Wood frame Walls vs. Aluminum

[MorMJS]

After a little over 1 year with our trailer our expanding family has us considering up sizing. Some of the new trailers we are looking at are wood framed walls, so what would be the benefit or downside compared to our aluminum framed walls we currently own?
We have looked at some floorplans from Nash, Artic fox, Jayco, and Timber ridge.

[Tequila]

Trackrig wrote:
If you get a slow roof leak and the water runs slowing down the insides of the wall or stays up in the ceiling causing the wood framing to rot out. With aluminum framing you'll still have repairs to make, but you'll know the framing is still solid and it's worth repairing. The aluminum framing also probably makes the trailer lighter if everything else was exactly the same.

Bill

Sounds good in theory, but once you get water in the walls you have delamination and it probably wont be worth the expense to fix it anyway.

[MorMJS]

All good info, one of the only things I could think of being that I live in CA our roads here are the worst, and maybe aluminum would hold up better..Thats all I could think of.

[n7bsn]

Some of the best made rigs are wood-framed, the others are aluminum.
What matters is how well they are made, not which they are made of.

[DutchmenSport]

I've had both. I don't see any difference. It could be the design years apart, but my wood framed trailer had skin on the outside, skin on the inside and fiberglass insulation in the middle. My aluminum framed trailer has skin on the outside, skin on the inside, and styrofoam in the middle. There again, it could be a design change over time. But that's the only noticeable difference I've been able to find.

[therink]

I have owned both. In my opinion it is simply a matter of cost, cosmetics, preference,etc.. I think fiberglass is easier to maintain if you keep it waxed.
The main thing with all rvs is preventing leaks from the day you drive off the dealers lot and checking every roof and other seams before you sign the paperwork.

[Trackrig]

If you get a slow roof leak and the water runs slowing down the insides of the wall or stays up in the ceiling causing the wood framing to rot out. With aluminum framing you'll still have repairs to make, but you'll know the framing is still solid and it's worth repairing. The aluminum framing also probably makes the trailer lighter if everything else was exactly the same.

Bill

[Tequila]

Probably nothing. If either leak you are in trouble. Floors are all wood.