Slide Rollers

[RRyall]

We are giving serious consideration to removing the carpet, or at least most of it, in our rv and installing something else. Perhaps Allure or something similar. My question is that upon looking at the carpet for removal the large slide has no rollers under it but rather four plastic gliders attached to the floor near the outer wall. I wondered if removing the carpet, which appears to act as a bit of a cushion for the slide as it nears the coach center upon closing it, would have a negative effect or damage the new flooring if we do this. I would have thought there is a roller of some type under the inner edge of the slide floor, but there is not. Just the 4 glider pads and the heavy plastic or whatever on the slide bottom. Looking for some input from others who have done similar projects.

[RRyall]

rjxj wrote:

My whole slide floor is wrapped inside and out with a heavy black plastic sheeting so it doesn't seem compatible with laying wood of vinyl on it. I think it would be too spongy. I may just carpet the slide floor again and do vinyl on the main floor.

My smaller bunk slide has the black plastic/cloth on the bottom of it, but my larger main slide has a thick white plastic which covers the whole bottom in one piece. I just noticed the other day (don't know why I didn't see it before) that there are evenly spaced holes along the outer edge, which I'm sure are the screws holding the slide bottom to the wall bottom, but they are not sealed (yet). My main slide lays very snugly on the carpet when in, and not much above when out as the lip has a bevel cut rather than a squared edge. I'm trying to find out what others have done since there are no rollers on the slide bottom, even on the inner edge which I find a puzzling setup.

[azrving]

I also found this link and in the comments section they mention a felt protector for under the edge of the slide.

They made a hickory edge cap for the raised slide.

Floor

[azrving]

I'm also interested in alure or something like it and I think people have had issues with it being scratched as the slide comes in. My 2000 Coachmen has a raised slide and 4 rollers. From watching my slide come in what it seems like is that as the slide is about 1/2 way in, the leading edge starts to drop slightly until the top of the slide touches the outside of the rig and the bottom then sucks in tight and raises the front edge of the slide floor off of the main floor.

I have read threads where people had scratching of the flooring and my guess is that as I described and as you are seeing, the leading edge of the slide rubs the floor as it comes in. It's not rubbing real hard but right now it's just hitting the carpet and not doing any damage. The carpet can tolerate it but I can see it scratching wood or vinyl.

So far my idea is to place a long felt pad under the leading edge just before it begins to touch the main floor. Another issue that this brings up to me since I'm new to fifth wheels is that when using the rig with the slide in there is no support under the inner edge of the slide. I use four door stop type wedges under it when it's in just in case I step on the edge of the slide floor.

From what I can feel with my fingers around the rollers it seems as though luckily they didn't put the rollers on top of the carpet. I'm going to get and inspection camera thingy or flashlight and mirror to try and look under there before tearing it out.

My whole slide floor is wrapped inside and out with a heavy black plastic sheeting so it doesn't seem compatible with laying wood of vinyl on it. I think it would be too spongy. I may just carpet the slide floor again and do vinyl on the main floor.

[wirenutz]

same here, following

[timmac]

I am also going to do the same soon, was wondering about the slide rollers or glides not sure what mine are, was thinking of the allure snap together..

Will be watching this thread for ideas and what's the over all best hard floor.