Chalet with a rotted basement floor

kerry4951 wrote:
So sorry to hear of your problem. It sounds more like a major structural failure in the floor area. Its hard to imagine that you would have that much rot in just 2 years, plus like you mentioned I would think you would of seen signs of water leakage at some point during its use, especially to cause that much rot in such a short time span. I hope you can find a solution. Being I also live in the east I can feel for you and realize how inconvenient a repair trip to the factory could be.
Maybe try someone like Truck Camper Warehouse in NH (also a location on Long Island) since I know he is very familiar with TCs and he sells Chalet. Plus he does do some pretty major repair work.

Not to hijack thread: but you can DEFINATELY get structural rot that will lead to a complete failure and see no signs inside. Our 2014 TC was purchased June 2013 and used June/July/Aug/Sept. Covered mid-Sept '13 and uncovered July 4, 2014. Used for 2 trips and suddenly Aug. 8th we saw water dripping from under the cab over. Pushed up on cab over and it sloshed! Took it back for warranty work (750 miles one way) and it had been leaking since new. The wood was completely black and rotted on passenger side cab over from roof to jacks. Inside still smelled "new" and looked pristine. One more year and it would have failed and dumped us onto our truck's roof.... it took approx. 30 hours to re-build.

Of course my TC is wood framed, not aluminum. But I just wanted to jump in and say, yes, you can get rot that bad with no signs. We had even spent 3 hrs. at the start of the season washing and re-caulking any minute areas that looked iffy. And we still missed an area that wasn't obvious. DIY leak testing is now part of our pre-season and post season chores.