Hanging clothes...

neveser · 05-15-2015, 03:12 PM

The clothes rods in the front cabinets on the sides of the bed are not cutting it. When we hang clothes, they rest on the bottom of the cabinet which kind of defeats the purpose. Needless to say the wife is displeased, especially since the cabinet in our old RV worked fine.

What she would like to do is add a rod in the back storage cabinet in the bathroom. The cabinet is huge and there is a lot of wasted space in there. It would be perfect to hang clothes in. We have a 19FBPR and I would imagine that many keystone trailers feature this same large cabinet in the bathroom.

Anyone every attempt anything like this?

GaryWT · 05-15-2015, 05:46 PM

We do not have any cabinets in our Premier bathroom so can't help with that. We had a cabinet in the hall outside the bathroom but we took the rod out and put in shelfs for towels and bedding etc. My wife hung a shelf thing in her closet to put clothes. When we camp, we do not bring anything that needs to hang, everything is folded; jeans, shorts, tshirts, sweatshirts etc. things that need to hang stay home for work.

If you are adding a rod, just be sure there is something more than the 1/4 inch wall to screw into.

**JRTJH** · 05-16-2015, 04:30 AM

Our Jayco had a rear bathroom with a closet adjacent. We never could get the clothes to "stay on the rod" when travelling. The rear of a travel trailer is the "roughest riding" part and if you do install a rod there, expect the hangers to bounce off the rod during travel. There are ways to stop the rods from bouncing, but until you find what works for you, you'll be changing a "bent bottom" issue for a "crumpled on the floor" issue.

Good Luck.

bsmith0404 · 05-16-2015, 05:31 AM

Cabinet in the bathroom???? What's that?

koko · 05-18-2015, 10:35 AM

Ours is a 2013. We have a huge closet in the bathroom like yours. The top cabinet already has a rod. We purchased a special kind of hanger from CW that keeps the hanger from bouncing off the rod - you know how that rear really bounces. Works perfectly. As far as the cabinets on either side of the bed, we raised the bar ever so slightly. You can't raise it much, because the hangers will run into the slant in the closet even worse than they already do, but you can get a little bit more height. There's at least enough, now, to hang shirts in there without them being bunched up on the closet floor. You also have to use hangers that are really slanted down on the ends (hope that makes sense). Skirts and coats have to go on the special hangers in the top closet in the bathroom.

neveser · 05-19-2015, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by koko

Ours is a 2013. We have a huge closet in the bathroom like yours. The top cabinet already has a rod. We purchased a special kind of hanger from CW that keeps the hanger from bouncing off the rod - you know how that rear really bounces. Works perfectly. As far as the cabinets on either side of the bed, we raised the bar ever so slightly. You can't raise it much, because the hangers will run into the slant in the closet even worse than they already do, but you can get a little bit more height. There's at least enough, now, to hang shirts in there without them being bunched up on the closet floor. You also have to use hangers that are really slanted down on the ends (hope that makes sense). Skirts and coats have to go on the special hangers in the top closet in the bathroom.

When you installed the rod, were you able to go into the frame? I was looking at ours and it looks like the frame piece is too close to the door. You'd end up pushing the hangers in when you closed the door.

If you can take pics of your work it would be much appreciated!

koko · 05-19-2015, 02:42 PM

We couldn't put the rod further out or in, just up. It is about 5 inches higher than it was before. You're right...you can't put it into the frame, and you can't move it up very far because of the slope of the back wall pushing out the hangers even further than it already does. We put it right into the side walls like it was mounted before (same short screws). Even 5 inches made a difference. We only did it on the one side. On the other we hang pants, and they do okay with the lower rod. If you eventually think of a better solution, please let us know - we'd love to have a better set-up but can't come up with any ideas.

neveser · 05-21-2015, 11:31 AM

So your bathroom cabinet already had a rod when you purchased it?

I was thinking something like this would work - http://www.homedepot.com/p/QuikCLOSE...-203219845-_-N

But not that exact unit though. If the frame in the corners on the back of the cabinet is accessible, something could be mounted there the way that thing is. Looks like the white brackets are way to wide on that unit.

koko · 05-21-2015, 12:40 PM

Yes, our bathroom top closet had a rod when we purchased it. If it hadn't, we would have probably put in a spring-loaded rod, although it would be easy to mount a long rod just like the short ones by the beds (that's what ours is). We use that rod for anything that is long, mostly coats and skirts. Because that closet is so huge, we can hang a lot there and still have the other side of the cabinet to stack a 5-drawer Rubbermaid drawer set. I must say, I'm really shocked that yours didn't come with the rod!!!

neveser · 05-28-2015, 07:55 AM

My wife wants to get a spring loaded one for now. I wonder if the rod is supposed to be stock.

Is the rod just mounted into the wall where there's no frame? The frame feels like it's 5 inches away from the doors or so. I don't think it would work out very well mounted so close to the doors.

Just found this on a video from a dealer -

Unfortunately he's using a fish eye lens to record the video.

This is a 2015. I can't imagine there being much difference if any at all between 2014 and 2015. I may have to contact Keystone to see what they say.

BirchyBoy · 05-28-2015, 08:07 AM

OP - try putting a piece of foam between the rod and the ceiling in your closet. This may keep the hangers from bouncing up and off when traveling.

koko · 05-28-2015, 01:45 PM

Here's a picture of the top section of our bathroom closet. I'm pretty sure nothing changed back there between 2013 and 2014.

koko · 05-28-2015, 01:50 PM

Here's a picture of the outside of the bathroom closet. Does yours look like this?

neveser · 05-29-2015, 11:52 AM

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Originally Posted by koko

Here's a picture of the outside of the bathroom closet. Does yours look like this?

Yep. Totally identical. Looks like Keystone overlooked a little something in my camper!

@Birchboy - I don't event have the rod in my rear closet to hang things on. That's how this thing got started.

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