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Thank you. I'll discuss this with the spouse and see about making sure there's noting flammable in the vent. Bug nests, bits of leaves... or whatever. Will also read that PDF file when offline. I know when an RV burns it goes up quickly like a mobile home. I also suspect smoking (we're non...

Our house is all electric. No gas or propane here.

We have to buy one or two more then. I only found one in our BRS28. I've looked at the escape windows and at my age I doubt I could make it safely out the master bedroom window. The one in the master bedroom is much too high up off the floor and the ground. To go out head first and fall to...

Thank you. I was almost starting to think I'm the only one with concerns about fires. We don't dry camp too often but when we do I worry when we have to leave the RV. And I've noticed all my worries center around the propane issues - heat, stove, fridge, water heater. The RV is insured, but...

This does make me feel better. Why are there recalls on them then? What is the problem causing recalls? Just wondering........ ???

I've seen it mentioned more than once on www.RV.net and other forums.

Thank you. I'll look for the button and dig the manuals out again. We do turn the gas off once in the campground since we don't cook inside. But on longer trips we often spend the night dry camping somewhere so leave it on for the fridge and to make coffee, and for needed heat.

We have a lot to learn about these travel-trailers. The propane and fridges worry me most. I have to find out how to test the gas alarm to make sure it's working right. How are you people doing that?

I read and hear so much about fridge recalls.... just how dangerous are these RV fridges? We have a Norcold in our North Trail. How often do they cause fires? I'm starting to worry every time we leave the TT at the campground and are gone for a few hours or the afternoon. Our three cats are in...

That looks like ours. I found a pamphlet on awnings in the package from Heartland but it covers 3 different ones. I have no way to tell which one is on our NT. It appears to be the one called "Fixed Flat Pitched Awning." And as I observed at the campground, one arm folded and dumped most of...

I am so glad to read all these posts about awnings dumping the water. We've only gone out camping 5 times with our NT and there was no one close to ask about these electric awnings. They either were tent campers or had the manual awnings, or we had no one close to us. Our favorite COE...

I read another post about the one side giving and the water pouring off. That seems to be what our did that day. Just to be sure I'm going to go through the heavy package of info from Heartland again and see if I can find more information on the awning on the NT TT. Ours did dump the water...

That may be what we have also. I saw one arm bend inward and a load of water poured off the awning. There was no wind. We always brought in our awnings in in the wind. I just went out there and got all the booklets and papers that came with the NT. I'm going through them all again. I'm...

Thanks for the info. I don't think the locking knobs would work on the kind of awning we have. I took a really good look at the arms and pistons. There is no name on the awning or arms that we can see - but they're way above our head. They come straight out. It may be there and just can't be...

We can never know when it's going to rain and we have a lot of stuff we keep under the awning. If we had to move it all back and forth we'd go bananas. If our awning has a slight tilt, we can't see it. When the water gets really full on it, the one arm drops a little and some, not all, of the...

Where is the knob on the electric awnings? All I see are the arms and the piston that pushes the awning out. At no time is the awning within reach to grab it and pull it down. For the same reason we can't put lights on it without using a ladder.

There is no black knob or any kind of knob on the auto-electric-awnings. Just a switch inside the door. There is no arm to pull down like on the manual ones. You must have a manual awning. I was wondering what those of you with non-manual awnings do about the rain water collecting on it...

This is the only Forum that takes so long to respond. How do you tip your awning so it dumps the rain water? Have you had your awning rip due to the weight of rain water collecting on it?

How do I tilt these automatic awnings to dump rain water? We have the BRS28 and no choice as this is the awning that comes with this model. This past weekend it rained while we were gone from the campground for a few hours and we came back to find the awning full of water. Also, can someone...

Thanks for the replies.