Water damaged floor. Repair tips?
I have a 1985 shasta travel trailer which I am renovating to live in during the warmer months. We got the camper at an extremely (and understandably) low cost, knowing there was some water damage in t...
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If you want livable temporary housing, I would suggest constructing (or purchasing) a decent-sized shed and moving the RV appliances and other desirable bits and pieces into said shed as desired. I think it would be a lot easier and faster and give a better result. Zoning, if applicable, may be a bit harder—although technically you may need zoning permits to use an RV long-term for housing, too. In at least parts of Maine, it likely doesn't matter much in practice.
rjxj has given pretty good advice too, IMHO. The side/end walls are probably junk, and quite possibly some of the ceiling structure. To do things properly, you'd be building the end of a trailer. If you aren't moving, the metal on the underside is probably less essential; any sort of a sheet of something should be more or less adequate to keep critters and weather out if you keep the grass mowed down from it and have some sort of a drip edge to prevent rain from running down the wall and around the corner.
rjxj has given pretty good advice too, IMHO. The side/end walls are probably junk, and quite possibly some of the ceiling structure. To do things properly, you'd be building the end of a trailer. If you aren't moving, the metal on the underside is probably less essential; any sort of a sheet of something should be more or less adequate to keep critters and weather out if you keep the grass mowed down from it and have some sort of a drip edge to prevent rain from running down the wall and around the corner.
