anglia4 Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 The whole right hand corner is completely rotten, both lower corners have detached, and the front panel has detached. Genuinely, the bed frames were the ONLY thing holding the entire front of the caravan together. Once I lifted the beds out, I noticed that when I was walking around, the entire front wall of the caravan was moving side to side relative to the floor. So I'm in for a major here... eek. Plan at this stage is: Replace the front ~300mm or so of floor to get a good solid base. Rebuild the rotten front corners and framing Reinstall the window with toughened glass Continue through the rest of the caravan doing the same trip and repair. I'm expecting some more major drama around the doorway. Completely re-fit the interior with a layout that better suits our family So now George looks like all the caravan projects that I wasn't allowed to buy... This is something we had always wanted to do in the future, but with the Galaxie arriving any day now, the timing to dive into this project couldn't be any worse. Just gonna have to get stuck in and git-er-dun. 4 1 5 Quote
anglia4 Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 Any clever ideas for framing timber? It needs to be un-treated to avoid reacting with the aluminium. Its 30mm thick. I'm tossing up laminating some dressed pine to get to 30mm or cutting what I need out of 30mm UT ply. Thoughts? Quote
nzstato Posted January 6 Posted January 6 5 minutes ago, anglia4 said: Any clever ideas for framing timber? It needs to be un-treated to avoid reacting with the aluminium. Its 30mm thick. I'm tossing up laminating some dressed pine to get to 30mm or cutting what I need out of 30mm UT ply. Thoughts? Either ply, or shop around for some dressed macro? 2 Quote
440bbm Posted January 6 Posted January 6 what about that structural ply stuff, J ply. its stong asf and lighter than anything else you'll get which is handy. not sure if its available untreated.. or is this the stuff you are thinking of anyway Quote
anglia4 Posted January 6 Author Posted January 6 The Ply Guy locally has 30mm sheets of untreated industrial ply that I think will be the way to go. https://www.plyguy.co.nz/taranaki/shop/timber/jumboply-3020x1220x30mm-ut-industrial-grade/ Quote
anglia4 Posted January 7 Author Posted January 7 Just went to buy that sheet and he had boards of it 110x30x2.7m for $4 each. So I got 6 of those instead of spending a fortune on a sheet I can’t lift. Winning. 8 Quote
anglia4 Posted January 8 Author Posted January 8 Today I managed to get the new corner post templated, laminated and cut out. Also managed to get the rotten old piece out. Im glad it was so rotten, it would have been a real ball ache if half it was decent timber on account of all the little tack nails holding the aluminium in the corner. Just need to massage the shape slightly to get the fit right and then glue/screw it in. 7 Quote
lowlancer Posted January 8 Posted January 8 Could you not have used a treated timber and just used a non-permeable barrier around it? Even LOSP/H3.1 treated and paint it before installing. I would definitely consider sealing that ply up with something. Rad caravan, so keen on one. Beauty mint green one up here for sale. 1 Quote
anglia4 Posted January 8 Author Posted January 8 Untreated timber seems to be the done thing. This piece of ply definitely won’t be the weak link in the framing. I’ll definitely be putting some effort into making sure the cladding is well sealed though! 5 Quote
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