Your rot might be obvious like this hole in our floor.
Airstream floor rot repair.
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.
Rot is the result of leakage.
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The removed front floor sections hardly even usable as a template.
Removing the airstream flooring.
Find an airstream with a rotten floor.
Locate the metal frame studs underneath the floor.
Repairing a rotted floor.
It s important to note that airstream is aware of widespread floor rot issues in their late model trailers particularly 06 09 model years.
To be fair i will say that there are well documented cases with.
Very little was holding the shell to the floor or the floor to the frame.
Even though the airstream has metal all around it it still has a wooden floor.
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This can be accomplished several ways.
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A search on the airforums will reveal other people s experiences and airstream s poor quality control.
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If you rot is extensive enough just look through the hole.
I tried to avoid buying an airstream without rot but somehow managed to do it anyway.
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.
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.
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This step isn t too hard.
In shopping for an airstream why do so many people say check that the floor is sound throughout.
Since an airstream is mostly aluminum the floor is about the only thing that can rot.
So here s a step by step explanation of how we removed the floor before replacing it.
It is time consuming and therefore costly to repair floors.
Much my relief i can t tell you how darn nice everyone was.
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All wooden floors can eventually fall prey to rotting and an airstream floor is no exception.