your thoughts on screen rooms

[wavery]

My dining table is on the back side of the PU, so we have the big window to look out.  You can open the panels and then your view is not blocked.

Gotcha.......Our dining table is on the front side, next to the door. I love sitting at breakfast with an unobstructed view of the ocean. In fact, I'm thinking about putting a zipper on the big screen so that I can open that window right up to the outside on a nice day.

[The Tree Top Inn II]

My wife and I love our screen room that we got when we purchased our camper four years ago.  The screen room attaches to our camper's 12 foot awning.  We always use a 9' X 12' mat (bought from Pop-Up Times, of course) under the screen room.  It's a great place to let our dog off leash.  We don't attach the screen room for an overnight trip.  But, we always put it up for a trip of two nights or more.  Our typical trip consists of three nights in NC, SC, or GA, and we always have some kind of insect--whether in the mountains or along the rivers.  The only problem with the screen room for me was a week-long camping trip in the Smokies where it rained for five days.  We had to dry the screen room on our driveway for an entire day back home before putting it away.  But, hey, that's camping--not RVing.  --Scott

[outdoors5]

Thank you for all of the replies.  It has been very helpful.
Here in New England mosquitos can be a problem, in season of course.  I was originaly leaning towards an attached screen room model but I'm now re-thinking the idea and possibly opting for a stand alone screen room instead.  It seems that there are less issues with stand alone models due to what appear to be quick set up models which do not depend on the fragile PU awning.  Still not sure if that is true, so if there is further input feel free to chime in about awning screen rooms vs. stand alone screen rooms.

[brainpause]

your thoughts on screen rooms

1. Skip the Ozark Trail (or other cheap Walmart brand) screen rooms. A million pieces, and difficult to set up. Bought one, set it up in our den, took it back. Bought a Quik-Shade.

2. Love our Quik Shade, even though it doesn't have screen sides. We did buy the panels for the sides, but haven't used them yet. We Tennesseans tend to want shade, and don't mind the bugs.

3. Can't speak to the screen rooms that attach to the camper, as we don't own one.

Larry

[gettingfiesty]

We bought our camper used and it included an awning and the screen room attachment.  After the first trip, when we figured it out, we wouldn't be without it.  My guys like to watch baseball, so the TV goes out there and we hang out in the evenings.   We have an indoor/outdoor carpet that we put in there as well and it is now our extra room.  

The only bad thing--it is musty smelling when we first open it, but weather permitting, I hope to lay it out in the driveway this weekend and scrub it up nicely.  

[Gone-Camping]

I had one with my first PU....it was actually a Winnebago AAR that the previous owner had adapted for use with the PU.... I got to use it one time, the second day there (Camp Hatteras) a huge storm blew through and tore my AAR to shreds....nearly turned over the whole trailer (there was another PU there that did get blown over). That was my only deal with the AAR...

[tlhdoc]

We bought our camper used and it included an awning and the screen room attachment. After the first trip, when we figured it out, we wouldn't be without it. My guys like to watch baseball, so the TV goes out there and we hang out in the evenings. We have an indoor/outdoor carpet that we put in there as well and it is now our extra room.
 
The only bad thing--it is musty smelling when we first open it, but weather permitting, I hope to lay it out in the driveway this weekend and scrub it up nicely.

They can really add some much needed room to the camper.

[tlhdoc]

I had one with my first PU....it was actually a Winnebago AAR that the previous owner had adapted for use with the PU.... I got to use it one time, the second day there (Camp Hatteras) a huge storm blew through and tore my AAR to shreds....nearly turned over the whole trailer (there was another PU there that did get blown over). That was my only deal with the AAR...

I have found that the AAR tends to make the awning and the top of the PU much more stable.  Hope I am never in that kind of wind.

[drrusk]

I absolutely LOVE our screen room--but then I am very sensitive to insect bites.  With small kids and all their 'stuff' it basically doubled our camper size and gave us room to have things 'inside'.  It also serves as a great 'buffer' to keep insects out of the trailer when the kids are in and out of the trailer all the time

We have the pop-up size screen house that attaches with velcro to the awning and the side of the trailer (from mom-in-law--she didn't want to mess with it.)  
The screen takes up less room than the awning and no additional poles to store.

When we upgraded to a travel trailer, I added screen and velcro to make it long enough to fit on that too.   When we sold the pop up--hubby kept that awning and screen and said "don't let me sell this or get rid of this"  and now we are back to a pop up and are looking forward to putting it up with the camper.

[Gone-Camping]

Here are a couple pics of my Winnebago AAR... First one is a side view while set-up in my driveway...
 

 
This one is a view from inside, picture was taken the night before it was torn to shreds in that storm (we think it was a water spout that came ashore)...
 

 
And last is outside looking in (with nephew sitting there)...