Squeaky Floors
I am looking for some advice on stopping /repairing the sqeak in my living room floor of my 5th wheel. How hard is it and the difficulty level. All advice is greatly appreciated
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- Very hard to say about the difficulty level with out more information. What is the surface you walk on? carpet? vinyl? tile? wood? ect.. each requires a different process to repair. can you see the frame and sub-floor at the squeak? If so have some one walk on the area while you watch and determine what is making the noise. if its sub-floor rubbing on frame, look for a broken screw and replace if found, inject some glue between the frame and sub-floor, put in a small wedge. anything to stop the movement.
If the noise is coming from between the finished and sub-floors that's a different procedure. but to go further we will need more information. - Sorry about the lack of information. It is a Jayco Pinnacle and the squeak is where the carpet is in the living room. I have a sealed underbelly and have not looked at what lies under it. I would imagine that it is between the underlayment and the subfloor.
- Is it near a cabinet?
- I had the same problem in my unit. It was about 5ft to the left of the entry door. Turned out to be a broken weld on one of the cross braces that go between the frame rails.
Had to open the bottom up and remove some insulation to get to the area of the squeak to find exactly what the problem was. Fixed the broken weld and everything been fine since.
Hope yours is a more simple fix.
sam - I had the same area squeaking on my Jayco Eagle Premier 5er. About 4' left of the door. Glad I had the 2 year warranty as it started squeaking almost the end of the second year. Don't know what the dealer did but they fixed it.
