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Top job there David well done  .
Could you let me know if it's ok to place a link on my website to your webpage so your repair can inspire other caravaners .
I normally get up a pair of steps to wash my caravan roof and you do end up at quite a height, your accident has got me thinking i should take a bit more care when i get up there .
Get well soon  

atb

Wizard

Thanks David link is now on my site here http://www.1carpc.co.uk/wcdr/favorites.htm
Btw was up my steps today removing my caravan cover , i remembered your accident and went very carefully , i was thinking of maybe adding 2 pieces of box section aluminium to the bottom of the steps so to increase the foot print that the steps have , hopefully this would make the steps more secure on the ground .

atb

Wizard

Quote: Originally posted by davidmbell on 26/6/2012

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Been up to the caravan this evening on the way home from work, and (in my work suit) took up the caravan carpet, then shot several videos from the underside of the caravan with my iphone, while I walked about inside the van.

I'm alarmed at how much the floor flexes. (I'm 14 1/2 stone).

There's three videos - two without the corner steadies down, and one with. Watch carefully in the centre of the two 'beams' that seem to run back to front...

View in FULL screen mode

Video 1 slight angle (steadies not down)

Video 2 straight down van (steadies not down)

Video 3 straight down van (steadies down)

Talking of these two 'beams' I looked at about five other caravans of varying ages on our storage site and NONE had anything similar to this.. Inc another Crown van. Why does my caravan have two additional beams, running 3/4 of the length of the van, in parallel about a foot and half apart, and screwed into the caravan floor.....?

I am thinking the previous owner has had this done themselves in order to possibly fix previous existing delamination. (It only had ONE previous owner from new, and they had it 'maintained' by their nephew who was a BMW engineer...)

There's huge screws and washers in the floor of the van that line up with these beams. Surely this would just 'compress' whatever insulation was one there' and make the delamination even worse!!!!!!

Screws and washers running down length of inside of van:


The 'beam's running parallel front to back underneath:


So, thoughts... do I unscrew these beams, let them drop and see how the floor is?

Its clearly pretty shot, but will the delamincation repair fix this? Should it bow that much????

Help!

David

Post last edited on 26/06/2012 20:57:47

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Quote: Originally posted by romzi on 11/3/2013

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Hello,

I'm new on this forum.
Some time ago i realised i have delamination in my caravan (old Adria one)- tnx to this and some other web sites. Everything is quite straight-forward to me but I'm out of UK, from Slovenia. I'm trying some time now, but cannot get delamionation kit shipped to Slovenia. Can anyone help with order, or maybe point to some other products similar to Apollo epoxy mix? Maybe some kind of glue that is used for parquet?

Btw: sorry for rusty english

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Found it!

It is Icema R 145/12.