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wallyiv
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Jul 18, 2016

2011 heartland slide floor

Hello everyone

My wife and i just purchased our first camper. We thought we looked everything over well. we got it home and gave it a bath and i noticed the slide floor was flaking. I looked at it closer and sure enough both ends of the slide are rooting out! I didn't think to look at the floor since the trailer is only 5 years old.
From the research that i found i guess this is a manufacture defect to this year trailer. They didn't install flashing to the sides. unbelievable!!!

So has anyone attempted to replace the floor themselves? From what i can see it looks like the floor would come out from the inside of the camper. I found a couple videos online but they are not specific to my camper.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks

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  • From the research that i found i guess this is a manufacture defect to this year trailer. They didn't install flashing to the sides. unbelievable!!!

    I don't think this is specific to your model trailer, I just found ours to be rotted on the ends of the dining room slide from lack of end flashing. Did you repair yours and what was involved? Just returned from a trip to Louisanna and noticed our slide was kicked inward at the bottom and when I started to adjust is when I found this problem. Has anyone else tackeled this issue. Any info would be helpful. Trailer is a 2008 Starwood LX by Monoco. Slide is just over 12 ft, were could you find 12' material for repair? Thank you
  • i had a 2009 heartland sundance mk2900 fifth wheel.bedroom slideout floor rotted away due to no flashing.heartland told me tooo bad out of warranty.i paid 2500 bucks for new bedroom slideout floor only to have walls delaminate!!!!particle board floor,sucks up water and expands!!good luck,i would trade it
  • Your best bet is the Heartland owners website....lots of information on this issue. One of many threads below...


    https://heartlandowners.org/showthread.php/50977-Slide-Floor-Delaminating?highlight=floor+replacement