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Subject Topic: AVONDALE FLOOR
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15/2/2013 at 6:50pm
 Location: welling kent
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The floors is constructed of two sheets of thin plywood bonded to a styrofoam core BUT IM SURE I ONLY HAVE WOOD FLOORING NO STYROFOAM. HOW CAN I CHECK TO BE SURE.

AND DOES ALL CARAVAN FLOORS HAVE STYROFOAM IN BETWEEN


15/2/2013 at 7:08pm
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The obvious way to check is to drill through it. If it has styrofoam in the middle, the top layer will only be a few millimeters thick then the drill will go straight through and hit the bottom layer. If yo are able to drill a 5mm deep hole without hitting anything soft then it's solid wood.

What year is your caravan?


15/2/2013 at 7:19pm
 Location: welling kent
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it is 1993


15/2/2013 at 7:23pm
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Well my 1991 Avondale had a polystyrene construction floor, so I would be amazed if a 1993 model didn't


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The only leisure vehicle we ever owned that had a solid one-piece plywood floor was an Autosleeper 'Amethyst' MH (the fibreglass monocoque style)

Everything else has been/is a wretched styrofoam/ply sandwich - which is what your own caravan floor will almost certainly be,

Easiest way to check (without drilling and making additional holes) is to remove a floor vent grille and check inside the cut out.

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16/2/2013 at 11:26am
 Location: Derbyshire
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We owned a couple of Avondales of around the same era, an Adonis and an Olympus, both had the Styrofoam sandwich construction floors, the Adonis was an 88 model and the Olympus was a 93,

It was only my old Monza which was a 82 model that had the solid plywood floor, which i can remember paying the dealer extra to give it a coat of creosote to help preserve it for us whilst he had it on the ramps doing the PDI, as it was brand new.

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