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happybooker1
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Mar 10, 2013

Need help with wet floor

My HTT (Wildwood 17EXL 2010) has been sitting since last October. Today I went out to clean it really good. The linoleum -- if you can call it that-- was cracked by the door. It's like some papery /cardboardy stuff with faux wood grain on top. It tore really easily. Underneath the flooring is wet but not rotted. I couldn't stick a screwdriver into it.

It rained really hard last night for the first time in a couple of weeks. Obviously I have a leak but where? And I need to replace all the flooring because there's a couple holes/tears in it in other places. It's really cheap stuff.






How would i go about finding where the leak is? I'm guessing somewhere on the roof or around the door frame. I'm a single older woman who is not into replacing the entire floor. Please direct me to some posts where fixing this kind of problem has been discussed.

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  • If it were me I would take to a rv service that does pressure leak testing. Make sure to check any seams in your roofing and around all roof penetrations. It is very important that you find the source of the leak before making any repairs. It has probably been leaking for some time--I don't think you would find the flooring cracking after only one hard rain. As other have said make sure to completely dry it out before doing any repairs. Good luck.
  • Don't use a nozzle with the water hose while leak locating. With the defective flooring removed it should be easier to locate the leak.
  • I agree...rip up the vinyl flooring and let it dry completely before recovering. You should probably treat the floor with a mold killer/sealer before redoing it "just in case". But before you do that, as another poster suggested, go inside and have someone hose down the outside until you can find the leak. Only then will you know what you are up against.

    Good luck...leaks are such a horrid misery to chase down and fix!
  • Hate to say it but the best thing you could do is rip that flooring out and let that floor dry completely. Put a fan in there for a few days. If you dont get it dry, you will get mould under the flooring. Not good for your health. After that consider getting someone to do a low pressure air test and find the source of the leak before you replace the flooring. No point in fixing the floor with the leak still there.
  • More proof they spare no expense when they build these things… good luck…

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