fulltimin
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One of the annoying things in some motor homes are the steps. Many of them take up room inside the coach, that makes it annoying to use that space when the door is closed.
Why? Some travel trailers and fifth wheels have all of the steps outside the trailer, and the floor is flat inside the door.
I think I will be doing that with this rebuild. Putting the steps outside and having the floor flat just inside the door will allow that area to be used temporarily with a chair, or something else, without any danger of "falling into the hole" inside the door. Lol
If anyone has a good reason why that should NOT be done, feel free to educate me, before I do it.
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jmaotto
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You will have a high climb to enter and a long way down when you stop on the road.
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Jim@HiTek
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Hmmm. You'd need an industrial strength set of slides to attach the stairs to. 300 lbs each. The stairs would need to collapse of course. Four stairs ought to do it. Then there would need to be a cover of some sort to keep road debris from gumming up the works. And finally, the whole assembly would need to be electrically extended and retracted so you don't have to jump outside when you stop somewhere, with an actuating switch at hand level outside to get back inside.
Doable, but not inexpensive. It's probably easier to build a stairwell inside the house. And attach a 1 or 2 step electrical stair assembly underneath.
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fulltimin
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jmaotto wrote:You will have a high climb to enter and a long way down when you stop on the road.
The height from the floor of the motor home to the ground won't change. The only thing that changes is, the first step will be outside, instead of inside the motor home.
That's why I asked the question, in case there is something I am missing in my thought process.
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What is your ground to floor level distance in inches?
Mine is 16" and one step outside is great and works well. Admittedly, my floor is lower than most units but that is one of the things I really like about the coach. One step and I am inside putting the groceries down on the counter.
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fulltimin
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Currently the floor is 32" from the ground. There is one step inside, which is about 21 1/2" off the ground, with a 10 1/2" step up to the floor level, and a single step outside, which is about 10 1/2" off the ground.
So, basically, we have 1 step outside, 1 step from the outside into the motor home, and then another inside up to floor level.
Below is a setup from a 5th wheel. This 5th wheel is 37" from the ground up to the floor level inside.
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/step2.jpg)
That is where my thought process came from, not that I am interested in using the same setup as on the 5th wheel. The steps obviously have to go out first, when I am inside, as I am not jumping 32" onto the ground to pull out the steps. Lol. Exercise is good, but, I just "ain't" doing that!
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fulltimin
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Here is another idea, that I think would be cool inside the motor home......A little wood stove, maybe something similar to this...........
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/woodstove.jpg)
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fulltimin
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Or then again, maybe a propane heater, similar to this.........
![[image]](http://paddleupstream.com/mohorebuild/propaneheater.jpg)
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Brian in Michigan
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As far as the step/non step is concerned how tall will the door be? Do you have that ceiling height?
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fulltimin
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Brian in Michigan wrote:As far as the step/non step is concerned how tall will the door be? Do you have that ceiling height?
I do have enough height. There won't be much extra space between the top of the door and the header over top of it.
The step we have now, has about 10 1/2" high steps, which is kind of inconvenient, so I was thinking, of maybe going off the deep end and completely re-doing the steps.
That's why I was looking for suggestions.
Thank you.
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