Question about slides and wood rot?
Hey all I have made and offer on a 2007 Heartland Trailblazer. Here is the link to the camper click herehttp://stlouis.craigslist.org/rvs/4445542420.html I got the camper for 9500.00. I found about a...
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Personally I would not buy a rig I knew needed rot repair, I've repaired rotted rigs twice and have no interest in doing so again
I can tell you that I have never seen any rig with 2x4 framing, they don't exist.
How RVs are built is different then houses, they are bottom up and from inside out. That is to say the walls rest on the floor. Including in the slide. You might find you need to remove the slide from the rig to repair the floor.
The typical slide I've seen (moving up from the bottom) is the slide mechanism, then what is basically a stress-panel. That is a sandwich of plywood-foam insulation-plywood, with reinforcing members around the rim. I haven't seen a slide floor that wasn't insulated in, well, years. Our 99 was built that way
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You aren't going to like this
I went to NADA-Guides and found that, the actual low retail price, for a used rig in good condition, with no rot is $9100 That would imply the average private sale price would be more like $8000 to $9000, with no rot. With rot the discount would be something like you got from their price, I would guesstimate something like $6000 to $7000
The mistake a lot of people make, when the use NADA-Guides to get the price, is they fail to note the part that states "only select options that are not included standard equipment". They then add in the furnace, water-heater, refer. etc All those things that are already included in the base price,
In fact, for your model they note:" From 2005 to current, prices include A/C, awning, fantastic fan/rain sensor, home theater system (Bighorn only), DSI water heater, and stability jacks"
I can tell you that I have never seen any rig with 2x4 framing, they don't exist.
How RVs are built is different then houses, they are bottom up and from inside out. That is to say the walls rest on the floor. Including in the slide. You might find you need to remove the slide from the rig to repair the floor.
The typical slide I've seen (moving up from the bottom) is the slide mechanism, then what is basically a stress-panel. That is a sandwich of plywood-foam insulation-plywood, with reinforcing members around the rim. I haven't seen a slide floor that wasn't insulated in, well, years. Our 99 was built that way
----EDIT-----
You aren't going to like this
I went to NADA-Guides and found that, the actual low retail price, for a used rig in good condition, with no rot is $9100 That would imply the average private sale price would be more like $8000 to $9000, with no rot. With rot the discount would be something like you got from their price, I would guesstimate something like $6000 to $7000
The mistake a lot of people make, when the use NADA-Guides to get the price, is they fail to note the part that states "only select options that are not included standard equipment". They then add in the furnace, water-heater, refer. etc All those things that are already included in the base price,
In fact, for your model they note:" From 2005 to current, prices include A/C, awning, fantastic fan/rain sensor, home theater system (Bighorn only), DSI water heater, and stability jacks"
