Vinyl flooring cracked. How to fix?
Over a very cold winter, the vinyl flooring in my ‘07 Surveyor cracked almost all the way across right where my heat register is in the floor. Has this happened to anyone else? How did you fix it, and...
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Harvard wrote:cullivoe wrote:
Over a very cold winter, the vinyl flooring in my ‘07 Surveyor cracked almost all the way across right where my heat register is in the floor. Has this happened to anyone else? How did you fix it, and with that product?
During the winter, was this TT parked on 3 points (wheels and tongue jack ONLY) or was it also sitting on corner blocks?
My theory is that there will be no cold weather damage to the flooring if it is parked on 3 points over winter.
It has nothing to do with how the trailer is supported. If your frame bends enough to damage the flooring, you have a whole lot of other damage going on and the flooring is the least of your concerns.
Basically plastics become brittle with age. Components of plastic evaporate over time (new car smell...that's plastics off gassing). At some point, the combination of the flooring shrinking due to cold and increased brittleness reach a point where it can't stretch enough and the flooring splits at a stress point...typically a corner cut such as around a vent.
Not much you can do now except replace with new or live with it.
