How to Build a RV/Travel Trailer Parking Pad 🛠 in 101 seconds

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00:00 Intro
00:34 Why We Built the Travel Trailer Pad
1:12 The Cost of the Travel Trailer Pad
1:35 Drainage was an Issue!
2:11 Why a Landscaping Wall?
2:41 Lots of Dirt!
3:17 How We Bordered the Travel Trailer Pad
4:00 What Would We Do Differently?

This right here was the definitely of DIY! We built it...and we did it all by ourselves to help us a save a little money! Follow along as we talk you through how we built both a landscaping wall and travel trailer pad for our Airstream travel trailer! Have you built a travel trailer/RV pad? Any questions about how we built ours? Drop them below!

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I just found your channel. 2025, what a crazy year . Im needing to find a home base for my little Rv . I love your little oasis ❤

krisg
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Looks good, friends! Here’s a little tip relative to pressure treated wood…let it aclimate before you stain it. Once water stops beading on the surface, that’s when you know it’s ready for stain. It takes about 6-12 months for it to aclimate. Just be sure to pressure wash it first and let it dry for 24 hours prior to stain.

stevenhowell
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I'm in the process of breaking ties and going full time RV for a few years. Thanks for the share! I'm in that stage now and this was really helpful.

benjamin
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Wish I could send a pic of my small pad. Hopefully picking up our new Air Stream still trying to come up with a name. Warranty not included, there goes my retirement fund, warranty denied by corporate, Drop in the bucket. See I need help naming her. Keep the laughs coming.

richardjohnson
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You two did a fine job, Nice work. Obviously, tractors and power tools makes everything run that much more efficient, Thanks for sharing your project. My wife and I are getting ready to install 10 pads here in Texas for a new Tiny home community, so we really enjoyed your video. Peace

homesteadingusa
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looks great! your right about extending the wall a bit at the ramps to help with that slope…

vdubskiee
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Our pad is 14 by 24 for our 21 ft Chinook. We brought in 15 yards of shell marl and another 2 yards of rock. Anyway we used pressure treated sides of 2 by 12 and 6 by 4 12 footers of pt to make a stained frame
It took three years as we did it by hand we had to design some it's we went. It has solar lighting and will have a 2 by 12 six foot by ten foot wide ramp and an inner three foot walkway. I feel it came out well

Anjanya
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Nice! I didn't know about the drainage rock under wall, you may have saved me some trouble 👍

EdsPlace
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Looks like a nice pad! We love having a level pad too! ~ Shion and Matthew

BrokenDreamsReborn
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Thanks for sharing. I'm now thinking of making changes to my RV-park site based on this video.

johnlesko
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Happy 1000th subscribers guys!!!🥳🥳🥳 Thank you for the info!

katrinagay
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Fun times guys. Just bought 16 acres getting ready to do the same.

MountainTopHomestead
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Nice job. Looks like you ready to set up shop with Hipcamp and make a little side cash.

desk
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I did a pad last summer, used road base instead of soil for fill. Topped it off with crushed limestone, looks good and hard as concrete but, there’s always a but, when it rains the limestone splashes on the Airstream. As Charlie Brown would say, rats!
PS. Can you guys also make longer video’s?

acrscott
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Absolutely love what y’all did!! Especially the rock you used as the wall. I may have missed it being said, but what product is that? Also, is that crushed granite you used for the pad top? This looks so natural vs. concrete pads. We are getting ready to place on in our back yard. Love the video! Subscribing!!!

JenniferTinsleyFoster
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Trying to look for cheaper way to go about doing a travel trailer pad already talked to a guy about some gravel and he wants $300 per load and he said it might take 2-3 loads do y’all have any suggestions or would it be cheaper to just buy the gravel elsewhere and do it ourselves. I came across this video cuz I was looking for ideas

becksmarie
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This looks amazing! Question, when you said you did 6" of drainage rock behind the wall, did you do that on top of the 4" of gravel wall foundation or actually behind the set in place landscape wall separating the fill dirt from the wall?

McGnarman
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Where in SC are you permitted to build a pad on your property to live in an RV fulltime? I live in North Charleston area and none of the counties around here allow it. Exception being a 6 month permit if you are building a traditional house on the property.

billyclabough
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Hey guys! I'm looking to build an RV pad to rent out to folks like you in NC near Asheville! How do you know how big to build the pad? What are some must-haves? Thanks!

charlottemcghee
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I want to add a gravel drive and parking area from my existing drive to my back garage, about 200" long and 12" wide, till it opens up by the garage at about 18' wide. I'm using railroad ties as a border. Do you see any issues with simply cutting the grass as low as possible (scalping it), then spraying with grass killer, covered with landscaping fabric and then gravel? Drainage is great in the area and not a concern.

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