No floor joists in 2001 trail-lite 30' tt!
Recently aquired a 30' 2001 trail lite tt. Noticed right away the floor was weak through almost entire high traffic areas. Took off a few metal panels underneath and discovered they made these with no...
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mgirardo wrote:
Once the vacuum of the initial install is broken, the floor will be soft or spongy.
I would use the word "seal" or "adhesion", but you are 100% correct.
If you look sideways at that type of flooring and then imagine it is an I-beam. An I-beam is strong because the center vertical piece (webbing) does not allow any movement between the upper and lower sections (called a "flange" on a real I-beam).
Steel/aluminum I-beams are made as one piece, A wooden I-beam (common is houses these days) would fail if the adhesive that that connects the top flange to the web or the web to the bottom flange failed.
The most robust flooring is aluminum decking. Plywood decking will fail if it has standing water on it for sometime (like a roof/window leak during storage).
