Travel Trailer Spongy Floor Repair

How to repair soft floors in an rv travel trailer.

Travel trailer spongy floor repair.

I have a 2008 coachmen captive 288 fks and the floor from the front entrance door to the sofa slide out visually gives and feels spongy underfoot. We knew there had to be a better way what follows is the step by step repair process that we followed to fix our water damaged sub floor. We recently undertook to solve a soft floor problem in our elderly travel trailer. Be especially vigilant around slide outs places where plumbing is above the floor such as in kitchens and bathrooms and all.

See my step by step diy instructions for floor demolition and restoration. Soft spot in floor. Posted in problems solutions after market. A previous owner had let a toilet leak go to the point that an area of the plywood floor in the center of the bathroom finally developed dry rot.

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. The two components are pressed together then. Do i have to pull the linoleum up to find of the flooring is rotted or is there another fix. A spongy rv floor signals that there s damage that has led to rot which may be due to a water leak or other mechanical failure.

One item is that we have a soft spot in the floor near a vent about 10 x 10 otherwise the floor is solid everywhere else. Well one surefire way to learn that your travel trailer s floor needs a little love is to walk on it and discover it isn t exactly structurally stable. I was wondering what experience others. I just had part of the floor fixed in my starcraft hybrid the rv repair guy said it will cost 5 000 to replace the whole floor i m female and love camping but not a floor fixer upper does anyone know some one that can replace the floor for 2 000 i love in lowell massachusetts thanks linda.

You ve got a water damaged sub floor is it minor or major damage. We are taking in our outback for its first service and we have our list of items we need repaired after owning our outback for 2 months now. I replaced the rotten floor in my 2006 trail lite camper for under 500. Travel trailers and rvs are typically manufactured with flooring made of particle board.