Siding replacement
Siding on signature TT has seen a couple of hailstorms over the years and is starting to look like a square golf ball. If I replace it I'm not using the same tin-foil siding it came with. Is th...
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Ralph Cramden wrote:dougrainer wrote:
"The RV manufacturers get the stuff dirt cheap. A lot actually roll their own."
You know this HOW? I have NEVER seen any RV maker that had their own aluminum plant to "roll" their own Metal siding.
I know it because I watched them do it. The machinery needed to roll that siding is a drop in the bucket when compared to the jigs, tables, and presses they have in a dedicated plant for making laminated walls and floors, but I suppose they don't have those either. The space needed to set up a line to roll RV siding amounts to about a 2 car garage. It's not much different than the seamless gutter guy who rolls gutters out the rear of a box van.
WHAT OEM? I have worked in the RV business 44 years. I UNLOADED pallets of Metal for Coachmen when I was in High school and ALL the Metal we have replaced in the 38 years as a Tech the OEM's NEVER had the metal. They had to have THEIR supplier to make the required metal OR until a few years ago there were regional Metal fabricators that would build the RV metal to the OEM specs. Now, if you are comparing Laminated, we are talking S lock metal siding that is manually hung. You are comparing Apples and Oranges. Doug
