RE: Screen Room Velcro Question

mrflinders · Sep 28, 2003, 07:05 PM

When we purchased our trailer, it came with a screen room. We pulled it out last labor day weekend, and, with the help of a really nice couple at Cachuma Lake, we were able to get thing erected. (The instructions that came with the screen room seemed to be written by an ESL student.) The SR came with an incredible amount of adhesive backed velcro.

My question is this - the edge of the screen room, where it meets the camper, has velcro sewn to it, as to be attached to the trailer at that point. Unfortunaltely, there is nothing there to attach the adhesive backed velcro to except canvas!

How do folks go about making the seal where the screen room meets the canvas? I have considered sewing velcro to the canvas, but I am afraid that I might create water leaks. Anyone have any suggestions? Do AARs have this issue as well, or are they designed to provide a better seal?

Turn Key · Jan 29, 2003, 07:13 PM

mrflinders

Quote(The instructions that came with the screen room seemed to be written by an ESL student.)

Most instruction sheets are[:@][: (]!

tlhdoc · Jan 29, 2003, 07:35 PM

mrflindersYou should have received in the SR kit 2 half zippers with velcro attached in between. Each piece has 2 half zippers, one on each side of the material and there is velcro in the middle. You unzip your zippers on the PU (The zippers that attach the side wall tenting to the bunk end tenting). Then you zipper one of the zipper pieces with velcro on it, into the existing wall. Now if you are looking at the tenting it will be zipper (part PU wall and part piece), velcro and zipper (part piece, part PU wall). I hope you under stand this. If not I can take pictures on the weekend.[

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globalconcepts · Jan 29, 2003, 08:53 PM

mrflindersTracy is correct, you should have a strip of canvas made of two zippers that runs from top to bottom of your sleeping areas on either front side. You should also have a piece that has velco on it as well as two zippers one at each end. That strip traverses the area from front to back (over the wheel wells, around the step, over the river and through the woods-sorry got carried away [8D]. Anyway that piece seals the bottom. Didn t see that mentioned and that is a critical piece in biting bug land.
Dave

rajones315 · Jan 30, 2003, 11:46 AM

mrflindersOne other thought on this is that some screen rooms (Such as mine) come with eyelets on them where you attach those to the trailer. If you hang the screenroom correctly, along the seem, there are eyelets that should line up with rotating D shaped (No sure of the technical name) clips on the trailer. In my case, the velcro along the seem was for wrapping the end around my poles.

Regards

mrflinders · Jan 30, 2003, 12:58 PM

mrflindersI ll take another look at my screen room setup, but I don t remember seeing any zipper strips at all, or eyelets for that matter.........

It was a cheap freebee that the dealer threw in for $50 - maybe I should just order a AAR.

tlhdoc · Jan 30, 2003, 08:45 PM

mrflinders

QuoteORIGINAL: mrflinders

or eyelets for that matter.........

On the Coleman screen rooms there aren t any eyelets that I know of (I have an AAR).

mrflinders · Feb 08, 2003, 11:53 AM

mrflindersWell, I pulled the trailer out and popped it up - and sure enough - my dealer had installed the zipped-on velcro flaps to the trialer s canvas! I don t know how I could have missed them when I had the SR set up last time, but they are there!

Thanks to all for your comments.

tlhdoc · Feb 08, 2003, 02:33 PM

mrflindersGlad you had them and you don t have to go get them.

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