Post by wisconsinjoe on Jan 17, 2015 16:19:37 GMT -8
Don't know where to put this thread, because it fits both inside and outside. We have a short door and a dropped floor in our Friendship Vacationaire. I can't tell you how many times I thwacked my noggin going in and coming out of that darn door. Once inside, there is a little stoop then a drop down of 9 inches. I have hit my head so hard on the 5 foot door, that I then fell into the dropped floor. On the way out, even though you KNOW that door is there, it is even easier to hit your head because you are rising up from the dropped floor. Adding in a few beers does not help matters. After one camping trip where I hit my head THREE TIMES (once while trying to burp my infant grandson), I ended up with a nice bleeding wound on my bald head that didn't look any prettier with a a bandage on it. Something had to be done. And wearing a Green Bay Packers cheese hat was NOT the solution.
I removed the top plywood trim piece, curve-shaped a poplar board in that profile, and glued on a piece of dense foam (from a section of flooring stress mat). It was sized so the foam came just below the aluminum screen door to provide soft protection when entering as well as leaving. I predrilled screw holes that I re-located after the foam was glued on by poking an awl hole big enough for a screw driver. You cannot believe what an improvement this has been.
I removed the top plywood trim piece, curve-shaped a poplar board in that profile, and glued on a piece of dense foam (from a section of flooring stress mat). It was sized so the foam came just below the aluminum screen door to provide soft protection when entering as well as leaving. I predrilled screw holes that I re-located after the foam was glued on by poking an awl hole big enough for a screw driver. You cannot believe what an improvement this has been.
