Remove bunkbeds to make work space?

SoundGuy wrote:

coachellacanuck wrote:
... I am thinking of removing the two bunkbeds that are on the opposite wall.

Has anyone had any experience with this type of modification?

We owned a triple bunk bed KZ Spree for six years - two beds along the back wall that ran the full width of the trailer and a third, smaller bed that ran along the rear curbside wall. We didn't need that third bed so I removed it to open up the space in that area ... the problem I ran into though was that the framing for those beds had been secured to the inside wall by running screws through from the outside before the trailer's outer wall had been installed. This may be a common construction technique but of course I didn't realize it at the time so when I finally did manage to pull that bed framing free it left some pretty large holes in the trailer's interior sidewall where the screw heads pulled through the interior wall paneling. I used caulking to fill the damaged areas but it sure looked ugly so I found some wallpaper border at Home Depot that looked similar to what had been used by the manufacturer in other areas of the trailer (similar colouring, similar patterns) and ran that around the wall, covering the damaged areas. Once completed no one would have known the difference. :B

Instead of pulling the fasteners through the framing, you could have cut them with a reciprocating saw. Cutting them flush with the interior paneling and a gentle tap with a nai lset would get them below the surface of the paneling and then a small bit of spackle could be used to fill the holes.