Our screen door is finished. We found that piano hinges gave so much strength it was possible to just use the screen frame itself as the door. It weighs next to nothing. It has not been field tested, but so far so good. OK Let's see how the photos do:

less filling
oppps
really super nice

Wow Maggie
Looks good. Geez, I seem to remember someone saying they couldn't build one! Now who was that? :wink
Nancy

Thanks guys. Nancy: This door is neither square or true. We count on it binding to keep it closed! Thanks for all the help. I still don't think we could make one like yours.:wave

if we can get maggie o :lol out camping!! lol one small step at a time :lol
neither square or true i think that discribes an egg to a tee :ola

Al, you're funny. I can't go camping...I have a trailer to work on!

like wise but iam really thinking of going up to onterio in 2 weeks.
Always someting to do . i just glassed over the back of my front window rock guard and iam avioding takeing the refrigerator gas regulator apart. but i hear the weather is cooler in the north far north lol keep up the good work ;)

:wave

Maggie O.,

I'll give you more shower details if you give me more screen door construction details

I would be happy to tell you all about screen door construction. I am an expert now thanks to Nancy D. She was kind enough to email beautiful diagrams. The only thing I did differently is skip the whole wooden door frame. We made two screens from that do it yourself stuff at Lowes and screwed the piano hinges right into the frame. If you want I might be able to send Nancy's instructions to you, if she doesn't mind.

Go ahead and send them Maggie.
Nancy

Dear Maggie O.,

My thanks to you and Nancy D.

I like the simple effective approach you have taken. No doubt I will do something similar.

Have you decided on having a external shower yet?

Hi Tom,

I love your shower idea. We have a few too many irons in the fire to tackle anything else right now. Thank you for satisfying my curiousity. The infos been filed for future dreaming.

Maggie/Nancy
I would love to get the instructions too.
Thanks :wave

Hi Lainey,
I sent the info.

Thanks a lot Maggie! :)

On my first Scamp I too built a screen door using stuff from lowes
lots cheaper and worked very well. you should be proud of the one you constructed looks great.

Princess Auto has screening available in their surplus here for $1.00 per foot (36" wide), is this a good price?

YES:wave

Hi everyone. I was reading through the posts regarding the screen door and saw the post regarding an outdoor shower. I would love to hear more about that. I have been admiring one on the Prairie Bolerama site - Brad and Jen's. Sounds like a great idea.

TIA.:cheers

see the thread lots of scamp modifications.

Maggie, would you be willing to post your plans for the screen door for everyone?? It looks like you did a GREAT job. We have a screen now, but if we ever wanted to replace it, (we have big dogs, and they have a thing about squirrels. so far so good) I would love to have the plans handy. It looks great.

I'll post some info as soon as I can.

Hi,
This kind of screen door is really easy to make. You just buy do it yourself screen framing, two sets of plastic corners, screen, & spline. We bought four 30inch piano hinges. We made sure the metal screw plate on the hinges was the same width as the screen frame. We counted the screw holes and got enough tiny screws to attach the hinges. The screws that came with the hinges were too long, and would have gone right thru the screen framing. We made two long narrow doors. We used aluminum screen since we just happened to have it. It is nice and strong, but it is rather sharp around the edges. Our door is about 64 inches. Since there is only 60 inches of hinge per door there is a space in the middle. This is where we attatched a leather handle, and a knob on the inside. We put a strap near the bottom to pull it snug against the door frame. We noticed the door sort of binds against the floor and thought, "works for us". (The last photo shows the door does not shut square.) We put a small piece of velcro at the top to keep it closed. We may add a little strap at the top to really pull it into the velcro, but it works without it. I think if we wanted to use this door in serious mosquito country we'd probably have to put something along the inside top. We built a wooden door frame to attatch these doors to which is screwed onto the fiberglass. We are not carpenters so I'll leave tips for doing that part to the experts. That's it.

Those are beautiful details, Maggie!

:ola

Whew what a relief. I had trouble loading those pics, and when I saw your post, Mary, I thought, Oh no! I've been busted by the moderator!

But, but, but... they're beautiful pics!! :sunny Nice composition, nice sizes, perfect resolution (sharp).

I'm sorry they were a problem to upload (we're working on improving our system for that) but they're worth your efforts!

Okay, for you, two cheers (waves):

:ola :ola

Great job:wave

Hi: just checked into this site, Think that I will be useing it some. We have a 13 ft trail Mite. Havent seen any on the web. It is a 1973 It has been over the hill and well used. The people we got it from took it to Bonzi shows. Had started redoing it when he passed away. Needs everything but new tires and apoulstry. Mainly I was wondering where to get replacement windows. My Back and front are Plastic. Faye

Hi, Faye! Welcome to the Molded Fiberglass RV Travel Trailer Owners' Group. :wave

I don't know anything about the Trail Mite trailers. Can you describe yours, or, better yet, do you have a picture?

:sunny

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