myredracer wrote:
One thing about overall floor and frame construction I don't like is with all the enclosed under-bellies these days, you have absolutely no idea how well things were designed or how good the workmanship is. I'd love to see what the joists, frame and everything else looks like under our TT or ones on a dealer's lot, but I can't.
It's great for the manufacturers because they can hide all kinds of problems under the coroplast. They can call the construction heavy duty or whatever they want, but what does it really look like? And if it's related to the frame in any way, they just direct you to the frame manufacturer to duke it out with.
I was at one RV show last year and I was jumping (lightly) on the floor in one TT with a BAL/Norco Ultra-frame to see how solid it felt (I'm not a heavy person either at well under 200 lbs). Some guy came in who I'm pretty sure was a dealer or factory rep. and he freaked out and said don't do that or you can go through the floor. Maybe he knows something the rest of us don't. Not very re-assuring if that's all it takes to go through a TT floor.
That issue about the underbelly access is easily and for a moderate cost fixable ... take a look at what I did
CLICKYLarry
