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Mrsmoos
Explorer
May 11, 2016

Slideouts and Carpet vs Hard flooring

In our seemingly never ending quest to buy a older Class A, we have run across a few with slideouts. Our old 5th wheel trailer had a slideout as well. They all seem to have carpet-or at least partial carpeting. Why? Why do slideouts have carpeting on/around them? Is it because they flex or? And what should we avoid if looking at one with a slideout?
TIA
Class A
  • Yankee_Clipper's avatar
    Yankee_Clipper
    Explorer
    May 12, 2016
    Sometimes it involves how the slide moves across the floor of the cabin, and in my rig the slide uses the carpet as a friction base to ease the movement of the slide. If I were to re-surface the cabin, I would have to put in new carpet anyway, or the bottom of the slide would chew up the new planking or whatever.
    HTH.
  • fairway2002's avatar
    fairway2002
    Explorer
    May 12, 2016
    The slides can't handle the weight of tile. But I did see the new Newmar has tile in slides.
  • 1ofmany's avatar
    1ofmany
    Explorer
    May 12, 2016
    Stormy Eyes wrote:
    As one salesman said to me, " they carpeted everything back then."
    ...and that was/is the cheapest way to go, and to hide a multitude of sins.
  • dougrainer's avatar
    dougrainer
    Nomad
    May 11, 2016
    Because the type design of those particular slide rooms and how it glides along the main floor will not cause damage when gliding over carpet. Once Tile/Wood/Lino was optioned they designed the slide rooms with rollers or a system where the room would not damage that type material. Doug

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