Keeping Mark’s girlfriend, aka our motor home, looking great is a priority for us. She gets an annual spa day where every inch is cleaned, waxed and polished to make her looking brand new again.
Mark is the master of the dry wash after a particularly dirty drive and he cleans the windshield at every campground so we have a bug-free giant picture window.
The key to keeping her just as pretty as her spa day is simple, as in Simple Chuck. What is Simple Chuck you ask?
It’s magic I tell you.
When Andrew Steele, our detail guy, did our RV the first time we noticed that he didn’t dry the coach before waxing it. They simply got the waxing stuff ready while waiting for the coach to dry. We were amazed to not find a single spot and Mark had to learn of this magic concoction he used. But it wasn’t a concoction at all, just the Simple Chuck machine mounted in his truck.
He was happy to tell us all about it which sent Mark into an internet searching frenzy. He HAD to have this. He rattled off all the ways we could use it; not only on the RV but on our cars, the boat and our desert toys that always come back so filthy and are a pain to dry. He’s the spender and I’m the saver so I think he was listing all the ways we would use it therefore justifying the expense. Don’t tell him that he didn’t need to, I’d been fully on board since the start.
Andrew has moved on to much bigger things with his YouTube channel. He didn’t leave us high and dry though. He sent us to Brian Andrus with Andrus Auto Detail. Brian has the same attention to detail and treats Mark’s baby like his own.
Simple Chuck is a deionizing system that makes the water dry spot free without the time, effort and energy to dry it all by hand. Even in our scorching Arizona heat, it dries in a snap with nary a spot. If your water is anything like ours, it’s full of minerals and salts that leave any area not dried with a towel looking awful. The canisters have a nifty replacement guide on the side. When your chamber register hits the top section, it’s time to email the company for a replacement. They’ll send you two new chambers then you use the shipping box to return yours. Depending on your water, yours may look as gross as ours on the left when it’s time to change.
The two chambers filter out all the bad stuff and perfectly clean pure water exits out the hose at the other end. It’s great to use just like this and on a barely dirty car, I’m sure it works great.
We pair the Simple Chuck with our pressure washer and foam cannon attachment. Now, before you scream out loud, “NO! You’re not supposed to use a pressure washer!” We know. We bought an electric one that has a really low pressure setting. It’s ideal because it drastically cuts down on the amount of water needed to clean the coach.
It takes a couple minutes to get everything set up. First, hook your hose to Simple Chuck then hook the outgoing hose from Chuck to your pressure washer. Next, fill your foam cannon attachment and get your ladder and wash mops.
We’ve talked about writing a Simple Chuck blog for a while. Mark usually does this at dawn when the coach is the coolest. Did I mention we live on the face of the sun? If we are leaving later that day, I head to the grocery store while he washes the coach. And I remember that I need to take pictures of him washing the coach as I pull back in the driveway. This time, however, he decided to wash it after dinner the night before so I was around to take pictures. He welcomed the mist of the over spray since it was hot and muggy.
Back to washing.
Mark works in sections, as I’m sure most people do. He begins by giving that section a really good rinse. Then he switches out the pressure washer head for the foam cannon attachment and goes to town getting good even coverage. He has a lamb’s wool mop head that he uses to clean the coach. It’s easy to tell where you’ve washed and where you haven’t with the foam. Next up is another really good rinse. That’s it. No towels and no worry. Simply move onto the next section and don’t look back.
Like yours, the front gets all kinds of gross dirty. Mark sprays an extra thick layer of foam and lets it sit for a couple of minutes. He’s learned that letting it sit helps loosen up the bugs and makes it much easier to get them off.
Using the Simple Chuck has drastically cut his washing time, and my drying time. Washing may be a one-person job but drying is an “all hands on deck” task.
We aren’t full-timers yet so Chuck stays in the garage right next to the pressure washer, ready for use. They do make a smaller system that can live in your storage compartment but I’ve not seen one in use at a campground yet.
This saver is glad we have it and use it. It’s changed our cleaning game ten-fold and I’m sure it will change yours as well. Less time cleaning and more time playing is always good in my book!