Travel Trailer Spongy Floor

March 27 2013 august 31 2015 filed under.

Travel trailer spongy floor.

Soft spot in floor repair. 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. Obviously if the soft floor is due to water damage you want to find the leak and seal it. His material was first published in the.

I noticed bouncing floors in quite a few of the light weight trailers we looked at when shopping for a new trailer. Many folks who love and preserve an older rv have found a painful reality in their treasure. Soft spots in their flooring. Usually the problem can be traced back to a water leak that s compromised the integrity of the.

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. By russ and tiña de maris. 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. John cagney nash began composing press releases and event reviews for british nightclubs in 1982.

See my step by step diy instructions for floor demolition and restoration. The used travel trailer i just purchased has a couple of soft spots in the flooring under the vinyl rug. This is most often caused by water damage which may be only one small part of larger damages caused by water. 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.

Thus if you discover rotted floorboards you re likely going to want to inspect the rest of your rv for water. 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. Repairing floor soft spots. 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.

A spongy rv floor indicates rot in the subflooring usually the plywood underneath the laminate tile or carpet.