Fixing 14 Foot Slide Out Floor and Installing New Flooring In $12,000 Auction RV. 

I bought, renovated, and sold 12 historic homes before I was 40 while I was a building contractor. I hit the wall. Now I'm 56 and don't even want to screw in a light bulb. I'm looking for an eager young man so I can give him all my tools and wish him luck. I used to love it. It was fun rebuilding things and made a pretty good living doing it. Now nothing is new. There is no challenge in it. Most men my age love going to "Lowe's"...I hate it! I can rebuild or fix damn near anything, I just don't want to anymore. On the bright side, the path that I have chosen has kept me very fit. I've been physically active every day for decades. I think it's great that you bought that trailer (warts and all), and are fixing it yourself. I would like to find a deal like that and do the same thing - Then throw all my tools in a ditch!!!! Have a nice evening, I enjoyed your video, thank you.

I helped a friend replace 3 slide out floors and one was a closet on top of the slide out. I had to dismantal the closet and then rebuilt it after the floor was done a real challenge but I learned alot. There pretty easy now

All projects are like that. It seems to be never-ending. Just be thankful you have the abilities, know how, and or ambition to do that. In the long run, we do it for our families and to save money. In the end, the satisfaction of your labors diminishes those doubts and questions

Big projects can drain you. The secret for me is not to think of it as one big project, rather many small separate ones. That way each step feels like an accomplishment and a job finished, rather than only a tiny step forward. I've got through some tough (self inflicted) assignments that way :)

Your good lady gets involved......that's awesome 👌

I have rebuilt 9 campers in the past 10 years me and my wife live full time in them

Renovating a 1993 lunar Jupiter myself, absolutely love making it my own, long way from finished but a bargain at £250, 5 birth, bunk bed, just love it !

Successful Completion keeps me going . 7/8 thru the project I get a dip in enthusiasm , then I remember the joy of completion of the last project , then I wake up and think Whats Next for today , my targets get smaller and smaller and smaller daily , its all I can think of , small targets . SUDDENLY ITS DONE ! ! I did it , myself , wow ! FEELS EUPHORIC , what a buzz , NEXT CHALLENGE BRING IT ON ....

It will be better than new when your Finnish and have a good holiday your pride will kick in seeing the family enjoying the fruits of your labour ! Good look 👍👏

I had a 2006 GTO. It had a ton wrong with it, but getting it sorted out and reliable was so satisfying. Amazing car. Nothing could touch it!

My project was a restoration on a 1977 Camaro. I am rejuvenated to get it finished now. Once you start getting it to the point where you start to see the progress, then the fire comes back to get it done.

Lol,I feel ya.. I bought a 20 year old house and remodeled the entire house by myself and when I started it I was like hell ya, but 1 year later I was like I’m so done with this.. But now I walk around my house like wow I did this.. Love it.. Keep up the good job..

Did our 99 horse trailer with living quarters. Took all fall. But it is really nice. After the main restoration, I keep doing a small one every year. Like new hardware, hinges and locks, new hydraulic tongue jack, new rims and tires.....

This video you made really helped me thanks

Very enjoyable to watch! I can only say that everything you did to this RV looks like an improvement. Something I thought of just now is this: Maybe, it would have been a good idea to put some type of soft felt strip on the underside of the plastic(?) bracing(?) strip between the edge of the slide-out floor and the inner floor. Just feel like you might want some kind of insurance against scratches if there happens to be any grit or sand grains on the lower floor while you operate the sliders.

I get what your talking about at the end of the video. I have a Subaru wrx 02 that I bought 7 years ago now abouts for 500$. I worked on it for 5 years to get it the way it is now, but them 5 years were hard very hard. I went through basically a divorce ( we were together for 9years and 2 kids) battled with jobs cause not many back then for someone with no education. But about 3years ago I got things back on track got my CDL and was able to keep the drive and dream alive. Got it finished about year and a half ago with 475whp and I have had people hand me a 20k check for the car... its been there in my kids life and my life throughout hard times it now is priceless I could never sell it. It is worth it for sure to push though them why did I even do this cause in the end you built it something special that will mean something to you and your kids for the rest of all your lives.

