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Subject Topic: Delamination of a touring caravan floor Post Reply Post New Topic
21/4/2013 at 8:47am
 Location: Stourbridge
 Outfit: Swift
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We are new to caravaning and have bought and old caravan to start with which we love, however the floor by the kitchen is delaminating we would be grateful if anyone could tell us if it is easy to do ourselves as we don't want to be paying out hundreds on an old van also which would be the best kit to buy to do it my husband has looked on amazon and there are so many it is confusing. Any advice will be much appreciated. Thank you

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21/4/2013 at 9:20am
 Location: south yorkshire
 Outfit: 1992 Elldis Whisp Conway Countryman.
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HI Jenney james. Its not a difficult job to do,you will find plenty of information on the fix it pages of this site. I did some on our caravan and bought all I needed from GE Caravan Services they have a shop on ebay. They supply a kit for about £25 with everything you need included and good instructions just make sure you put plastic sheeting down before you start injecting the glue its much simpler then to get the excess off the floor.
Just follow the instructions and you will have a solid floor again

Just looked on Ebay the item no. Is 360591797445
All the best
Kev

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21/4/2013 at 12:01pm
 Location: between here & there
 Outfit: 2 berth corniche 15 2 x-type jag
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hi Jenny James,  delamination , as zac45, says isn't that hard a job to fix, it can't be ,i've recently done the job on our tin tent and i'm no diy'er, got my kit from caravan solutions via ebay (£22.99 inc p&p).

 there are other ,more expensive  kits available,  i opted for this one as it was a single,pre- mixed, ready to use  kit also i've bought other bits n bobs from caravan solutions before and always found them to be good quality, no fuss options

 i just followed the instructions to the letter, now our floor is solid again 17

apparantly caravan floors are made up of 2 plywood sheets with polystyrene sandwiched between. over time in high traffic areas like doorways, kitchen / bathroom areas ,the polystyrene gets crushed

my understanding is ( and i could be wrong ) the gunk in the delamination kit ( once injected) expands and fills any voids between the ' styrene and top plywood sheet, thus solidifying the floor again.



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no tin tent outings booked as yet ,just another cruise in Sept' booked so far


21/4/2013 at 7:34pm
 Location: Lancashire
 Outfit: Caravan now Sold
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I'm michael,type delamination in search on caravan repairs section and you will find my version of floor repair.

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21/4/2013 at 7:34pm
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I'm michael,type delamination in search on caravan repairs section and you will find my version and others of floor repair.

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21/4/2013 at 9:30pm
 Location: barnsley south yorks
 Outfit: 2012 coachman amara 550 5 ford kuga
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my son in law did our old van and it cost about 85 pound for 3 tubs of glue

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22/4/2013 at 8:01am
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A tin of two part resin is about £40 from a dealer. I did ours just before Christmas took me a couple of evenings.

I read mixed reviews on the single chemical resin so went for the two part one.

The instructions say to plug the holes with dowels after injecting the resin but I opted to knock the dowel right down to the bottom layer to take some of the load off the polystyrene. You want the dowels to be tight in the holes too. I drilled 8mm holes to knock 9mm dowels into.

The biggest part is replacing the carpet afterwards. I only removed the carpet between the door and the kitchen, leaving it in place around the seats and bed then replaced the section with cheap laminate flooring.



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