Why aren't travel trailers made this way ?
People have complained about the build quality of TT for years. The biggest disaster is a water leak. These typically occur at the roof seam or around a window. Once the water get inside the wall i...
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That single piece aluminum roof looks to be built about the same as the single piece fiberglass roof on our 24 foot Spirit (Winnebago Itasca) Class C motorhome:
1. Nicely crowned for good vertical strength (for walking on and air conditioner support) and water runoff.
2. The roof has an edge with about a 3 inch roll-over all along the top of both sidewalls so that the sidewalls end up inside the roof's rolled over edge.
3. Both the front and rear end caps are large with a lot of overlap.
Also, regarding the trailer in that photo:
1. Is that trailer's substructure steel or aluminum instead of wood?
2. Will that trailer's aluminum roof get dented in a hail storm?
3. There's a lot of rivets in those (one piece?) sidewalls and endwalls. Do aluminum rivets ever corrode/oxidize and then let water in around the rivet's shaft?
1. Nicely crowned for good vertical strength (for walking on and air conditioner support) and water runoff.
2. The roof has an edge with about a 3 inch roll-over all along the top of both sidewalls so that the sidewalls end up inside the roof's rolled over edge.
3. Both the front and rear end caps are large with a lot of overlap.
Also, regarding the trailer in that photo:
1. Is that trailer's substructure steel or aluminum instead of wood?
2. Will that trailer's aluminum roof get dented in a hail storm?
3. There's a lot of rivets in those (one piece?) sidewalls and endwalls. Do aluminum rivets ever corrode/oxidize and then let water in around the rivet's shaft?
