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Background:
Bought a 2002 R-vision Trail-Lite Bantam 19ft Hybrid trailer this past Fall for the family to go camping in. When I bought it I knew it had some issues and would need some repairs in the Spring. Seeing as how I was able to pick it up for about $2,500 below what the trailer has been seen to go for, I figured I was getting a good deal even with the necessary repairs.
I decided last night to start pulling up the floor in a couple soft areas to have a look at what I was dealing with. The floor was saturated with water in the softer areas and I'm not sure where the possible leak is coming from. I also don't know how far I'm going to have to tear up the floor to deal with the problem. I contacted the manufacturer to try and get a schematic of the floor itself and how it is constructed, but due to the fact that trail-lite is no longer made the current company (R-vision) does not have these schematics, so dead end.
Issue #1- Do I need to remove all of the interior walls, cabinets and seats/sofa to deal with this problem, or could I get away with just replacing the floor up to a certain point? If I don't need to remove the walls etc is it going to be good enough to cut around them to replace the floor or am I just putting a useless bandaid on something that I'm going to have to address down the road anyway?
Issue #2- From having the trailer stored outside during the winter uncovered (I know I know) it appears that water has leaked from somewhere into the wall and forced the bottom of the exterior wall in 2 spots to pop out of the L-shaped moulding on the bottom. Not even sure where to begin to ask how to fix this other than trying to clean and re-seal those spots.
Issue #3- Time. I plan on camping with the family Victoria long weekend, the site is paid for and I'm worried that this project is going to balloon into something bigger than I have the time to tackle.
During all of this I plan on cleaning and re-sealing the roof to hopefully stop that area as being a contributor to the problem. I know without pictures that any help or advice anyone is willing to provide is difficult so I will try to take some and upload them for reference.
Any advice or guidance is very much appreciated, hopefully someone here has experienced a project like this and can steer me in the right direction. I've been posting on an r-vision forum to try and get lots of input and help, and I've been searching Google like mad trying to get any tips/ideas/manuals that can help this project not cause me to rip what little hair I have left out.
Bought a 2002 R-vision Trail-Lite Bantam 19ft Hybrid trailer this past Fall for the family to go camping in. When I bought it I knew it had some issues and would need some repairs in the Spring. Seeing as how I was able to pick it up for about $2,500 below what the trailer has been seen to go for, I figured I was getting a good deal even with the necessary repairs.
I decided last night to start pulling up the floor in a couple soft areas to have a look at what I was dealing with. The floor was saturated with water in the softer areas and I'm not sure where the possible leak is coming from. I also don't know how far I'm going to have to tear up the floor to deal with the problem. I contacted the manufacturer to try and get a schematic of the floor itself and how it is constructed, but due to the fact that trail-lite is no longer made the current company (R-vision) does not have these schematics, so dead end.
Issue #1- Do I need to remove all of the interior walls, cabinets and seats/sofa to deal with this problem, or could I get away with just replacing the floor up to a certain point? If I don't need to remove the walls etc is it going to be good enough to cut around them to replace the floor or am I just putting a useless bandaid on something that I'm going to have to address down the road anyway?
Issue #2- From having the trailer stored outside during the winter uncovered (I know I know) it appears that water has leaked from somewhere into the wall and forced the bottom of the exterior wall in 2 spots to pop out of the L-shaped moulding on the bottom. Not even sure where to begin to ask how to fix this other than trying to clean and re-seal those spots.
Issue #3- Time. I plan on camping with the family Victoria long weekend, the site is paid for and I'm worried that this project is going to balloon into something bigger than I have the time to tackle.
During all of this I plan on cleaning and re-sealing the roof to hopefully stop that area as being a contributor to the problem. I know without pictures that any help or advice anyone is willing to provide is difficult so I will try to take some and upload them for reference.
Any advice or guidance is very much appreciated, hopefully someone here has experienced a project like this and can steer me in the right direction. I've been posting on an r-vision forum to try and get lots of input and help, and I've been searching Google like mad trying to get any tips/ideas/manuals that can help this project not cause me to rip what little hair I have left out.