Our Almost Signed Off 5.0TA Build Sheet - Page 2

nathanj04011 · 03-12-2016, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Charlie & Lucy

Congratulations Nathan and Tammy on your build sheet! You've done great! Looking forward to seeing your trailer when we are all in New England!

Thanks guys! I can't believe its just a little over 3 months to go! We will definitely need to camp together at least once to do a side by side comparison!

Greggo · 03-12-2016, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by PGDriver

Satellite receiver shelf and extra coaxial cable and outside jack to connect the dish?

Cheers
Doug

Tell me about the satellite receiver shelf. I'm wrapping up my build too and puzzled where to put it. I was pondering stashing it inside the overhead with my blu-ray. Better idea?

Greg

PGDriver · 03-12-2016, 10:24 AM

Hi Greg

Reace built a nice shelf just under the foreword cabinet beside the door. He also ran a coaxial cable from there to the drivers side of the trailer for me to connect my dish to. Will post a photo in a while.

Cheers
Doug

PGDriver · 03-12-2016, 11:10 AM

Hi Greg

Here is the set up I have.

Here is the outside dish connection the other is for the campground cable which is installed as part of the Jack antenna package.

I later ran a hdmi cable up through the above cabinet and from there connect it to the TV.
Hope this helps.

Cheers

Doug

Greggo · 03-12-2016, 03:23 PM

Doug,

Very nice. I'm trying to figure out a nice, clean install for my dvd and sat tv receiver. I'm wondering if there might be room above the drawer stack in my new 21 for a similar shelf. So far, the tv is centered on the wall and I have a mod happening to move the plugs to the wall behind the tv. Stereo will be moved 24" toward the front and 90 degrees from the wall, not angled. I'm going to have power in the overhead cabinet and the outside sat connector will be terminating up there.

Food for thought.

Greg

ethanallen2 · 03-13-2016, 05:57 PM

Nathan and Tammy: Congrats on your build sheet. We are behind you, Aug 12,'16 for our 5.0. May I ask where did you purchase your Horst probes? The manufacturer in the US or from the Canadian source? We have spent a lot of time on our flooring and countertop selection, finding a flooring alternate has been tough. Several Home Depots & Lowes in our area (San Marcos, 40 m north of San Diego, CA) have not had very good sample selections available. Did you select your upholstery from the ETI source? My only comment on your Build Sheet (other than your are really getting close!) is your choice of 2 LED Captains Lamps in the Dinette area. We had considered that and I mentioned it to '15 5.0 owner and he mentioned with Led overhead you didn't need them. Now I can't find anything in my notes on the source. Someone may give us a reply if they see this. Good Luck and Happy Travels.
-Ethan

**Donna D.** · 03-13-2016, 06:18 PM

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Originally Posted by ethanallen2

My only comment on your Build Sheet (other than your are really getting close!) is your choice of 2 LED Captains Lamps in the Dinette area. We had considered that and I mentioned it to '15 5.0 owner and he mentioned with Led overhead you didn't need them.

I have them and like them! I'm a reader. It's nice to burrow back in the corner of the dinette and have a "spot light" on a book. There's a difference to me for have a light for seeing and one for reading. YMMV

nathanj04011 · 03-13-2016, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by ethanallen2

Nathan and Tammy: Congrats on your build sheet. We are behind you, Aug 12,'16 for our 5.0. May I ask where did you purchase your Horst probes? The manufacturer in the US or from the Canadian source? We have spent a lot of time on our flooring and countertop selection, finding a flooring alternate has been tough. Several Home Depots & Lowes in our area (San Marcos, 40 m north of San Diego, CA) have not had very good sample selections available. Did you select your upholstery from the ETI source? My only comment on your Build Sheet (other than your are really getting close!) is your choice of 2 LED Captains Lamps in the Dinette area. We had considered that and I mentioned it to '15 5.0 owner and he mentioned with Led overhead you didn't need them. Now I can't find anything in my notes on the source. Someone may give us a reply if they see this. Good Luck and Happy Travels.
-Ethan

Hi Ethan, or is it Allen?

We got our probes from Amazon.com. The black probes were $43 and the gray were $36.

The fabric we got from Sailrite, although we looked at our local Joanns. We just liked the pattern we saw on SailRite.

We ended up going to a local flooring store for the flooring, to make sure the flooring we liked on Armstrong's website was really the one we liked. Which it was. Several others we thought we might like, in person, we didn't. We then ordered the flooring from Pioneer Building Supply in Chilliwack. Get a decent exchange rate and there was no shipping, and Escape will go get it when they need it.

We decided on the lights in back because my wife likes to sew, quilt and do needlepoint, so thats why we went bright lights back there. We sure have over-analyzed our build sheet, but we think we will be happy with our decisions.

Good luck!!

NW Cat Owner · 03-13-2016, 06:24 PM

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Originally Posted by ethanallen2

Nathan and Tammy: Congrats on your build sheet. We are behind you, Aug 12,'16 for our 5.0. May I ask where did you purchase your Horst probes? The manufacturer in the US or from the Canadian source? We have spent a lot of time on our flooring and countertop selection, finding a flooring alternate has been tough. Several Home Depots & Lowes in our area (San Marcos, 40 m north of San Diego, CA) have not had very good sample selections available. Did you select your upholstery from the ETI source?(snip)

While I'm not Nathan (thank goodness

), I can tell you that you can get Horst probes off Amazon. I got mine from this place and they were a bit less than Amazon's price:

Horst Mircacle Probes - Get accurate reading on your RV's holding tanks

Do you have any large flooring stores in your area? That's where I saw way more flooring samples than Home Depot/Lowe's had. I also contacted the mfgr and asked for a sample of the flooring. They sent me a large piece that goes in their sample books. It was great seeing that larger size and made it nice for holding it against our countertop samples (you can order multiple samples from Formica) and fabric sample.

