Specific Recommendations for Improving TM

I went to the Arizona RV show last week and looking at other RVs, gave me some ideas on improvements that IMO would add greatly to the TrailManor experience.

1. My wife hates the oven. She cannot light it. I have to lay on the floor to light the oven. If I would have known that there is an upgrade for the stove with a piezo knob to light the oven and burners, I would have ordered it at the time that we purchased our new TrailManor.

2. Drawers instead of doors on the kitchen cabinets. Also, drawers instead of a door under the bathroom sink. That door cannot fully open. Drawers would solve that problem. Also, I have heard of complaints from people of having to bend over or get on their knees in order to reach into the rear of the cabinets. Drawers would solve that problem.

3. A tilt drawer under the kitchen sink to store washing material. Relocate the water heater switch and the sewer, fresh water and battery indicators in the bathroom.

4. A small builtin electric heater in the bathroom.

5. Plastic or fiberglass to surround three walls in the bathtub, with flexible waterproof seals on places that fold. Only one shower curtain would be necessary. Also would one have more elbo room.

[Bill]

Originally Posted by genesc

I have to lay on the floor to light the oven. If I [had] known that there is an upgrade for the stove with a piezo knob to light the oven and burners, I would have ordered it at the time that we purchased our new TrailManor.

Interesting thought. Who told you about the option? I wonder if a piezo lighter could be retrofitted?

To check on this, I contacted Atwood about the model of the oven that is used in the TM. They told me that there is a piezo option for the stovetop burners, but not yet for the oven. They "are still designing that". The manual that came with the oven appears to support this statement - it shows piezo elements for the stovetop, but not for the oven.

Actually, the problem would never have come up if Atwood (or Suburban) had just reversed the burner assembly, putting the pilot light in the front instead of way at the back. I never understood why they built it that way.

Bill