Airstream Floor Rot Repair

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Airstream floor rot repair.

Download the travel trailer brochure. Otherwise pick yourself up a stud finder. Much my relief i can t tell you how darn nice everyone was. When we last left off my airstream was floorless and admittedly looking rather sad so in this post i will show you how to complete that airstream shell on floor replacement.

Removing the airstream flooring. Rot is the result of leakage. Join the airstream family. Since an airstream is mostly aluminum the floor is about the only thing that can rot.

Choose your floor plan and design. Very little was holding the shell to the floor or the floor to the frame. I don t know if it s a small town thing or an airstream thing or a little bit of both thing but after seeing the floor rot airstream agreed to replace the subfloor which involved ripping out about 1 3 of the existing floor and cover the majority of expenses. Find an airstream with a rotten floor.

So here s a step by step explanation of how we removed the floor before replacing it. Search travel trailers. If you rot is extensive enough just look through the hole. It is time consuming and therefore costly to repair floors.

A search on the airforums will reveal other people s experiences and airstream s poor quality control. Mike bocsik 23 315 views. It s important to note that airstream is aware of widespread floor rot issues in their late model trailers particularly 06 09 model years. Airstream in the 1950 s built the trailer by stretching the insulation over the frame securing down the plywood floor installing the upper frame and outer skin shell and then installing the belly skin.

In shopping for an airstream why do so many people say check that the floor is sound throughout. The trouble with an airstream is that it can be harder to tell when a floor has begun to rot. This can be accomplished several ways. I tried to avoid buying an airstream without rot but somehow managed to do it anyway.

Regardless i am going to show you a solution that has worked amazingly well to fix rotted sub floor on a shoe string budget. After removing the floor we discovered several locations where the frame required repair. Vintage airstream leaky rivet repair using gesipa olympic rivets duration. All wooden floors can eventually fall prey to rotting and an airstream floor is no exception.

This step isn t too hard. Repairing a rotted floor. See all the specs and details. The removed front floor sections hardly even usable as a template.

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