Travel Trailer Spongy Floor

Move around the whole interior of your rv travel trailer testing the floors everywhere for a soft feeling and noting the locations on a roughed out floor plan.

Travel trailer spongy floor.

March 27 2013 august 31 2015 filed under. The used travel trailer i just purchased has a couple of soft spots in the flooring under the vinyl rug. Usually the problem can be traced back to a water leak that s compromised the integrity of the. Repairing floor soft spots.

This is most often caused by water damage which may be only one small part of larger damages caused by water. John cagney nash began composing press releases and event reviews for british nightclubs in 1982. His material was first published in the. Be especially vigilant around slide outs places where plumbing is above the floor such as in kitchens and bathrooms and all around your freshwater storage tank if it is inside.

The floor of our 2009 rockwood 8315bss trailer is very soft not just flexing soft in the bathroom area and starting to get soft in the kitchen area. By russ and tiña de maris. Its that luan styrofoam luan type floor have been in contact with forest river warranty runs out the end of april and they seem ok with fixing it. It s always important to keep the floor in a good state because if you just don t take care of it will go downhill from there.

Obviously if the soft floor is due to water damage you want to find the leak and seal it. Many folks who love and preserve an older rv have found a painful reality in their treasure. Why campers have soft spots on the floor if you are an experienced rv user chances are you have already customized the floors of your current rv model and are constantly maintaining it. A spongy rv floor indicates rot in the subflooring usually the plywood underneath the laminate tile or carpet.

I noticed these when i bought it and did a pretty extensive comb through of the camper and did not see any signs of water damage anywhere inside or underneath the trailer. But it very well may be just the very thin subfloor used in construction of the trailer. I noticed bouncing floors in quite a few of the light weight trailers we looked at when shopping for a new trailer. Soft spot in floor repair.

See my step by step diy instructions for floor demolition and restoration.