Rotted out under-tub Caribou 8
Just a heads-up to those with Outfitter Caribou units with wooden tub: there is some kind of very cheap furniture veneer under the entire tub glued to the floor XPS foam and aluminum beams. This has a...
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Thanks Travelnutz.
I think at this point, we need to sell it to someone who has a month or 3 to devote exclusively to tearing the unit apart. Repairing it ourselves will be a very, VERY daunting task. I think every piece of tub wood needs to be removed and inspected (this means disassembling the entire camper in 2 pieces: the removal of the tub, and upper wall section, using a crane, or building support walls, because some structural pieces are pretty well shot: the under-wings hold up the camper). The most important structural components of our camper are the weakest part of the build: the under-wing and the tub upon which the rest of the unit sits. One lynch pin (about 1% of the camper structure, the material costing about $40) that if it fails, the camper is unusable but perhaps as a guest cabin in back of the house. I found more rot: the vertical tub wall that supports the entire rear end.
My World-view doesn't include building or repairing catastrophic damage to campers. Too many more important things to accomplish.
I think at this point, we need to sell it to someone who has a month or 3 to devote exclusively to tearing the unit apart. Repairing it ourselves will be a very, VERY daunting task. I think every piece of tub wood needs to be removed and inspected (this means disassembling the entire camper in 2 pieces: the removal of the tub, and upper wall section, using a crane, or building support walls, because some structural pieces are pretty well shot: the under-wings hold up the camper). The most important structural components of our camper are the weakest part of the build: the under-wing and the tub upon which the rest of the unit sits. One lynch pin (about 1% of the camper structure, the material costing about $40) that if it fails, the camper is unusable but perhaps as a guest cabin in back of the house. I found more rot: the vertical tub wall that supports the entire rear end.
My World-view doesn't include building or repairing catastrophic damage to campers. Too many more important things to accomplish.
