Dirty carpet from slide

[Fisherguy]

Our 2007 Komfort trailer has Lippert slides. Before our last trip I cleaned the carpet near the main slide and by the time we got home it was dirty in a couple spots from the slide going in and out a few times.

I don't know if there's rollers under there or what, if I extend it and bring it in a few inches will it be safe to run a beam under it near the trailer and jack it up far enough to look underneath?

Anyone have experience with this vintage Kommfort trailers?

[BFL13]

DReisinger wrote:
I did laminate flooring after removing the carpet. When the slide starts in, it raises an inch or two, sliding the edge of throw rug under the leading edge of the slide prevents scratching of the laminate.

Aha! Good tip.

I call that white plastic thing at the floor edge a "round-down" (as in the after end of a carrier's flight deck) and also the "hump" in case a translation is needed. 🙂

[DReisinger]

I did laminate flooring after removing the carpet. When the slide starts in, it raises an inch or two, sliding the edge of throw rug under the leading edge of the slide prevents scratching of the laminate.

[ScottG]

Fisherguy wrote:
Thanks guys.
Ya it's a rack and pinion type, I'd like to sneak a peak underneath just to see if there's anything at all as a slide or if it just slides on the carpet.
I think I have a rock or something in there, the darco on the bottom of the slide looks like it's got something marking it up in one spot.

It either slides on rollers or more often, it slides across a long white (or natural nylon color) edge as it comes in. If you lift the capret inside you will see it.
Mine ended up getting broken on out last TT so I installed rollers. A big job but it sure worked better.

[Fisherguy]

Thanks guys.
Ya it's a rack and pinion type, I'd like to sneak a peak underneath just to see if there's anything at all as a slide or if it just slides on the carpet.
I think I have a rock or something in there, the darco on the bottom of the slide looks like it's got something marking it up in one spot.

[ScottG]

If it's a rack and pinion system, you can jack it up an inch or so when it's out. Everything will just rise and give slightly just as it does when the slide goes in or out and "nests". No problem unless you lift it so high it hits the wall over the top of the slide.
I think what you'll find is a piece of black seal rubs on the carpet. Sometimes that bit of seal is just extra that wasn't trimmed properly and sometimes it's very necessary. You have to figure that out.
Brake cleaner will take it out of the carpet and wont hurt the rug at all. You have to use lots as it just rinses away the black. Scrubbing with it doesn't work well.
If you have a Schwinntec system I would not lift it.

[BFL13]

IMO don't do that. Don't know what would happen down under where it is on the rails.

When the slide is out, from outside under there you can get at the long outer-lower edge of the round-down the silde bottom rides up on. It could be all grungy there and that is what might be getting on the carpet. There is a seal at the bottom of the slide I suppose to keep road gunk from getting up in there, but ours went bad after a few years so I wouldn't count on that much.

With the slide just starting to come in when it is high up off the floor you can see if the front of the slide bottom is dirty (you being inside the trailer). You can see the rest of the slide bottom when it is out (and you being outside).

There doesn't seem to be anything under there like rollers. I wanted to remove the bit of carpet along the edge of the floor by the hump and go all tiling, but Komfort told me to leave a little (2-3 inches that would be hidden under the slide's carpet flap) carpet there so the slide would go in right and not scratch the floor.

Of course I ignored that, and sure enough there are a couple of scratches on the tiling. No idea what can be doing the scratching. It is all a limiter on any idea of doing a reno with nice wood flooring and no carpet (with dogs it is better with no carpet) and there is no room for additional floor height anyway.

The original tiles by the doorway and in the kitchen were stuck on the floor OSB and getting them off damaged the top of the OSB, which is really difficult to repair to get a smooth top on, since many fillers are wet and just makes things worse. And naturally there is no height allowance for just slapping a new wood floor on top of the damaged OSB.