5th wheel rebuild from major water damage
The Before part 2. The duct tape was used to get it home from Oklahoma in January. It is a 2006 5th wheel 32' bunkhouse. Bad repair job from previous owner They used close to an inch thic...
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Installing the interior paneling was much more difficult that expected. The old board that was pulled out was so rotted that it was a bit hard to get a good pattern and getting the angles just right was pretty difficult. Hind sight being what it is we would have used an angle tool before demo to get the correct angle on the front wall so we could put it back together the with the same angle.
The new wall board is a different color than the original. It looks a lot worse in these photos than it does in real life.
We have a well supplied RV repair shop that we get our supplies from and they said it is nearly impossible to match RV wall panels because the pattern changes every year or so. Being a bit of perfectionists we worried the unmatched panels would really bug us but we didn't want to tear out all the interior wall board in the front bedroom either.
In the end we opted to buy in stock wall board from Lowes for about $19 a sheet instead of actual RV wall board for $40 a sheet. It wasn't going to match anyway so we decided to save a bit of $
The "real" stuff may be a bit more durable being that it is actual plywood with bonded wall paper. The Lowes option is more of a composite. I guess you get what you pay for. Perhaps we will paint it someday. Or just be happy that we don't have a huge hole in the 5th wheel and just enjoy it and go camping.
The new wall board is a different color than the original. It looks a lot worse in these photos than it does in real life.
We have a well supplied RV repair shop that we get our supplies from and they said it is nearly impossible to match RV wall panels because the pattern changes every year or so. Being a bit of perfectionists we worried the unmatched panels would really bug us but we didn't want to tear out all the interior wall board in the front bedroom either.
In the end we opted to buy in stock wall board from Lowes for about $19 a sheet instead of actual RV wall board for $40 a sheet. It wasn't going to match anyway so we decided to save a bit of $
The "real" stuff may be a bit more durable being that it is actual plywood with bonded wall paper. The Lowes option is more of a composite. I guess you get what you pay for. Perhaps we will paint it someday. Or just be happy that we don't have a huge hole in the 5th wheel and just enjoy it and go camping.
