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08-15-2007, 10:34 AM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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OK its mighty hot outside,  including the roof of your MH. Has anyone ever tried using a soaker hose to keep their roof cooler. Just having enough water pressure to keep the roof dripping.
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Lloyd, Cheryl & Samantha our Shih-Tzu 
07 Pace Arrow 38P & 07 Liberty 4x4
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08-15-2007, 10:34 AM
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Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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OK its mighty hot outside, including the roof of your MH. Has anyone ever tried using a soaker hose to keep their roof cooler. Just having enough water pressure to keep the roof dripping.
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Lloyd, Cheryl & Samantha our Shih-Tzu
07 Pace Arrow 38P & 07 Liberty 4x4
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08-15-2007, 10:43 AM
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Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
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Now, there's an idea. 
I have a dark painted coach with a white roof, and the ceiling feels to be room temp to the touch.
However, the interior walls feel noticeably warmer than the ceiling.
I do have more insulation in the roof than the sidewalls.
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Adios, Dirk - '84 Real Lite Truck Camper, '86 Wilderness Cimarron TT, previously 4 years as a fulltimer in a '07 DSDP
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08-15-2007, 11:09 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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My unit is also dark colored. I know that there have been several business' in my area that have cooled their buildings down by using a sprinkler on the roof. Its time to go to Lowes for a hose.
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07 Pace Arrow 38P & 07 Liberty 4x4
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08-15-2007, 11:29 AM
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Administrator in Memoriam
Newmar Owners Club Retired Fire Service RVer's Spartan Chassis
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Let us know the results.
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Adios, Dirk - '84 Real Lite Truck Camper, '86 Wilderness Cimarron TT, previously 4 years as a fulltimer in a '07 DSDP
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08-15-2007, 11:44 AM
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I thought about it and decided I would just park inside here.
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AKA - Oemy
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08-15-2007, 12:11 PM
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First response: NO, DON'T DO IT !!
I have tried that (using drip-line with mister heads on the roof), and spend many hours cleaning up afterward.
Possible exception: you are using distilled water.
Short story at: http://www.davidmc.org/notescomments.html#MCT
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08-15-2007, 01:41 PM
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Winnebago Owners Club Pond Piggies Club Appalachian Campers Mid Atlantic Campers
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Here's a nice cool parking spot.
-Tom
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08-15-2007, 02:35 PM
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Workhorse Chassis Owner
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It will save water and be less of a mess if you just set a stool in your shower and let the water drip on you in there! 
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2005 Itasca Sunrise 33', W20 Chassis, Ultrapower, Henderson Trac Bar
2012 Chevy Captiva Sport AWD, ReadyBrute Elite Tow Bar, Blue Ox Base Plate, Protect-A-Tow
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08-15-2007, 02:40 PM
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Jayco Owners Club
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by offshore:
OK its mighty hot outside, including the roof of your MH. Has anyone ever tried using a soaker hose to keep their roof cooler. Just having enough water pressure to keep the roof dripping. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>
The water dripping from your air conditioner is a relatively clean source of water for wetting your roof. It would promote cooling by evaporation.
There was suppose to be a product coming out Hydrohide that would work for this but I've not seen anything on it (or it might have been that night I forgot to put on my aluminum foil helmet).
Anyway, it's a good idea but with RO (reverse osmosis) or distilled water.
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2016 Jayco White Hawk 27dsrl
US Army 1968-70 SETAF 559th Vicenza Italy
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08-16-2007, 03:18 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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OK we have the ball rolling now, lets keep our thinking caps on and we are bound to come up with a idea that really work...by that time it will probably be winter.  What if we run a beed of corking from the roof AC unit along the roof to channel the clean source of water. The coach will have to be a degree off level to keep the water flowing  . Then again we could just sit in the shower.
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07 Pace Arrow 38P & 07 Liberty 4x4
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08-16-2007, 06:33 AM
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Jayco Owners Club
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How about a corrugated poly roof material like http://www.corlite.net/ which is UV stabilized instead of or over the rubber, aluminum, or fiberglass roofing we currently have? Water from your holding tank could be run through it and returned to a holding tank with the capability to refrigerate mechanically or just dump in some ice.
There is a new super thin solar film that could be coated onto the corrugated poly to run a self contained thermoelectric cooler but that might cost more than the RV is worth. 
Or, mount a slew of solar collectors on the roof and run the power through thermoelectriclly cooled ceiling fabric inside the RV. The solar collectors would provide shade to the roof as well as power.
offshore; One of my favorite authors uses your neck of the woods in his novels - James Lee Burke http://www.jamesleeburke.com/ - New Iberia, Jeanerette, etc. His latest book "Tin Roof Blow Down" offers guys like me in the frozen tundra a look at the life during and after Katrina set within the mystery novel.
Where's my aluminum foil hat??
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2016 Jayco White Hawk 27dsrl
US Army 1968-70 SETAF 559th Vicenza Italy
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08-16-2007, 08:49 AM
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Senior Member
Fleetwood Owners Club Workhorse Chassis Owner
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Now thats what I'm talking about...aluminum foil hats!!!!  we could even make shoulder pads. 
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Lloyd, Cheryl & Samantha our Shih-Tzu
07 Pace Arrow 38P & 07 Liberty 4x4
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08-23-2007, 05:41 AM
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I tried that once didn't work out as planned and honestly its not really worth your time to do so.
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