STAYING LEVEL!

Leveling Blocks

Leveling blocks are an excellent, if not an essential investment for your motorhome. Leveling is critical not only for your own comfort, but you will ruin your fridge if the RV is not level. It is great if you have an automatic leveling system, but if not you will have to use other means. I find even fairly level-looking camp sites in commercial campgrounds can often can use a 1” or 2” lift on one side or the other. Fridge manufacturer’s such as Norcold say that their fridges are designed to operate within 3 degrees of level side to side and 6 degrees front to back.

A lot of people bring along chunks of wood to level their RV, but wood is bulky, takes up a lot of space, is heavy and hard to get exactly the amount of lift you want. There is an excellent, inexpensive solution to this, and that is to use commercially available leveling blocks. There are a couple of manufactures of these blocks and they usually come 10 to a set in a convenient or inconvenient storage bag, depending on your point of view. The blocks are like Lego, they can be stacked and interlocked to get just the amount of lift that you need. I personally carry two sets in my Class C. I don’t often use them all, but there is

Leveling Blocks Stacked Up!

the odd occasion in a rough campsite that I have needed them. The blocks are lightweight and take up little space.

Warning: if you are leveling a motorhome don’t use scissor jacks or screw jacks to level your RV. These are ok for stabilizing the unit to prevent some rocking when you are moving around, but they are not designed to level the unit. You need something under the tires.

If you have a travel trailer the leveling blocks are also handy for use as blocks under the leveling jacks if you need that extra bit of lift, a bit of a stabilizing platform or if you just don’t want to do as much cranking.

These blocks are available at most RV dealers including Camping World and Amazon. Here are a couple of links to their websites:
Leveling blocks are an excellent, if not an essential investment for your motorhome. Leveling is critical not only for your own comfort, but you will ruin your fridge if the RV is not level. It is great if you have an automatic leveling system, but if not you will have to use other means. I find even fairly level-looking camp sites in commercial campgrounds can often can use a 1” or 2” lift on one side or the other. Fridge manufacturer’s such as Norcold say that their fridges are designed to operate within 3 degrees of level side to side and 6 degrees front to back.

A lot of people bring along chunks of wood to level their RV, but wood is bulky, takes up a lot of space, is heavy and hard to get exactly the amount of lift you want. There is an excellent, inexpensive solution to this, and that is to use commercially available leveling blocks. There are a couple of manufactures of these blocks and they usually come 10 to a set in a convenient or inconvenient storage bag, depending on your point of view. The blocks are like Lego, they can be stacked and interlocked to get just the amount of lift that you need. I personally carry two sets in my Class C. I don’t often use them all, but there is the odd occasion in a rough campsite that I have needed them. The blocks are lightweight and take up little space.

Warning: if you are leveling a motorhome don’t use scissor jacks or screw jacks to level your RV. These are ok for stabilizing the unit to prevent some rocking when you are moving around, but they are not designed to level the unit. You need something under the tires.

If you have a travel trailer the leveling blocks are also handy for use as blocks under the leveling jacks if you need that extra bit of lift, a bit of a stabilizing platform or if you just don’t want to do as much cranking.

These blocks are available at most RV dealers including Camping World and Amazon. Here are a couple of links to their websites.
Leveling blocks are an excellent, if not an essential investment for your motorhome. Leveling is critical not only for your own comfort, but you will ruin your fridge if the RV is not level. It is great if you have an automatic leveling system, but if not you will have to use other means. I find even fairly level-looking camp sites in commercial campgrounds can often can use a 1” or 2” lift on one side or the other. Fridge manufacturer’s such as Norcold say that their fridges are designed to operate within 3 degrees of level side to side and 6 degrees front to back.

A lot of people bring along chunks of wood to level their RV, but wood is bulky, takes up a lot of space, is heavy and hard to get exactly the amount of lift you want. There is an excellent, inexpensive solution to this, and that is to use commercially available leveling blocks. There are a couple of manufactures of these blocks and they usually come 10 to a set in a convenient or inconvenient storage bag, depending on your point of view. The blocks are like Lego, they can be stacked and interlocked to get just the amount of lift that you need. I personally carry two sets in my Class C. I don’t often use them all, but there is the odd occasion in a rough campsite that I have needed them. The blocks are lightweight and take up little space.

Warning: if you are leveling a motorhome don’t use scissor jacks or screw jacks to level your RV. These are ok for stabilizing the unit to prevent some rocking when you are moving around, but they are not designed to level the unit. You need something under the tires.

If you have a travel trailer the leveling blocks are also handy for use as blocks under the leveling jacks if you need that extra bit of lift, a bit of a stabilizing platform or if you just don’t want to do as much cranking.

These blocks are available at most RV dealers including Camping World and Amazon.