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RockyMtnRay · 08-05-2003, 01:07 PM

Probably not very easily done, leastwise with the 2720SL (couch) model. For one thing the furnace, along with its gas and electrical lines, is built into the base of the couch and if you want heat, you'll have to relocate furnace, gas lines, and electrical. If you leave the couch in place, there's only about 24 inches between the front of the couch and the end of the slide's side wall...and this is the area the couch flattens out into for a bed. There's also no usable room between the end of the slide and the galley area for permanently mounted bench seats along the walls as this is the area that the slide moves back and forth through (when the slide is in, the easy chair has to be put in front of the refer).

The next time you go look at those well priced slide models, ask to be shown what the interior looks like when the front slide is pushed in for travel. I think you'll be astounded at how the floor area disappears.

The slide models were engineered specifically to provide living room or dinette space at the expense of sleeping space...to essentially make them into small "travel" trailers (for at most 3 people) rather than "camping" trailers. I personally think that trying to reverse that engineering on either of the 2720 slide models to increase the sleeping space would be very difficult. If you need sleeping space, you really should be thinking the regular bed-at-each-end floor plans.

08-05-2003, 01:07 PM	#5
RockyMtnRay TrailManor Master Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 816	Re:Adding 2720 SL Bench Seats Probably not very easily done, leastwise with the 2720SL (couch) model. For one thing the furnace, along with its gas and electrical lines, is built into the base of the couch and if you want heat, you'll have to relocate furnace, gas lines, and electrical. If you leave the couch in place, there's only about 24 inches between the front of the couch and the end of the slide's side wall...and this is the area the couch flattens out into for a bed. There's also no usable room between the end of the slide and the galley area for permanently mounted bench seats along the walls as this is the area that the slide moves back and forth through (when the slide is in, the easy chair has to be put in front of the refer). The next time you go look at those well priced slide models, ask to be shown what the interior looks like when the front slide is pushed in for travel. I think you'll be astounded at how the floor area disappears. The slide models were engineered specifically to provide living room or dinette space at the expense of sleeping space...to essentially make them into small "travel" trailers (for at most 3 people) rather than "camping" trailers. I personally think that trying to reverse that engineering on either of the 2720 slide models to increase the sleeping space would be very difficult. If you need sleeping space, you really should be thinking the regular bed-at-each-end floor plans.