by mezmo » Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:32 am
Hi ghcoe/George,
Interior access from Both sides of the TD is Paramount !
Especially with two occupants. [Personal opinions can vary a
little on this but two doors is the Heavy Favorite, both for safety
and usability/convenience.]
Are you making your own doors ? If so, and the wife wants a
larger window on the one side, just get the window the size you want,
and then build a perimeter frame around its perimeter - thick/wide
enough to allow you to mount the window to It, and then mount hinges
to that to mount that assemblage to the trailer body. If you want it to
look like a window, then just put a handle on the inside of it only, none
on the outside. The window would need to be large enough to Easily
crawl through though, if it's not, then make the trailer body opening
the same as the other/main door and mount the somewhat larger
[compared to the main door's window] window in that. Indeed, it'd
be much easier to make both side's openings the same size and the
main door and the larger window 'carrier' the same size as well - you
only have to 'engineer' one opening and one door blank that way which
you use for both sides.
In my opinion and experience with them, the commercially available RV
escape windows are totally too expensive and never function well or
correctly – if at all. It's a heckuva lot easier to just turn a doorknob or press
down on a lever that you've installed on your self-built escape 'doorwindow'
than it is to try and locate, then fiddle with, and then try to open, the
mechanisms on the commercial escape windows.
Just a recommendation, your decision may vary.
Cheers,
Norm/mezmo
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