Camper Floor Replacement Without Removing Cabinets - Weekend Warrior FK2100
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I bought this camper and got ripped off because the seller hid a rotted floor in the front. So here I am retrofit / installing the new floor in my camper, and talking about other things that I did or want to do. I just used plywood to make the floor of the camper. I had to lift up the cabinets and walls so the plywood would slide under the walls and cabinets and all the way to the end of the trailer frame. I had to piece in the floor like a puzzle in order to get it under the cabinets. To take the camper cabinets out, I would have to remove the outer siding of the camper, because the cabinets are screwed in from the outside before the siding is put on. This is a 2007 Weekend Warrior fk2100. This trailer was built around the time when the Weekend Warrior company went out of business because of a lawsuit involving all kinds of problems with Weekend Warrior campers at the time. It's a 25' toy hauler and has great user features, sadly it was built very poorly like most campers.
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Here is a video of the finished floors: th-cam.com/video/pPuepqvZayY/w-d-xo.html
i feel i simply MUST tell you what your videos have meant to me today. I am a widow of 1 yr, my husband having been killed in a motorcycle crash -long story short, i had to let my house go & stay in the camper until i can get back up. As luck would have it, the back half of the floor is about to fall through 😣. Looking around, it's clear that I have no one to help me so looks like it's time to put my big girl panties on and redo this rotten floor by myself. As scared as I am to attempt this I really have no choice. Combing TH-cam for help has left me in tears for 4 days Until I found You! watching your videos has given me a glimmer of hope that perhaps just maybe I can do this. Never in these videos do you sit and complain or list the number of reasons why I should feel defeated. you don't say it's easy but you never say to give up, you just do it& That has given me the confidence to get up from this bed & start. However coincidental it may be, going through your videos i notice videos about doing things to my year model Honda accord Which I will have a to repair myself as well & seeing that you have videos on this too, has lifted some bricks from my shoulders. I will be starting to tear up the floor today here in North Carolina. Everyone please send positive thoughts my way because I can't help but second-guess myself but I've got to do it. Again thank you so much for these videos! Have a great day
I feel the very same way as you! Filled with complete dread, and this guy has been the biggest Inspiration I've found on TH-cam regarding this issue. We're you succesful?
Wish you all the best and hopefully everything is going good for you 🤗
I've been trying to talk myself out of doing a 24ft but you've sealed my fate . Thanks for the vid
I don’t know you but after watching your video I’m so proud of you for DIY and sharing your work. I bought my toy hauler with the same floor issue, in front of the kitchen area. It seems the first owner started the work but decided not to move forward and sold this trailer to me. We still live with it and haven’t fix the damage yet. Awesome job and thank you for the video.
Thank you sir, good luck with your trailer!
I have been looking for a video showing me how to replace a rotted floor for months. This is perfect. Thanks for the information.
All the camper floor videos on TH-cam and yours is the best. Thanks for the great video with the right information
You remind me of my lifelong (I'm 60 years old) friend who I respectfully call 'McGyver"
I admire your creative problem solving and patience in the face of frustration.
I know, how much work this is and you did a great job! Once you discover one thing, you uncover more. Never straight forward but you persevered!👏🙂
Inspirational at the very least. A 4' section of flooring in my pop up is rotted so I have to improvise a partial floor replacement. I enjoy problem solving like you seem to. First thing today is to fix the leak that caused all this. I will not be negligent in looking after my camper again. Thanks for the video and I subscribed.
I'm currently shopping for a used motorhome and this should be required watching!! Nice work - at least you'll know it's solid and not have to worry about falling through the floor while doing the wild thing!
I just bought a new Coachman toy hauler and have been fixing all the factory screw-ups. You have more patience then me. Good job!
When caravan is parked put the jockey wheel up so the water runs off the back. Thank you for sharing your tenacious hard work.
Wow!! You did some STUFF! Thanks for sharing. We got scammed too and wouldn’t have discovered our floor issues except that it just got really hot here (Mississippi) and the laminate floors started peeling up in places. I pulled some back today and, sure enough, rot. Unbelievable how crooked people can be; so wrong. I hope ours isn’t as bad but if so, I hope we handle it like you did. Impressive work. Thank you for sharing.
