Molded Fiberglass Trailers
Long time reader and first time poster. I have done a lot of reading about trailers and from time to time I read that molded fiberglass trailers are better. Yet in the marketplace there are few man...
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I owned a Burro trailer for a couple of years. I think the big rv companies may not see the molded trailers as a good fit for their relatively rapid assembly line production methods.
A molded body does not have nearly so many linear feet of potential leak points as a conventional stick-built unit has. Eliminating the seams between roof and walls still leaves the windows, doors, vents, and plumbing to leak, nevertheless that is a big reduction in eventual leak risk.
If a stick built body leaks, one can quickly get mold or rot inside the walls, delamination, etc. If a molded fiberglass unit leaks at a window seam or something, one gets wet cushions. (But if left untreated for years, floor rot can still develop in some brands, if the water stands for too long.)
I owned a Burro trailer for a couple of years. I think the big rv companies may not see the molded trailers as a good fit for their relatively rapid assembly line production methods.
A molded body does not have nearly so many linear feet of potential leak points as a conventional stick-built unit has. Eliminating the seams between roof and walls still leaves the windows, doors, vents, and plumbing to leak, nevertheless that is a big reduction in eventual leak risk.
If a stick built body leaks, one can quickly get mold or rot inside the walls, delamination, etc. If a molded fiberglass unit leaks at a window seam or something, one gets wet cushions. (But if left untreated for years, floor rot can still develop in some brands, if the water stands for too long.)
