Rv Slide Floor Rot

In this video i get busy repairing a rotten section of my main slide out room floor in my 2011 276rls keystone cougar fifth wheel.

Rv slide floor rot. July 27 2020 august 6 2019. In between these two pieces of steel will be the slide floor the repaired rotted wood as well as the wall. A roughly 17 x 45 section of plywood needed to be cut out and replaced with a fresh piece. In one of our previous videos we show the water damage to our bedroom slide.

Cut the new plywood flooring to fit the area that you removed the rotten wood from. While attending rv rallies around the nation and performing free motorcoach inspections the talin team began seeing a pattern of bottom slide floor cover separation and rot. It was tough but it wasn t a. Robbie warford s rv thanks for the question.

2014 keystone fuzion 342th. Your rv s floor quite literally holds you up while you walk around inside the rig not to mention all those heavy pieces of furniture and appliances. I can t give you an acurate estimate without more info but it does sound like it s a serious leak issue. 6 find a machine shop that will bend two pieces of steel for you.

Mark on the plywood where the floor beams below it will lie. I basically made a sandwich out of two pieces of steel with one on the underside of the slide and one on the interior of the rv. Rotted rv slide out floor repair fixed manufacturer flaw. How did it work.

Once we replaced the flooring with the addition of underlayment we realized the small gap does not affect the integrity of the slide out flooring. The outside corner moulding works well though we needed to still leave a small gap between it and the main floor of the rv so that the slide could move in and out without scratching the flooring. Slide out floor by. If the pressboard is black and rotted you have have more than just a floor to replace.

Welcome to our world. See the update video on this repair months later. This is our attempt at rv slide floor replacement. This will also keep pipe and wood temperatures stable to prevent further water damage.

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. So far both main slide bedroom slide floors replaced due to water intrusion rot.