What would u recommend?

FrankShore wrote:

goducks10 wrote:

theoldwizard1 wrote:
Some of the early "light" TT used some kind of "composite" floor. They became very soft within a year ot two.

Most (all?) have gone back to 3/4" plywood.

Grand Designs are composite laminated floors. The trend is to go as light as possible.

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Hey goducks10 :)

I was just looking at Grand Design (the TT line up) and didn't see any mention of "composite material" in any of the flooring. I was thinking that maybe you were talking about what Lance uses, (which is Azdel) or perhaps another lesser known composite material.

Do you know which models and layouts of the Grand Designs that have composite laminated floors? The Azdel or other brand of composite interests me, always - as you probably already know LOL :B Thank you for bringing up the use of Azdel in Grand Design, but I'm thinking it isn't Azdel but another "unnamed" manufacturer

I love to keep up on the industries construction and materials used - and to my way of thinking, it's the SINGLE most important things in any RV is and that's how they're actually constructed, the length of time it takes to put a trailer together, and then follow throughout with stringent quality control. Lance puts out on average 10 Travel Trailers a day and maybe 3 Truck Campers

It's all nice and idealistic to say that "floorplan" is the #1 factor, but it should always be design (Lance uses Solidworks, a CAD program on which they design the trailers, tweaking the CAD, make auto corrections, before the Lite-Ply (Lance gets Lity-Ply from Spain and Italy import a true "white wood" Birch) meets the CNC Routers. To me, this is much more important than worrying about the jackknife sofa is located or whatever

I'll be a Lance Fan all my life, and unless the quality falters, the materials cheapen, the other things that make a successful Lance caliber trailer, are diminished. AS it stands now, I'm not planning on upgrading my 1995. ts a terrific trailer, no problems at all, no warranty work was ever needed on the 1995.

Thanks again for the heads up on Grand Design (their unnamed composite material) And for listening to me rattle on!

If you look at the construction pics it looks like a laminated floor to me. It's not showing the usual 5/8" T&G ply or OSB on stringers.
It looks like a single layer of Luan on aluminum floor joists with foam insulation.
https://www.granddesignrv.com/showroom/2018/travel-trailer/imagine/construction
This is for the Imagine light weight models.