Travel Trailer Spongy Floor

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.

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. By russ and tiña de maris. I replaced the rotten floor in my 2006 trail lite camper for under 500. Usually the problem can be traced back to a water leak that s compromised the integrity of the.

A spongy rv floor indicates rot in the subflooring usually the plywood underneath the laminate tile or carpet. Obviously if the soft floor is due to water damage you want to find the leak and seal it. This is most often caused by water damage which may be only one small part of larger damages caused by water. His material was first published in the.

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. Soft spots in their flooring. See my step by step diy instructions for floor demolition and restoration. John cagney nash began composing press releases and event reviews for british nightclubs in 1982.

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

The used travel trailer i just purchased has a couple of soft spots in the flooring under the vinyl rug. But it very well may be just the very thin subfloor used in construction of the trailer. 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. March 27 2013 august 31 2015 filed under.

Soft spot in floor repair.