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Hi Tony Welcome to UKCS , can you post on here or email me a few pictures of the wood under the skirting rail .

atb

Wizard

yes did mine on my avondale.i removed the door and dicovered that timber you are on about was rotten. i removed the awning skirt rail.under this through the aly skin were some 75mm screws i removed these. then from under the van i carefully chiselled off the timber that didnt fall off.the new piece of timber had a run of sikaflex applied to the top and both sides to seal. and this held it in place until i re screwed the timber.fairly quick and easy job.

atb.neil

Similar on our Eccles Whirlwind 1995. On the left hand side the (thin!!) ally fairing forward of the wheel tapers to the front, and there is a tapered piece of wood beneath it which at the front is a bit weak. When I recently took the front and rear fairings and the wheel arch and skirt rail off to reseal it all, I noticed that the area of flooring where the tapered wood piece attaches is a bit soft but not rotten. Also this is only over the outer inch or so along a length of about six inches. Future plans are in mind to graft in a repair.

Pete

Hi Tony , looking at the pictures i have a feeling that the floor maybe fixed to the wood in your pictures , with the fixings under the alloy skin , so it maybe a challange to replace completely .

I'm wondering , could you maybe cut along the length of the timber that you can see ( nice straight cut needed ) ( so you cut out most of the rot ) and then fix a new piece of timber in place , glue it and screw it into the old timber above ( treat it with wood preserver before fitting ).

atb

Wizard