Installing a New Door

I'm about to hang a new door on this camper that I got from Lippert RV. And there's a lot of cool stuff that's gonna come along with having a new door. One, a really nice shade that's gonna go on this window, that's gonna give me some good privacy inside the camper. Another is a protector that, if you travel with a dog and your dog has put its nose through the screen once or twice, or more, you're really gonna appreciate this upgrade. And possibly the one I like the most is this upgrade, which is gonna automatically close the screen door on the camper.

So if you're in the habit of having to constantly tell the kids, "Shut the door, shut the door." And the screen door gets opened and left open, that's gonna take care of that. So first step in this process is applying some putty in the opening here in order to keep this thing weathertight. And once that's in, you can hang the door. This is cool. And it's neat, the way that it just slips into the opening, like it's supposed to.

Follow the instructions on the caulking procedure. Very, very, very clear. And doing a little positioning check here. And then we're ready for a couple of screws. Now again, just follow the owner's manual, follow the instructions.

There's a specific sequence of events in which, during which, for which, the screws go in. Pretty simple. I'm just gonna double-check the door here, and then run the rest of the screws in. Again, remember I said to read the owner's manual? Follow the instructions for this.

Look at that. And our screen door. That is so cool. I'm thrilled with this. I am so happy with this.

All right, let me, I'm gonna finish driving screws, I'm gonna finish screwing around, and then we will come back and accessorize. First accessory I'm gonna hit on is the Screen Defender. This is just what it sounds like. What a great name. It's a very robust screen that's gonna go in front of the screen.

So you can imagine, if the screen door were closed and you had an animal, probably a dog, that was nosing against this all the time, it's gonna probably press through that screen. You may have had this happen to you on screen doors, in your camper and or in your house. So this is crazy simple. Insert. Swing it up.

A couple of spring loaded connectors there. And now, when your dog comes up to this, woof woof , looking at that squirrel outside or another dog, it's gonna end up up against this instead of your mosquito net, saving that mosquito screen. Next, on the Screen Shot, what that's gonna do is go on the door here and then that's gonna help keep the screen door closed. So install is simple. You get it into the door, and then to keep it in this position, a couple of screws will retain it.

And then what makes this work is this. That's connected to a spring on the other end. So next up, this is gonna come around, get fastened into the jam. There. So now the benefit to this is...

"Kids, close the screen door!" You won't be yelling that any more. Our next door upgrade is actually on the door on the back of the camper. This is where, the three bunk beds were in here, and it's gonna end up being set up for the new bedroom back here. So I've got the old window out of this. And that was an old weird piece of just like pebbly frosted glass.

I've got a new Lippert frame. And that's gonna go into that existing opening. I didn't have to modify the opening at all. And it's got sealant on it. So we're set there.

Now it came with smoked glass, smoked tempered glass. So next, we can do the glass and the other frame component from the inside. And this is cool. It doesn't take any screws to put this together. This part has got components that will barb into, snap into, this component, and that's what's gonna bind everything together.

This is my new glass. The sealant, again, is already in place. And then... You can hear as I'm squeezing, tch-tch-tch, that's those barbs, there, there. That's pretty cool.

Okay. Now that that's in, we can get shady. Check this out. Tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch-tch. So that new Thin Shade just slips into that frame.

There are binders top and bottom, catches top and bottom, to hold it in place. That's crazy cool. On the back door we've got our new window and that cool shade. Here, on the main door, We've got our Screen Defender. That's gonna keep Rover from pushing his or her nose through the mosquito net.

We're also self-closing on that screen door. This is such a nice upgrade. And simple to do. So, I think that we can close the door on this chapter on the RV. I love that.