Replacing Camper Floor Joists

Prompt repair is vital in keeping your camper serviceable.

Replacing camper floor joists.

Find a replacement joist that is the same size as your floor joist. This part of. How to replace rv flooring. The local camper sales service place wanted 200.

Step 1 move around the whole interior of your rv travel trailer testing the floors everywhere for a soft feeling and noting the locations on a roughed out floor plan. Doug soon found out that the floor joists weren t the normal 2 4 framing. Short videos and slideshow documenting our attempt at replacing rotten joists and flooring in a kitchen of a house we are currently renovating. Fortunately you can replace the.

Find a new floor joist with these exact same dimensions. Travelling in an rv is a great way to explore new places while riding in comfort but sometimes changes in climate can cause the flooring in your rv to crack warp or rot. Mark on the plywood where the floor beams below it will lie. Boxed up in an enclosed rv with fumes from this stuff filling your lungs is a surefire way to damage your organism.

A friend s camper has been leaking for some time apparently and has rotted out the floor ledger and joists. Unscrew the sub floor in the area you ll be cutting the damaged sub floor will still be screwed into the floor joists so you ll need to find and remove all those screws before you cut. This will also keep pipe and wood temperatures stable to prevent further water damage. Use a tape measure to measure the length width and height of your existing floor joist.

In the next section let s look into what you need to do to tackle travel trailer floor repair on your own. I just had part of the floor fixed in my starcraft hybrid the rv repair guy said it will cost 5 000 to replace the whole floor i m female and love camping but not a floor fixer upper does anyone know some one that can replace the floor for 2 000 i love in lowell massachusetts thanks linda. And be sure to follow the precautions with regard to safety. Cut the new plywood flooring to fit the area that you removed the rotten wood from.

Set your circular saw to the depth of your sub floor depending on what type of camper you have your sub floor will vary in thickness. How to replace rotted wood flooring in a travel trailer. Lay fiberglass insulation pads between the floor beams to provide a better heat seal within the rv. Make sure you also buy the same type of joist.