261bh stove and fridge on the slide?

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New to the forum. We are thinking about buying the 261bh. We have looked at so many floor plans and have seen a fridge on the slide, but not one with the stove and fridge. Was wondering if I should be concerned about the heat and ventilation from both items? Thanks for your time.
 
New to the forum. We are thinking about buying the 261bh. We have looked at so many floor plans and have seen a fridge on the slide, but not one with the stove and fridge. Was wondering if I should be concerned about the heat and ventilation from both items? Thanks for your time.
We have stove, fridge and lounge in our slide and no issues.

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Look long enough and you will see there are more floorplans with both in on slide than not.
 
Welcome to the forum. My last 3 campers had the stove next to the fridge, no problems.

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IMO the only real downside to the stove on the slide in the 261BH is that if you step close to the stove while cooking you end up kicking the floor of the slide. That may not be true on all campers that have the stove in the slide, but on the 261BH it has to sit back far enough so that it doesn't interfere with the kitchen cabinets since they're directly to the right of it.
 
Thanks guys on the opinions and the quick responses. We pulled the trigger on it and the first voyage this weekend!
 
Congratulations! IMO the 261BH has one of the best floor plans in this size range. We're really happy with ours so far.
 
Thanks guys, Maiden voyage was great minus the water pump not working. I couldn’t hear it start up and looked for it and couldn’t find it in the trailer. The only place I didn’t look was under the bunk because the plywood was screwed down. Besides that the family had a great time. In contact with the dealer and GD and will get it looked at next week. Dealer thinks they screwed up on the winterizing.
 
It's behind the plywood panel at the back of the trailer under the bunk. You have to unscrew a couple screws. The valves are likely in winterize mode and the pump isn't too loud if it's only pumping air, it's possible you might have trouble clearly hearing it. Ours was shipped the same way, I had to set the valves correctly and then run the various faucets to get the pink stuff out.
 
I'm sure they'll get it straightened out quickly.

FWIW, the other end of the winterization stuff is under the dinette seat (should be a sticker on the front seat). Two screws and lift that plywood, pump is under there, and winterization hose is there. Between those valves, and the valves at the water heater in the back, should be just about everything you need to deal with routinely.

We're having a problem with ours -- the tank has to be very full or the pump sucks air. It's weird. Totally full and it's fine. But as it runs down, it starts sucking air while it's still full enough to read 4 LEDs on the status panel. That's my project tomorrow -- to see if I can see an obvious reason the pump is sucking air. The pickup is next to the gravity fill tube, both easily accessible through a hole in the floor underneath the pump.

But I gotta say, between this, the hard-to-close door, GFCI tripping microwave circuit, and slide that shakes & bangs as it goes in and out ...... I'm not *really* that impressed with GD build quality. Our Jayco was flawless for 5 years. I really like this trailer in all ways much better than the Jayco, aside from how crappy it was thrown together. As much as possible I try to fix it myself because I can't afford to leave it at the dealer for months.
 
New to the forum. We are thinking about buying the 261bh. We have looked at so many floor plans and have seen a fridge on the slide, but not one with the stove and fridge. Was wondering if I should be concerned about the heat and ventilation from both items? Thanks for your time.

Our fridge and dinette are on our slide. We have had no issues to date.
 
Anyone having any wobbling when retracting or extending the slide on a 261BH. It almost feels like it's a rocking chair. Had a jayfeather and a bullet before thos transcend and never had this issue. It's seals well when fully extended or retracted. Guess you can't put it half way out
 
Anyone having any wobbling when retracting or extending the slide on a 261BH. It almost feels like it's a rocking chair. Had a jayfeather and a bullet before thos transcend and never had this issue. It's seals well when fully extended or retracted. Guess you can't put it half way out

It looks like you're new here, welcome to the forum. You've posted on an old thread, you'd probably have better luck starting your own. But yes, most slides work better if you only fully extend or retract it. Is your Transcend new?
 
Rocking while it's moving, or stopped? If it's shaking the trailer when the slide is moving, then try lubricating the gear packs under the slide. Fixed it for us.
 
Anyone having any wobbling when retracting or extending the slide on a 261BH. It almost feels like it's a rocking chair. Had a jayfeather and a bullet before thos transcend and never had this issue. It's seals well when fully extended or retracted. Guess you can't put it half way out

A couple of questions. I am going to guess it is a rack and pinion slide. If this was a Schwintec you would have serious issues if rocking while moving.

Please verify it is a Rack and Pinion. If so is the rocking more of an inconsistent sliding motion or is it like a see saw with the leading edge kind of rocking low to high on the way out and high to low on the way in?

Inconsistent sliding could easily be a lube issue, rocking low to high and vise versa is potentially a height adjustment.

Bill
 
Thanks guys on the opinions and the quick responses. We pulled the trigger on it and the first voyage this weekend!

Congrats on the new rig and welcome to the forum!

Bill
 
Yes, it's a rack and pinion. If you stop the slide at any point before its fully retracted or extended and pull on the slide from the ceiling to the floor it's very sloppy and rocks up and down like a rocking chair. It scrapes the floor badly when extending
 
Yes, it's a rack and pinion. If you stop the slide at any point before its fully retracted or extended and pull on the slide from the ceiling to the floor it's very sloppy and rocks up and down like a rocking chair. It scrapes the floor badly when extending
Scraping the floor is not good, but being able to rock the slide in a partially open condition is normal. The only time the slide will be solid, is when it is fully in or fully out. The nature of the beast. But it does sound like you need to check the supports on the bottom of the slide and see why it's scraping the floor. It may need to be raised a tad.
 

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