Repairing soft floor in my wolf creek

anutami wrote:
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions

Now I’m scratching my head, I removed the table leg insert and there appears to be reinforced with more plywood than I thought but could this just be around the table legs or is the entire floor have this much wood? I find it hard to imagine they reinforced the table legs but the area that sees the most use gets a thin piece of luan



I don’t think I will have much clearance for this storage nook if I put another type of flooring down so now back to the drawing board.



I guess I will just have to live with a soft floor :(

If you glue even 1/4 inch of plywood over the entire floor it should stabilize your issue.
As for that storage area, move the hinges to the far end and the latch to the near end like it should have been made to begin with. If needed you can rip 1/4 inch off the bottom of the door and it will never be seen.

Anutami wrote:
Pretty sure the top layer of 1/4" luan has weakened and its pushing into the foam layer. The underside luan portion is holding strong. I think the only way to tackle this is from the top side.

....I think that you nailed the issue 100%. The "floor sandwich"....top layer of Lauan/ply is simply deflecting into the bead-board because not enough aluminum cross-members are there to resist deflection, and walking (a foot is a small footprint) compresses the bead-board...permanently.

Just lay down a dense/thick (deflection resistant) bamboo (rot-proof) interlocking floor over the vinyl.

anutami wrote:
Thanks for all the replies and suggestions

Did you happen to ask the manufacturer about it? I’m just wondering if this is what they expect since two of you seem to have the same symptom.

Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli wrote:
Is this the same camper?

Lol yeah If I would have know then what I know now I should have dropped the tanks and reinforced it, or better yet I should have ordered the camper as a kit and put it together myself!!!

The wife and I were sitting in the camper just now having this discussion. The cabinet door and the knee wall doors will both have clearance issues when it comes to laying down wood. Even 3/8 will be a challenge. Short of dropping the fresh tank, working from below to install some support, I don't see a way around it.

We came to the same conclusion: Too much work. Live with soft floor until it really needs repaired.

Thanks for all the replies and suggestions

Now I’m scratching my head, I removed the table leg insert and there appears to be reinforced with more plywood than I thought but could this just be around the table legs or is the entire floor have this much wood? I find it hard to imagine they reinforced the table legs but the area that sees the most use gets a thin piece of luan



I don’t think I will have much clearance for this storage nook if I put another type of flooring down so now back to the drawing board.



I guess I will just have to live with a soft floor :(

Look at the floor construction.
It's a sandwiched floor with two thin layers plywood glued to a foam panel. My guess is the sandwiched panel glue has failed and the three layers are sliding against each other, no longer a rigid sandwiched panel layer. It looks like the tub below the floor surface is a couple inches narrower than the floor width to exterior cabin walls. I think you could remove your carpet and lay at least 5/8" plywood over your floor tight fitting wall to wall. Make a cardboard template and then cut out the plywood then test fit. When you have a good fit, you can spread some panel adhesive over the floor then lay the plywood over it and set a bunch of weight over the panel while glues drying. It looks that this will ride over the frame of the under tub side walls so it will be fully supported on the sides. It sounds like the aluminum cross framing in the floor is on 30 inch spacing and that would place a large unsupported area right under the sink work area. At 30" back from the front of the TC wall behind the cab, I bet your floor is pretty solid.

anutami wrote:

Pretty sure the top layer of 1/4" luan has weakened and its pushing into the foam layer. The underside luan portion is holding strong. I think the only way to tackle this is from the top side...

I agree with addressing from the top. Adding support under top floor sheet would work IF you removed bottom luan, cut channels in the bonded foam to insert stringers to under side of floor. Adding supports under the bottom luan sheet wouldn't do much as its the foam that's allowing top sheet to flex...1/4"? what were they thinking. No internal structure, just external frame looking at linked diagram-wow.

anutami wrote:


at 15:35 you can see what the floor looks like, it appears the arctic fox is much thicker than the WC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9rmC2iacvI

Of course it is. AF's are heavy AF. LoL :B