5 Inexpensive Products to Keep You Cool in your RV

It’s fun to get outside and enjoy all the summer activities, but when your fun in the sun is over you want your RV to be an oasis to keep you cool.  Sure, you have an air conditioner, but these five inexpensive products can assist the air conditioner in keeping you cool. You will appreciate it on those hot summer days.

My list of 5 inexpensive products to help keep you cool in your RV.

    1. Small portable fans: We take several small fans with us on hot weather RV trips. They can be used anywhere in the RV and they do a great job circulating the air and keeping you cool. The pets will like them too.
    2. Patio awning shade: If you don’t have a patio awning shade you don’t know what you are missing. A patio awning shade provides extra shade and privacy at your campsite. To get the right length awning shade for your RV just measure the roller tube on your patio awning. The awning shade slides into the utility groove of the awning roller tube and it can be set up or taken down within a few minutes. This is one of my favorite RV accessories.
    3. LED Lights: Incandescent light bulbs get extremely hot. If you use several lights in the RV on a hot summer night it adds that much more heat inside the RV. LED light don’t create the heat other bulbs do, and they use less energy too.  It’s easy to upgrade your RV lighting to LED lights; just match the base of the existing incandescent bulbs with the new replacement LED light or search for replacement lights by number. Installation is the same as the incandescent bulbs.  Less heat, less energy and brighter lights, a win-win for RV owners.
    4. Reflective Insulation: If you don’t have window awnings to help block the hot sun from entering the RV windows, products like Reflectix® can help beat the heat. This type of reflective insulation can be purchased at home improvement stores in various sizes for a reasonable price. The concept is to use the product to reflect the sun and heat away from the RV, hence keeping the interior cooler. If you have windows in the RV that let the hot outside temperatures inside the RV just cut a piece of reflective insulation to fit the window. You can use window visors, mini-blinds or day/night shades to help secure it in place against the windshield or windows. Depending on the product you use this inexpensive RV DIY fix will reflect up to 97% of radiant energy away from the RV windows.
    5. Ventilation:  Proper ventilation helps prevent excess heat in your RV. You can install vent covers over the existing roof vents to help increase ventilation in the RV. They are inexpensive, easy to install and they let the fresh air in, even when it’s raining. I use a vent cover on both ends of our RV to help promote cross-ventilation.

A few more tips for staying cool that won’t cost anything are to reserve or request a shady campsite, try to avoid opening the entry door as much as possible, cook outside rather than inside, and if all else fails head to the campground pool.

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2 thoughts on “5 Inexpensive Products to Keep You Cool in your RV

  1. Great information Mr Polk. I really enjoyed this information on those 5 inexpensive beat the heat tips and tricks. Y’all stay safe and as always blessings to you and your family!

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  2. On installing vent covers. i have watched your how to videos to installing these, but your videos don’t go into installing vent covers that have your pre install tabs. i have installed the correct vent covers, but each time the roof vent fan covers hit the top of the vent cover. I afraid if i continue with this, it will burn out the motor of the fan. my fan has the rain sensor on it. i have been told that there is no cover made to go over my vent fan. ??? then why would they put the make it with the pre-install tabs. i have a 2017 Montana High Country 374FL.
    When I first went to install, i would open the fan vent cover fully, then try to put the vent cover over it,and it would not fit. Thank You

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