Travel Trailer Floor Soft Spots

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Travel trailer floor soft spots.

Hopefully we dont have to take it in for repair. You can sometimes ignore it for a while but it can get downright dangerous. Many folks who love and preserve an older rv have found a painful reality in their treasure. Why do campers get soft spots in the floor.

If i am not mistaken many of the liteweight trailers do not use plywood for the floor but rather a sandwich of wood and foam which has been known to create soft spots such as you describe. 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 used travel trailer i just purchased has a couple of soft spots in the flooring under the vinyl rug. 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.

Soft spots in their flooring. 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. 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.

This is most often caused by water damage which may be only one small part of larger damages caused by water. How to fix caravan or rv spongy soft floor delamination repair start to finish easy to use and a cheap but good quality repair the product is permanent an. Lack of underlying support combined with this floor structure could make things even worse.