Coat Hanger Issues

PeterR
PeterR Forum Participant Posts: 59
edited February 2019 in Caravans #1

Hi everyone. Does anyone have a solution to stop coat hangers jumping off the rack whilst travelling. I consider myself a careful driver, but I still have the issue of the hangers falling off the racks. I have two wardrobes, both of which are in the end bathroom. Your advice and ideas would be welcome.

Many thanks in advance.

Peter

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  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #2

    There’s a tip in this month’s magazine involving scaffold tube or some such thing.

    Some vans seem prone to it, some not. From experience, it seems to indicate either pitching or sway when under way. Try some curtain wire fixed tightly over the top of the rail and secured with a screw in eye at each end if you can.

  • Oneputt
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    edited February 2019 #3

    I only use wire coat hangers and just hang on rail then squeeze the hanging Loop together.

    We also use one on the aerial to improve radio reception.smile

  • redface
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    edited February 2019 #4

    Put your hangers on the rail, same way round then reverse the hooks of the two end ones. Finally get a short bungee cord and  hook on to one end hanger, wrap it round the whole lot and re-secure, it under tension, to the first end so the hangers are bunched up by the strap.

    The two reversed hangers stop the lot from jumping off the rail

  • PeterR
    PeterR Forum Participant Posts: 59
    edited February 2019 #6

    Thanks Tinwheeler. I haven't had time to read this months magazine as it only arrived this morning.

  • PeterR
    PeterR Forum Participant Posts: 59
    edited February 2019 #7

    Thanks Oneputt, I'll try and get some wire hangers for the next time we go out.

  • PeterR
    PeterR Forum Participant Posts: 59
    edited February 2019 #8

    Thanks Redface, I have some short bungee cords, so that seems an easy solution.

  • PeterR
    PeterR Forum Participant Posts: 59
    edited February 2019 #9

    Thanks cariadon, I'll give this a try if other solutions don't work for me.

  • huskydog
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    edited February 2019 #10

    Buy heavy clothes ,then the hangers won't jump off cool

  • clarinetman
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    edited February 2019 #11

    I bought the hotel type hangers the ones you can’t pinch , got them from eBay.

    took rail down threaded the hangers on no trouble since.

     

  • Pippah45
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    edited February 2019 #12

    I invested in the special caravanning ones and they do work but I like pipe lagging too!  

  • dave the rave
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    edited February 2019 #13

    my system has always been..........non.slip mat wrapped around the rail and secured with cable ties plus the same curtain wire system used by Tinwheeler.I also make sure that my carer puts the hangers on the rail with the open end of the hook facing toward the wardrobe door.(forward facing wardrobe).Does not stop some of carers flimsy clothing slipping off the hangersealed

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #14

    I nearly forgot this one. One elastic band per coathanger - simple.

  • Olivegrower
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    edited February 2019 #15

    We use the lightweight fleece covered hangars. The clothes stay on the hangars and with a quick squeeze of the hook they stay on the rail as well.

  • cyberyacht
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    edited February 2019 #16

    I'll try and get some wire hangers for the next time we go out.

    Odd socks are metal hangers in their larval state. You just have to wait for them to pupate.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited February 2019 #17

    good idea, like it.

    Must admit I don't have this problem but maybe because my wardrobe is just off center while the OP's is further away from the wheels so any swaying, bumping will be 'amplified' there?

  • paul56
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    edited February 2019 #18

    Get married and she will put so many clothes on the rail that they can't possibly fall off as they are tightly wedged! 

  • EasyT
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    edited February 2019 #19

    That would have been my choice too. However it is rare that a hanger comes off the rail for us and so no problem

  • chas4551
    chas4551 Forum Participant Posts: 10
    edited February 2019 #20

    We use coat hangers designed for caravans. Search the web for them, never had one fall off yet.

    I think we have enough to do with stocking supplies, water, waste, elec, check this, check that etc when we go away without worrying about making a hanger that will stay on the rail!

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #21

    Goodness, I never realised going away was such a chore! 😂😂😂

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  • lornalou1
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    edited February 2019 #23

    put elastic band on hanger, hook onto rail and then take band and attach to hook. simples.smile

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #24

    Wow, fancy that! 😁

    See previous page, LL. 

  • crown green bowler
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    edited February 2019 #25

    We travel with all the clothes from the wardrobe placed flat on the beds, then hang them in the wardrobe when on site. The main reason being that we take quite a few heavy things on hangers and most wardrobe rails are only held in place with small screws, and my thought is that the more swinging movement with weight means more repair jobs for me.

  • Jacko From Kent
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    edited February 2019 #26

    +1

  • lornalou1
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    edited February 2019 #27

    sorry, didn't read 2nd page. haha. snap.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited February 2019 #28

    No problem.

  • dave the rave
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    edited February 2019 #29

    but the rail bends and falls out of the bracketstongue-out

  • Takethedogalong
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    edited February 2019 #30

    This thread is like the letters page used to be back in the days of Enroute Magazine. All sorts of wonderful ideas for sorting out problems. My all time favourite was “how to stop the loo roll unravelling when travelling” some wonderful inventions popped up for that one!😂

    Love it!😁

  • dave the rave
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    edited February 2019 #31

    elastic band!cool

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