This means that the floor can be left to rot for a long time before you realize it needs to be fixed.
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6 steps to learn more about how to repair a rotted wood rv floor let s take doug klassen and his 1991 jayco 220 travel trailer for example.
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This step isn t too hard.
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It is time consuming and therefore costly to repair floors.
The removed front floor sections hardly even usable as a template.
On the other hand it is fairly easy to detect a rotted floor by simply prodding the corners edges and under cabinets with an ice pick.
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Rot is the result of leakage.
The trouble with an airstream is that it can be harder to tell when a floor has begun to rot.
How to replace rotted wood flooring in a travel trailer.
In the next section let s look into what you need to do to tackle travel trailer floor repair on your own.
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Then dan remembered reading a post on the forums that said something about the floor being notched out at the threshold.
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Since an airstream is mostly aluminum the floor is about the only thing that can rot.
Since the airstream shell is mounted on top of the trailer s floor you may find that replacing certain sections of the flooring is more complicated.
Very little was holding the shell to the floor or the floor to the frame.
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So here s a step by step explanation of how we removed the floor before replacing it.