Awesome video series man. Exactly what I needed to see in order to repair my soft floor in front of my kitchen
Seriously impressed! You did a fantastic job! Hoping to get someone to help with my camper repairs, probably going to have to hire some help.
Props to your dedication and effort. I would NOT have that kind of motivation.
I wish you could just come here to help!😭 but these videos are so helpful 😭
Thank you sir.. right to the point without the drama.. this helps
Thanks buddy, im having similar problems but its under my bed storage/cabinets
Good to see they dont have to all come out i didnt know where tf to start
Reckon ima start cutting the black tarp under it and see how bad it is
Dude said the roof leaked and he fixed it but the floors are rotten along the walls and under the cabinets is what i didnt notice because it was under the storage box x.x
great work! i have them same toy hauler and have a soft spot randomly in the middle, now i know its the fresh water tank!!! thanks
Amazing & I thought I had the know how on how to do things, very smart & talented with fixing things..
great job...I am about to tackle a similar job on an old RV 1975!
I think you have done a great job
Dude, you have patients! Damn good work you do!
Awesome video! Your bathroom looks similar to mine. I had to replace the floor and wasnt happy with my small tub and toilet so i put a 38 inch stand up shower in and a house toilt. I made a small video of it.
Thank you.
Carry-on.
looks like a giant jig saw puzzle... looks good
thanks, haha it was the toughest 8 piece jigsaw i've ever put together
You the man bro.
I have a pop up tent trailer I'm working on I have rotting in the chip board I am planning on replacing the whole piece of flooring. I'm hoping I can replace it without having to pull out the cabinets like you have done here. It's my first time ever doing this I want to do it right I just hope I dont make the wrong choice by starting to tear out the floor with the cabinets in still 😬
Doing a subfloor very similar,but more near the very back near kitchen sink that leaked
OMG 😱 that was lots of work
You can use housewrap glued underneath a final layer of thin replaceable ply.
Wow, that seems like a very frustrating project! I was thinking of buying a cheap trailer to live in traveling with my job, but I don't think I'll have time to do all that.
You did a good job sure your family is proud of you, enjoy it and be safe.
Thank you it means a lot! Be well!
Congrats excellent job. Is not easy to replace floor in trailers.
Well i am bringing home a camper tonight that was a bad spot in the floor. Now I am fruking scared!
Keep in mind...here in Australia anyway, they build a caravan(camper) backwards.
I think they build em backwards here too 😂
You re a stud or an amazing handyman WOW Shit I would have soused it in gasoline ans started a huge bon fire
Your good very clever
I bought my RV 2 years ago and have decided to do a complete remodel. I'm so nervous about pulling my floors up. You should come help me :)
Hopefully you install a vent cover over the roof vents. keeps the rain out if the vent is open.
I would like to, I need to find a 6 pack deal
Doing a great job, looking for part 3. Not able to locate it. Would love to see finished product.
Hey thanks, I don't have a part 3 yet, but I hope to have one soon. I finished up the floor recently after stopping the project over the winter.
How long did it take to compete the flooring? I just got a camper and found a lot more damage than expected.
Very nice work. Guess these WW toy haulers are notorious for leaks. They just pumped them out with no QA. I had a window installed inside out.
Wow! They definitely lacked QA and experience.
Oh my gosh great 2nd video the first left me optimist, but now i am so worried i may be in shock. I to bought a shady deal, but live full time and no recourse's to dyi it my self at 62 and PAY FOR A MOTEL. I wish i could get a question or 2 answered by YOU, it is late, got to get to sleep but if i could ask U 1 it would be would it be possibe to do in secions like bedroom then main area then if i have but now it dosnt seem like the bedroom, but even as i am typing i am remembering your procedure... with the walls needing to be jacked up as you went along.. 1979 coachman Catalina... can we still get a copy of the owners manuals from somewhere. did learn something BUYER BE WARE and i would do that to someone else it is wrong.
really great video. thank you and subscibed.
I have foam insulation under mine. I notice you didn't have any. Is it needed?
What did you use to replace black membrane underneath the trailer?
Shouldn't use traps on plumbing in campers it holds water and will freeze and bust. But great video and great job
The sinks have traps but it makes sense that the shower wouldn't, since the plumbing is hard to get to. Luckily there wasn't enough room so I didn't add the trap.
