Hi everyone new here

[Soundale]

Just bought my first 5th wheel and on my first trip my sink covers ( don’t know what there really called) came out of there places big one on the floor and little one in the big sink. How do you keep them in place on traveling days?

 

[Mikendebbie]

Welcome to the forum. Your post prompted me to think about our sink covers, and I am pretty sure they have been in the storage slot under the sink for a very long time! DW does not use them. Our sinks serve to hold last minute items we failed to put up in their proper storage spots when we pack up to leave…dog bowls, hand soap dispensers, a hand towel, roll of paper towels, etc.

To answer your question about the sink covers staying in place during travel…slow down!…and even then there are no guarantees! There is an overused phrase in this forum and others, but it is true…there is a category 6 earthquake going on to your fifth wheel while you drive down the cratered highways of these United States.

 

[scottandsusan]

We keep our under the sink. Our's is a rear kitchen so they wouldn't have a chance of staying in place during travel.

 

[Soundale]

Welcome to the forum. Your post prompted me to think about our sink covers, and I am pretty sure they have been in the storage slot under the sink for a very long time! DW does not use them. Our sinks serve to hold last minute items we failed to put up in their proper storage spots when we pack up to leave…dog bowls, hand soap dispensers, a hand towel, roll of paper towels, etc.

To answer your question about the sink covers staying in place during travel…slow down!…and even then there are no guarantees! There is an overused phrase in this forum and others, but it is true…there is a category 6 earthquake going on to your fifth wheel while you drive down the cratered highways of these United States.

Thanks Mike pretty much what I do. I would use them since day one and I’m retired so I don’t drive that fast to begin with. Thanks again.

 

[MandK]

Welcome to the forum. I’ll share a tip I learned the hard way about the sink cover storage. Make sure they are stored so that they can’t move back and forth every time you step on the accelerator or hit the brakes. We don’t use the covers so we never even took them out of the storage spot. After two years we noticed the sink drain was slightly leaking. Yep, repeated tapping of the covers against the drain pipe during transit eventually got it leaking. I put a piece of wood in with the covers to take up the extra space….haven’t touched them since.
Also, be sure to remove the glass plate from the microwave before traveling.
Enjoy your new rig.

 

[BeckCass]

We keep ours under the sink like everyone else, we just take them out when we need more countertop space.

 

[Rene T]

We use to put ours in the oven. When the kitchen slide out refracts, It goes up and the island cabinets almost touch the oven door so they can’t come out.
We never took the microwave turntable out. The door had a latch so it never opened

 

[DutchmenSport]

I think it really depends on the floor plan of your camper. If you have a rear kitchen and the sink is along the rear wall, you probably have no chance of successful travel with the covers in the sink as the rear end of the camper bounces unbelievable up and down, things go flying in the air.

If you have a front kitchen, most likely, you'll never have that problem as the front the camper doesn't have near the upward bounce like in the back.

We have a mid kitchen. The sink is just forward of the axles about a foot. Mine have never jumped off the sink.

If yours jumps off, then the best thing you can do is to put them in storage while in transit as others stated above in previous posts. Either that, or tape them down shut with some very strong tape.