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Subject Topic: De Laminated Caravan Floor Repair Post Reply Post New Topic
Persontazhearts
26/7/2017 at 3:22pm
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About to carry out a repair of my Lunar Quasar floor using the One Shot kits sold on eBay.

The kitchen section (middle of the van) are spongy but both ends are fine.

After lifting the carpet I plan to replace it with wood effect click viynl fooring.

My dilema is how much of the floor to drill and fill with the one shot and dowels. I am tempted to do the whole van rather than just the spongy bits. My theory being it will prevent my having to lift the floor covering in future and fix new spongy bits. Any advice re this? Will doing a preemptive repair on non spongy bits work and prevent them becoming spongy?


PersonBattie
26/7/2017 at 7:40pm
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Dont use dowels with one shot.

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Persontazhearts
26/7/2017 at 7:42pm
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Why not? ?All the reviews I have read about one shot and dowels sound good?


PersonGrampian91
26/7/2017 at 10:11pm
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I think they meant dont put the dowels in until its totally set?

It expands and if it cannot escape it will force the panels further apart.

The sections that are not spongy wont have anywhere for the glue to expand into. So your just wasting glue and wasting time etc.

You will drill a hole in the non spongy area and pour the glue in and it cant go anywhere but expand back out the hole you just drilled.


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i did a write up on how to do one shot a while back.. ignore whats being said in this thread and do a search for it..

trog

ps.. google produced it.. here you go..

http://www.ukcampsite.co.uk/chatter/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=31&TopicID=315508


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I used one shot on my van - follow the instructions and it works fine. I used drill bits with a stopper to ensure correct drilling depth. If you are doing this on your drive I would suggest covering with a cheap plastic dust sheet to catch any spillage. The other thing I had a problem with was drilling through under floor water pipes. My sink pipes came across the van from the inlet to kitchen sink in a diagonal line - I had incorrectly assumed that the pipes would have been installed straight across (like domestic electric cable). There's no point in doing areas that don't need it. The most time consuming part was removing the factory installed carpet it took some time to remove all the staples. I used vinyl after with a couple of mats - much easier to keep clean.


PersonPickled Onion
28/7/2017 at 2:42pm
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I've got to do a second section now between fixed bed and toilet, first one was front door and sink/kitchen area which received most traffic. Did same one shot and dowels method as trog and it was a complete success. Luckily no hidden pipes or wires to cause problems.

Like already said you can't quite pre-empt the future job because you need the internal space for the expanding foam to create the structure and strength surrounding the dowels, they give so much strength to the job.

Dave.

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