Airstream Floor Rot Repair

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Airstream floor rot repair.

Choose your floor plan and design. Join the airstream family. Since an airstream is mostly aluminum the floor is about the only thing that can rot. If you rot is extensive enough just look through the hole.

Find an airstream with a rotten floor. Search travel trailers. Your rot might be obvious like this hole in our floor. The trouble with an airstream is that it can be harder to tell when a floor has begun to rot.

Much my relief i can t tell you how darn nice everyone was. A search on the airforums will reveal other people s experiences and airstream s poor quality control. Download the touring coach brochure. Mike bocsik 23 315 views.

The removed front floor sections hardly even usable as a template. See all the specs and details. Otherwise pick yourself up a stud finder. Regardless i am going to show you a solution that has worked amazingly well to fix rotted sub floor on a shoe string budget.

Removing the airstream flooring. It is time consuming and therefore costly to repair floors. Locate the metal frame studs underneath the floor. After removing the floor we discovered several locations where the frame required repair.

Very little was holding the shell to the floor or the floor to the frame. Download the travel trailer brochure. 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. 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.

This step isn t too hard. So here s a step by step explanation of how we removed the floor before replacing it. All wooden floors can eventually fall prey to rotting and an airstream floor is no exception. In shopping for an airstream why do so many people say check that the floor is sound throughout.

Repairing a rotted floor. This can be accomplished several ways. 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. Even though the airstream has metal all around it it still has a wooden floor.

Vintage airstream leaky rivet repair using gesipa olympic rivets duration. It s important to note that airstream is aware of widespread floor rot issues in their late model trailers particularly 06 09 model years. I tried to avoid buying an airstream without rot but somehow managed to do it anyway.