Why Does Delamination Bother So Many People?

pnichols wrote:
This may sound like it's either real dumb, or making sense ... in order to save a $$$ RV from the scrap heap:

Why can't one put small screws, spaced out within the delaminated area, all the way through the walls with washers on both sides and a nut in the inner side. Seal carefully around the screw head/washer on the outside as you're tightening it down and then paint the screw head/washer to blend in with the outside coach walls. Paint the screw head/washer on the inside to best you can to blend in with the interior wall surface (some may even be inside cabinets) where the washers and nut are on the inside after cutting off the excess screw length to be flush with the nut.

It seems like this could be carefully done so as to not look too klugey ... better than throwing away an otherwise good RV. After all, some RVs have an aluminum skin with rivet heads every few inches all along the outside seams and we think it's cool. Some expedition RVs have all kinds of stuff bolted/attached to the outside walls and we think it's cool.

See ... I said it might be a real dumb idea. :(

I thought along the same way when I had some delamination. What I was going to do was to add an fake air scoop or a decorative emblem on the outside and screw it on the delaminated area to flatten it out. What I finally decided was to fix it by removing the windows and re bonding with polyurethane adhesive. Knowing what I know now I would use the adhesive and the emblem it would be a lot less work.