Great video what size thickness of plywood did you use for the floor
thank you, 3/4"
Thanks for sharing... how much did you spend on replacing the floor including the plywood
maybe around 400-500
Nice job..I might of used cement board in the bathroom and sink area..just idea for some one in the future.....but great job ..shy didn’t you run the fridge tube straight down and out the bottom of the floor and you will never have to remember to pull it out..
Hi there . I watched your floor removal too. Great job!!! I have to replace the front section(shower and toliet area) of floor in my 05 carson fun runner. I currently live in my trailer so doing a lot of research before I tear anything up. I looked underneath and there is no center beam for the floor to sit on. Just the outer frame on front and both sides than the 1 cross rail which is in between the holding tanks. 3 feet from the front. Im gonna have to add a center support and it look like I only have about 1/2 in from the black tank to the bottom of frame where the floor sits on. Can you show me how your center rail is tied in. Thanks.
It's all put back together so I can't see anything anymore. I can tell you it's welded in. You can kindof see the outline of it at 5.59 in this video: th-cam.com/video/npKJIDoS660/w-d-xo.html
If anyone else runs in to this you can always weld more cross members to your frame
Great video man! If u don't mind, what size wood u used? How much u spent total to replace the floor? I'm about to undertake a project like that w almost no floor replacing experience? Thanks!
Thank you, I used 3/4" plywood because that's what was originally there. I don't know the total. Probably 180 ish for the plywood and screws, a little more for the insulation, after that it depends on what finish materials you choose. It probably cost me 300-400 for floor materials
@@aDIYCarGuy Thanks for your response, I really appreciate it!
@@DGSantaFe for sure, and good luck with yours!
about to do the same thing i picked up a 29 foot fleetwood camper. Floors shot! Let the fun begin. Where is your other videos of showing finish?
That sucks! I've yet to do a video on the finish but it is finished...planning on doing a quick update video
Haha. Hey your suppose to say "you can do it"! Lol. I paid 300 for the camper so I cant lose. Worse case I make a really cool trailer out of it. But I do plan on fixing it!
@@FamilyChannelfun32 haha that's true, but I already know you can do it, goes without saying! $300 is a good deal, will be a winning result in one way or another!
Worst case...I strip it to the frame. And build. Small house on it. Tiny house
you should send a Christmas card to the original builder/company and thank them for the cheap work. Welcome to RVing!
Do you have any pictures of how you repaired the underbelly when you were done? I got ripped off with a 2006 Thor toy hauler and have to replace the back portion of the camper. I'm pretty sure some of my water problems are coming from a combo of either the back doors and or the damaged underbelly around the fuel fill area.
They make underbelly tape. I just removed the parts of the black underbelly I tore and just stapled up some hvac bubble insulation with 3m metal hvac tape around the edges. Doesn't have to be perfect, some campers don't even have underbelly material.
you make it look so easy !! I look at the work to do on mine and cry..... you have done a great job, how did you keep it dry whilst working?
It took me a month to do the floor, it was really difficult, on top of working in between the constant rain storms we had. The first thing I did was reseal the roof before replacing the floor. I would just have to put everything away if it started raining. The whole project spanned the whole summer...removing and installing the floor, laminate floor and trim, lifting walls, resealing the roof and a window, replacing an axle, and more. I did get to go camping with it a few weeks ago 🙌. Now I have it under a 10' x 30' tarp so nothing happens over winter.
yeh the rain is a problem, Im in UK and we had so much sun this year , I wish I had started months ago. Now it's intermittent days as usual so a rush to do anything . I got ripped off too. I only paid 600 for a caravan but to me that is a lot only to find the same, Im actually thinking to strip it all and make a shed out of it instead , you seem to have good experience with woodwork for sure, and a real strong purpose too
Yea it sucks to lose any amount to a scam, especially to something that was supposed to be a positive experience, so I'm sorry you got scammed too. In middle school we had to take wood shop, and in high school I took wood and metal shop. They made a bunch of industrialists out of us. I will still have to open up the front outer skin and let it dry and probably replace some wood in the wall...but that won't be until next spring. What happened to your caravan, did it leak through the roof or plumbing or something else?
