larry cad wrote:

Nice job Mr. Brown! You can be proud of your work. I also believe that dual pane windows do a lot to keep the RV warm in cold weather and cold in hot weather.

ro_sie wrote:

Great job! I cant believe that window people cant find a better way to seal those windows! Larry Cad, You are correct. double panes do make them warmer. Hanginin, babies can take a lot of time especially if you are being the main daytime care giver. I did my 4 and then took care of grans so moms could work. Love my grands! Still have one with me full time.

Bruce Brown wrote:

^^^ I certainly wouldn't do it that way. Remember, somebody installed it once so it can be done again.

What you're describing sounds exactly like ours was, the one removed shown above. It wasn't any harder to do than the others. The only thing on that one was the weight. It wasn't terrible, you just needed an extra set of hands.

I ended up doing one of the small windows in one slide end - believe it or not that one was the hardest to disassemble.

4x4van wrote:

I watched the video of the DIY repair... Sorry, but mine are much more complicated. The passenger side top pane is above the large slider. The driver side is above the front A-pillar window (also fogged) AND above the driver's door. Many of the repaired windows, even those done by pros rather than DIYers, end up fogging again a year or so down the road. I also don't want to mess with window frames that don't currently leak by removing the entire frame and re-installing/re-sealing.

I'm still trying to determine what the downside of my plan would be?

Bruce Brown wrote:


Can you get a picture of yours?

Yours sounds a little different, however most Class A are something like this;



That one is ours, shown out in an earlier post, now back in. Sure there was more to it than the others but it still wasn't hard, not by a long stretch.

As to the downside of your plan, my thoughts are...

Tempered glass doesn't break easy
Tempered glass doesn't break clean
The panes fit within a frame. Even if you could get it to break clean and easy, you would still need to get within the frame to install the new one.
You also risk breaking both windows if you happen to hit the inside one a little harder than you planned.

Whenever I'm tackling a job like this, something I've never done before, I remind myself someone else did it before me. They're not necessarily smarter than I am, they just have more experience - and they only way I'll ever gain any experience is to do it myself.

So far that's worked out fairly well.