Prevent Your RV From Causing A Headache By Installing Some Edge Cushion
Our kids are not RVers (yet) but while visiting with them on Christmas I picked up a good tip for RVers. Our kids have a one year old and also have several pieces of furniture with sharp edges. To protect our precious grand-baby, my son purchased and installed “Kids’ Edge” on the hard edges of the furnature. 
These edge guards are easy to apply and will protect you from bumps and scratches caused by protruding edges in your RV. I’m thinking about putting some of this around my TV cabinet because I’m always bumping my head on it when I enter the coach. Kids’ Edge is made by Cardinal Gates Company and they have two types. One is metal backed designed for a brick hearth around a fireplace but would work well in RV applications. 
The other has adhesive on the back and adheres to wood, plastic and countertop surfaces. The self adhesive type comes in 12 foot rolls and will wrap around a straight or curved surface. To go around 90 degree corners you’ll need to order the pre-made corners. 
My son said he used Super Glue to attach the corners to the straight lengths. The edging and corners come in five colors, light brown, yellow, grey, white and charcoal. You can purchase these from many vendors on the internet. For more information on these products go here Cardinal Gates. On the edge of new technology - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing
These edge guards are easy to apply and will protect you from bumps and scratches caused by protruding edges in your RV. I’m thinking about putting some of this around my TV cabinet because I’m always bumping my head on it when I enter the coach. Kids’ Edge is made by Cardinal Gates Company and they have two types. One is metal backed designed for a brick hearth around a fireplace but would work well in RV applications. 
The other has adhesive on the back and adheres to wood, plastic and countertop surfaces. The self adhesive type comes in 12 foot rolls and will wrap around a straight or curved surface. To go around 90 degree corners you’ll need to order the pre-made corners. 
My son said he used Super Glue to attach the corners to the straight lengths. The edging and corners come in five colors, light brown, yellow, grey, white and charcoal. You can purchase these from many vendors on the internet. For more information on these products go here Cardinal Gates. On the edge of new technology - Jim Twamley, Professor of RVing
posted by Jim Twamley at
12/26/2007 12:20:00 PM
3 Comments:
Our new 2006 5th wheel has sharp edges everywhere. We continuely had black and purple bruises. Well my husband went to Lowe's and purchased the clear strips that go on the corners where you have put wallpaper in a stick home to protect the wallpaper from peeling. They are above our drawers, a place where the tops of our hands are always getting bruised and our arms if we reach far enough into the drawer. The tops of our cabinet facings, where we reach in to get things. Try it, it doesn't prevent the door from shutting. Now we don't tear our skin up. He put a strip also on our back window where the recliners hit it sometimes and skinned up the "contact" paper when we move the recliners up against the wall when we have to move the slides in. Hopefully you can understand. Those strips are great in an RV. They are clear and self adhesive although they don't bend around corners.
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Anonymous, at January 13, 2008 11:14:00 PM PST
After slicing open my head numerous times under the slideouts while accessing the basement I went to walmart and bought some of those thingies the kids play with in the swimming pools or play zorro on dry land. they are like styrofoam, round, about 4 feet long and about 3 inces in diameter, and hollow in the middle.
Split them full lenth, cut them in half, miter for a 90 degree bend in the middle, that is cut out a V shapped piece from the outside to the middle on one side only and then bend into a right angle and push them onto the corners of your slide outs. No more Bloody heads :)
Bebop
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Anonymous, at January 15, 2008 8:32:00 AM PST
Pipe insulation like what you use on your water pipes in the desert work wonders on the edges of the slide outs to stop bruises. Cheap and useful. Hang a flag from them for a reminder not to raise up your head for another bang.
"Headbanger"
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Anonymous, at February 8, 2008 10:39:00 AM PST
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