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Originally Posted by tomrasdf
...dual pane RV windows...necessary...
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2003, for our ExpeditionVehicle, we mounted 3010 (three feet wide by a foot tall) dual-pane sliders designed for a stand-still house.
We mounted these at our eye-level standing inside, about eight feet above pavement.
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We thought the dual-pane would be resistant to temperature fluctuations, and somewhat mitigate noise transfer.
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Real-world:
To vent humidity and odors, our windows are open 24/7/360°, so that eliminates one advantage.
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b)
Second point... noise abatement:
Our walls are much bigger than our windows (structurally, I think this's a good idea).
Accordingly, we insulated with:
* adhesive-back acoustic against the wall, then
* one-inch pink-board, another air-gap, then
* two-inch foil-side poly.
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You ask my experience.
We would do this again.
But, experience comes at a cost.
For about a half-century, we full-time lived-aboard a wide variety of conversions.
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c)
We think yuge picture windows are impossible to insulate.
You could hang thick curtains to block some of the temperature transfer, but that eliminates the view... one of the purposes of a yuge window.
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An aside:
We tend to be private people.
We treasure our solitude.
We like the ability to choose the time and the folk for our outside interactions.
Small windows set high help accomplish our goal.
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A yuge picture window invites peepers to constantly investigate our inside activities.
And we think that is a bad idea.
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d)
You ask about 'RV windows'.
We are pretty sure anything 'RV' has no place on a realistic conversion.
Based on our experience, anything from the 'RV industry' is barely adequate for cheap disposable RecreateVehicles designed by committee with only one consideration -- short-term profit at all costs.
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If I wanted that, I would acquire that.
But, I do not, so I build and convert.
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