Easy Trailer Washing

[John&Vicki]

It seems like the most work involved in washing the exterior of the trailer is drying things off with a chamois or whatever you use. We were getting ready to head for the Oregon Coast the other day for relief from the Central Oregon heat. I like to hit the toad with a clean TV and trailer and they were both a dusty mess. it was 95 degrees outside and I wasn't feeling motivated. So I did what all lazy people do when they're feeling lazy - I tried to dream up a short cut.

I was trying to think of how to get how of drying the thing after its bath. Otherwise you create a mess of water spots. A guy next door to me used to used a several hundred dollar loud machine when he washed his car. It evidently was a high tech filtering system, and other than the fact that the noise annoyed the hell out of me, it seemed to work fine.

So I thought what if I filtered the water but in a simpler and cheaper way? I use the blue filters for city water at parks and I had just gotten a couple of new cylinders ($15.00). What if I attached one of those to the spigot? Maybe it would filter things sufficiently to avoid drying and avoid water spots.

It worked!!!

As I mentioned, it was hot and the trailer dried quickly, usually a bad thing for forming water spots - but not a water spot to found. Not on the aluminum panels, not even on the glass.

Your mileage may vary. Maybe we have great water to begin. I also have a nice buildup of liquid glass, my favorite "wax" top coat. But no drying and no spots!

Cheers,
John

[CRH]

I put on a rain coat during a hard rain, wash the trailer with car wash soap and a lambs wool mitt, let the rain rinse off the soap, then let it drip dry.