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Hi

Depends on how much you are paying for it. if a few hundred pounds you would get at least this year out it, to see how you like caravaning. If all goes well, you could sell it on, or if the van is as good as you say it is and that this is the only thing wrong, you could fix it if you are handy. A profesional repair will cost loads.

Did you check all the walls in the shower area, best to use a moisture meter with pin sharp points and push it hard into the wall board.

The seal around the top of the shower tray may be leaking, or there might be a hairline crack in the tray.

When i bought my first van I looked at loads and travelled hundreds of mile to like at what people said were good clean dry vans. There idea of a good dry clean van wasnt the same as mine.

If you are paying a fair wack, do as Jeff says, walk away.

Hi

If you are showing a 4" patch on the outside, you do have a good chance of revelling a much larger area of damp on the inside. The caravan floor is made up of 6mm plywood, 25mm (may be more) insulation board and then 6mm plywood. If just damp and not soft you may be able to take the tray out dill some holes in the top layer of ply and dry it all out. depending on how the floor is you might be able to glue and screw a section of thin ply over the floor before refitting the shower tray, to add strenght to the floor.

But please do a good check of the outside walls of the shower area especially at the bottom

As you are a joiner the same as myself I would say a floor repair is easy. Can you lift any of the floor coverings near the shower room to check the floor as it may have spread outside the shower area.

Given that you are paying a couple of grand I wouldnt jump in. Have you looked around at other caravans, to compare and see what else you could get for your money.

I would cut out a square section scrape away the insulation core, glue and screw a fillet the thickness of the core and insert leaving about 1" hanging out all round fix a section of ply on the underside, bond new insulation and fix a section of ply on the inside.

there are also a few other ways depending on how big a section you need to cut out, but the idea is same.

I agree with you, look at other vans because a couple of grand is too much to pay for a van of that age that you need to start repairing, because once you start you always find more, and it ends up worse than you first thought.

Good luck with your search, remember it is a buyer market the now.

Areas to check for damp

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Phil