Motorhome Floor Construction

Remove the areas that are badly damaged.

Motorhome floor construction.

The stick n tin consists of laying aluminum over a wood frame. It s around 35 years since caravan and motorhome manufacturers started to use prefabricated floor and wall panels. Following are just a few of the ways in which we construct our coaches differently to build a better rv. The first method is the tried and true stick n tin construction that has been used since around the 1940s.

Each super c motorhome model features a noise isolating 2x4 residential wood frame floor built on high strength steel mounted to the chassis frame. We do a lot of things differently at grand design rv and our construction is no exception. Once he knew where the damage was doug removed the vinyl floor covering and all the rotted wood. There are two main forms of construction that rv manufacturers use.

The second is a newer process called laminate which consists of laying fiberglass over an. Attention to detail makes the difference just because everyone else is doing it doesn t make it the right way. These composite products employ what is known as sandwich construction and it s interesting that none of their three components have individual rigidity. You may need to put your rv up on jacks to perform this step and ensure that all the old rotted flooring is completely removed both internally and externally.