old filter, showing the collected dust:

The new filter installed:

The vent back in the ceiling:

About half of the ceiling vents are a different kind, for some reason:

These ones are attached via a clip in the middle, so need a different style of filter:

We’ll see how these new filters perform; I think they’ll be an improvement.

An excellent idea from the Tiffin Allegro Bus 2016-2018 Owners group on Facebook: I added labels by the door of our RV with our contact information, and that we have a cat inside, in case there’s an emergency like a fire while we’re away from the coach.

To catch the eye a bit, I bought a red “IN CASE OF EMERGENCY CALL 911” sticker from Amazon, and cut out the first couple of lines:

Then used my label maker to print labels with our phone numbers, and “CAT INSIDE”. We decided to add them next to the door for better visibility, even when the slide-outs are in:

Hopefully nobody will ever need this information, but it’s good to have it, just in case.

Our coach has fold-down arms on the two cockpit chairs. When we bought it, one of the arms of the passenger chair was too low. We figured that someone had put too much weight on it and broken it:

However, I recently learned a trick: inside the small hole at the end of the armrest is an adjustment lever. One can put a finger in there and lift up the lever below the hole, and adjust the resting height of the armrest:

So now yay, it’s all better:

Mind blown! 🤯

Learn something new every day.