Jack repair wood frame water damage 98 caribou

I am at about a month due to weather and work and turkey season. I should have been done by now but almost. I have about a day to day and a half left. Maybe next week Im getting A honey do list done for Easter.

What is your length of time from start to where you are. It's starting to look good again.

Your posts are over the past month.

I've done a few and I end up taking 3 months worth of weekend to complete something ""this simple"". Am I too slow or are you just fast.

The wife would prefer I pay someone but I like knowing what I have when I'm finished.

Now for the left side repair as you can see much less dry rot but still in need of repair.








I am still working on a few more things but almost done

I'm not sure of the facts, but I've been told not to allow Aluminum to come into contact with the copper based preservatives,as it will cause severe corrosion.

Since it looks like you are all fiberglass and wood you should be good.

Great job. Thanks for update and Pics.

Well I got a little more done today. I finished framing new wood in and added second coat of copper green. I also cut and installed new insulation. Tomorrow I will be getting the wood hardener applied and start working on the laminate prep for install.

Just a quick update I used copper green and minwax wood hardener instead of Git-Rot. Its about half the price and a local RV repair told me its how they do the same repairs. I applied copper green today and worked on stripping the lauan of the wing. I will apply second coat of copper green tomorrow and put in the insulation board. Not really much to take pics today but I will tomorrow when much more progress.

Thanks guys on info to remove the lauan backing. I will be using Git-Rot on much of the wood, It is hard to decide wear to stop on the tear down. It looks like I will not have to tear the sides off just the back. I will be working on it a little more today and will update with more pics.

Goodness! That's what I was afraid I'd find when I started the skirt replacement on mine. Fortunately, the rot didn't extend up into the walls. Rebuilding a camper like this without totally destroying it is almost an art. You have to constantly evaluate how far you're going to take your repairs, and the implications of removing that "next piece".

Before closing the walls back up, I'd recommend replacing all of the fiberglass insulation with pink or blue foam board. It doesn't absorb water like the fiberglass, and probably has a better R value. It's easy to cut with a box cutter, or you can cut it on a table-saw like I did and get them perfectly sized to the voids they fit in.

If you have a swimming pool you might try putting the skin panel in it to help remove the lauan backing. Otherwise, keeping it wet somehow is going to be your best bet.

On my repair, I've found that the two most useful tools have been my Rockwell Sonicrafter and my Porter-Cable heatgun. A heatgun may also help getting the plywood backing off the filon.

Good luck with the rest of the repair.

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You could get some Git-Rot and put it onto the old wood you left plus the new wood you used to really help stop any further decay. Do the research and look at some of the videos, that stuff is really amazing.