I wasnt offered woodwork at school, we had needlework lol. Tell you what tho, would have loved it! Yeah it already had a leak and he'd patched it and said he had replaced the wood too on the front corner, so I think the rain just followed the section he had done and the paint is cracking on the roof too. To be honest it's a totall redo, I'm going to order a tarp so I can get started ! Being a woman I feel very intimidated by it but after many tears, I realised the worst I can do is not put it back together!
The school made us learn how to use a sewing machine too 😉. That's great that you're going to go for it. Take your time, do research, work safely and it should work out fine, and remember it doesn't have to be perfect, mine isn't!
Where is the over all end video of the camper? I want to see how it turned out!
That's still coming up at some point, stay tuned!
Where was all the water coming in?
Hey I was wondering what size plywood you used
3/4"
There's a lot of scammers out their.
Hello, was there a reason you did not use floor joist?
There are no wooden joists in this camper, just plywood on top of the metal trailer frame, the trailer frame acts like the joists, most campers are like this...wood joists add too much weight
That's what I'm saying, it seems he did a whole lot of work that was completely unnecessary. I give the guy credit, he worked his butt off and it's seems it's pretty solid, whoever he did it but dang, it made me want to pull my hair out with what all he had going on.
hi, how lift the cabinet for floor renewal?
First find and remove the screws that attach the cabinet to the floor, then maybe you can get the flooring out from under the cabinets. If you need to remove the cabinets, they are likely screwed in from behind the camper's outer skin
I'm a college student wanting to buy one and I don't wanna get ripped off. How didn't you notice all of this damage, should you have looked under the trailer first before buying?
The bottom of trailers are covered with a plastic membrane, with insulation above it, and the wood above that. So I can't cut someone's trailer open and look at the wood haha. If I pressed hard enough in enough spots, I would have been able to feel if the wood was soft or hard, I just felt one spot and was like "meh that's good"....I also should have felt the floor inside the front cabinets. That's where you're really going to feel if the floor is rotted or not, on the inside of the trailer.
What are front cabinets?
@@briizcustoms9543 the kitchen cabinets
tough guy...
Personally I would have put liquid nails on the seams at least on the parts you will be walking on help make it stronger
I hear ya but I want it to be easy and fast to take apart if I ever have to again.
@@aDIYCarGuy good point.
@@aDIYCarGuy
As a very experienced pro remodeler of homes and campers I definitely would have used adhesive of some sort. The floors are maybe less important (for adhesive) but the cabinet panels like the one he made removable are actually structural and should be glued in a camper.
Henry white elastomeric roof coating at Home Depot. Wash roof with TSP, rinse, dry, roll on two coats according to label directions. One problem solved. The other problem- windows:
Loctite PL Window Door & Siding Polyurethane Sealant. You can painter’s tape around the windows and caulk them with that; it will outlast you and me! Peel the tape just after smoothing the caulking and it cures in 2 or 3 days to the most durable seal you can diy. A nice caulking and tape job actually looks better than the factory did it. Window seals will leak in time and should be replaced but around the siding-to-frame is where I see most leaks happen
(Don’t use silicone caulk: it’s cheap, easy, and will not last. Plus it looks bad)
Put q layer of luan on top
How much to replace floor? Labour?
Really depends on how much material you need and the price of it at the time you buy it and where you are, you will have to measure it up and calculate it. It might have cost me $300 at the time but I don't remember. Several days of my own labor spread out through a few weeks working around weather and my other work.
wheres the next video of floor finish?
I think that's a good idea for my next video, it's long overdue
@@aDIYCarGuy waiting...lol .
@@FamilyChannelfun32 filming! haha
Heck yes. Give me a shout out on some tips brotha! I'll be copying you!!
Now I know how to make quick money doing shady floor work. 🤪
1. Buy a camper that ready to go to the trash.
2. Go to home depot
3. Go tod the bank and deposit money.
Easy as 1 2 3
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?? 8 soy boys didn't like your video so far?? You're too manly for them I guess. Keep up the great creativity.
Great work and perseverance. We bought an RV with water infiltration problems. Me and my boys started doing the repairs. You are a great source of inspiration, keep your great job!
Thank you and good luck with your RV! It will be worth it when it's done!