Okay - I knew the floor was a little spongy when we put the van away for the winter...
The van is an 1984 Bailey Pageant Maestro D - 5 berth - no damp anywhere!
Picked it up to day, and having read all I could on sorting out a delaminated floor, I was expecting to find a wood/insulation/wood sandwich. However, all I find is a wood/foam-insulation layer.
The problem is that where the insulation sits on the subframe of the caravan the insulation has become compressed. My question is do I go about sorting the floor in the same way - by drilling and injecting a resin or do I need to do something a little different?
just drill fill with as much resin as you can you can always do it in 2 or three goes as far as youcan the youcan skim it with car body filler regards brian
hi see this it may help delamination...if the depression is more than normal then some packing should be done before filling with resin,when i say packing the ply is only 5mm thick so you need to cut out a hole that allows thin ply to go in.think of a ice cream wafer thin/filling/thin thats how the floor is made,all you are doing is glueing it all back together
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Steve, is your Bailey the old style of build (ie not sandwich type construction)? I had a Marathon built the 'old'way, that had a solid plywood floor with polystyrene stuck to the underside of it, so when you looked underneath it was polystyrene covered with a (loose) plastic membrane. That floor used to move and creak, but just movement between the panels.
Try drilling a small hole right through, you should be able to ascertain it is sandwich construction or not.
I put a piece of plywood about 12" wide and long enough to fit between the chassis, against the floor to spread the load and prevent the polystyrene from compressing and fastened 3" X 2" battens between the wooden chassis members to hold it in place.
I've got an Aluminium chassis. So can I use the plywood idea and just bridge the chassis members with ply or would this cause me too much of a lift problem as it will lift the floor above the original level?
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Topic: Spongy Floor