For our fabric, I bought a yard off Amazon (thanks to Donna D for that suggestion

) after viewing a bazillion of them at a local upholstery shop and getting free samples from some online places. I ended up ordering more from the same company I bought the yard off ebay from - Patio Lane. Someone else on the forum bought from them and had it shipped directly to ETI for not very much money. I plan to drive my roll up there, but you won't have that option. When I called Patio Lane, they matched the ebay price, I bought enough so there was free shipping and they also had a coupon sale going on, so I got it for a really good price (and less than from a Canadian source, taking the then-current exchange rate into consideration).

Outdoor Upholstery Fabric, Furniture, and More - Patio Lane

I found picking out the countertop, flooring and fabric to be the hardest decisions on our trailer. So, good luck with your decisions!

Rossue · 03-13-2016, 06:25 PM

To me the ceiling LED lamps are too bright for reading. I often turn the captains light to face backwards to have sort of an indirect light (when not reading).

NW Cat Owner · 03-13-2016, 06:27 PM

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Originally Posted by Donna D.

I have them and like them! I'm a reader. It's nice to burrow back in the corner of the dinette and have a "spot light" on a book. There's a difference to me for have a light for seeing and one for reading. YMMV

yeah, the brighter the light for reading, the better, in my opinion! Good to know they work great for reading as we ordered them in the dinette area as well.

NW Cat Owner · 03-13-2016, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by nathanj04011

(snip) We then ordered the flooring from Pioneer Building Supply in Chilliwack. Get a decent exchange rate and there was no shipping, and Escape will go get it when they need it. (snip)

We've already ordered our flooring and sink from Pioneer and they're already there. Even though we won't need them for months. I tripled checked that it's okay with Pioneer to hold them for that long and they said that was fine. They're well used to doing that.

Another comment on upholstery - again, a tip from Donna D.

She mentioned that upholstery can be discontinued every year or so, so I took that to heart when I finally found the color I wanted. I ordered it right away and it's been stashed in my attic for the past 5-6 months or so. It took me long enough to settle on what I liked, I figured I wasn't going to run the risk of it being discontinued by the time we ordered the trailer, much less needed it for the trailer. So, yeah, I had it was before we were able to order the trailer. I figured I could live with another countertop or flooring option if they were discontinued, but not that fabric!

Rossue · 03-13-2016, 07:41 PM

On flooring- it seems it would be expensive to ship product from US to Canada. We spent a good amount of time at Pioneer but couldn't make a decision. When we got home we discovered that samples here are often quite different from what they can get up there from the same mfg. Learned this after spending more time here before we gave it up. Not sorry as with carpet runners down it is not that noticeable and if we do it later we can just go over the top of the existing and use much less material than originally when they go throughout.

nathanj04011 · 03-13-2016, 09:18 PM

Apparently, or maybe I should say hopefully, I sent a link of the exact flooring we wanted to Pioneer and they responded back that they could get the flooring. I sincerely hope its the same...

Greg A · 03-13-2016, 09:40 PM

Pioneer was very helpful to us with the flooring. They had a large sample piece of the one we wanted and the salesperson took a bunch of pics of the sample on her phone and emailed them to us which sealed the deal. She also knew the trailers well and we asked her opinion of how she thought it would work with the interior. She absolutely said it would be a great choice, so we ordered it. When ETI got it, Crystal also thought it would be awesome which gave us one more check before installing it. The flooring did turn out to be what we were hoping.

GregandTeresa · 03-14-2016, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Donna D.

I have them and like them! I'm a reader. It's nice to burrow back in the corner of the dinette and have a "spot light" on a book. There's a difference to me for have a light for seeing and one for reading. YMMV

We opted for the captains reading lights because I tend to go to bed earlier than Teresa, and she likes to read at night. That way she can be at the small dinette reading with just one of the smaller lights on.

LeonW · 03-14-2016, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Donna D.

I have them and like them! I'm a reader. It's nice to burrow back in the corner of the dinette and have a "spot light" on a book. There's a difference to me for have a light for seeing and one for reading. YMMV

I love the captain's lights, for exactly the same reason.

I ended up getting some "warmer" bulbs from Amazon. They have a yellower light that I find easier on my eyes.

Classic · 09-10-2016, 09:53 AM

Thanks for sharing your 5.0 TA Build Sheet! We are just now seriously considering ordering our own 5.0 TA and this will help. We had a tour of the 10th ever built 5.0 TA by the very nice owner and were impressed with the coach. Very good use of space, even better use that our 24' Arctic Fox 5th wheel (Except for the couch slide and dry bath of course) I am sure I will have some more questions for the forum before we actually take the plunge..... Thanks again!

nathanj04011 · 09-10-2016, 11:21 AM

You are welcome! We've had it almost 3 months now and I have to say, we don't regret getting anything we did, nor do we wish we had gotten anything we didn't...ok, so the only thing we didn't get, practically was the foam insulation, but still. We love it!

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