Excellent job

The level of ingenuity on display here is phenomenal, and that heat gun is straight up home improvement style lol! Definitely worth subscribing to

It is best to have a project......rather than sitting around doing something that makes your brain active.....Good thinking and planning makes the project successful and functional. We'll done..I have been following your project all the time....and you're great. What happen to the plane.?

These videos deserve more views! Seriously!

Pretty much all of my projects. Drives the husband crazy.

Tried to paint my house inside and out myself once. Got about half of it done and called in a professional to finish it. I would never try it again alone. You make all this stuff look easy though and you are easy to listen to. Thanks for all your content.

Yes, I remember 2016-2020 I used to bought older camper and some are floor water damage or soft spot and have to replace. First I was interest doing what I doing but few camper are done I gave up all the work I have done and no longer interest anymore.

I know this is an old video but if you ever do this again, tge slides are actually reall easy to remove. I am an RV tech and we pull these things out in a matter of minutes. Once they are completely out putting a floor in as about as simple as putting a board over a wood crate. Which is pretty much what you are doing. Depending on the type of slide drive system, its a really straight forward operation.

Hello from Moosomin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Thanks for sharing your great video’s please keep them coming

Can’t believe that the slide outs had compressed timber board as flooring! Definitely not structural as it will warp and bow over time. Marine ply would have been a better replacement but I’m sure that timer costs are wild. Here in Scotland price’s are crazy but due to the wetter climate here I always use marine ply for areas exposed to moisture. Great build, what a transformation 👍🏼

wish i had seen this before you started to give tips on wood an maybe other directions on build. good job love your work

Keep up the good work man. You're inspiring.

Great vids, well presented and edited. One comment on wood, chip board fails in even humid environments; never use it. Marine grade plywood is expensive for a reason, it lasts expscially if sealed. If you want to make something, anything that lasts, use chipboard for firewood.

Hello! We are big fans from Taranaki NewZealand!

I built an off-road Camper in 8 weeks during Covids height of panic. I built it literally from the ground up, trailer frame, axles, the whole 9 yards, then I built a steel 2"x1" skeleton frame for the box of the Camper, then shelled the entire skeleton with .060" aircraft aluminum. Added windows, wiring, insulated the entire thing with 2" styrofoam insulation including the ceiling, walls and floor. Added fan vents, then installed interior wallboard luan ply, then finished it off with fiberglass textured shower wall panel throughout. Added aluminum angle trim on every corner, built the bed features, cabinets installed water tanks, bathroom sink, shower and toilet, etc, etc....in 8 weeks. I was over it at week 7. But I took a few days off and finished by week 8. I also added a renogy solar system and the entire camper ran for days on a single charge, but would self charge each day.

That came out awesome

I want the Austin!

Never though to apply heat to bend round the lip on that flooring, what a good idea, looks stunning again, looking more like the $100,000 trailer

You have been doing an awesome job.

Proyects make me a live

I have a small Palomino 18 food camper with poput bunks, similar to a popup camper. I had to replace the entire floor in it because it was rotting away. I had to jack the body up of the chassis a few inches and slide new ply wood in . I reinforced the frame with more crossmembers, and spreaders to the outside edge, so the frame was actually supporting the walls. It was a major project, that took over a year, but I ended up with a camper built much better than it was from the factory. I used the same flooring in mine that you did

I took on the general contracting job of a fire restoration on my house 3 or so years ago. It's still not done, and we've been living in it for 2 years now. (Just a couple rooms of trim work and trim painting left, but still.) Enjoy your channel, and am really looking forward to the next twin prop video. 😉

It’s like a whole house of course it’s exhausting to repair it. I’m impressed how fast you finished with repairs.

With ADD everything, every single little project 🤣

hello IM a Rv tech / diesel mechanic and do these types of repairs on a regular basis. good job I love the plane videos as well keep up the good work!!!!!

Rebuilt the entire floors and beams the walls sit on in my 1,000 sqft home in about a month. It looked absolutely beautiful. The house was damaged by termites and white mold.

Bro that was absolutely awesome , great work God bless your New Years

16:30 - During covid, I was very bored and decided to renovate my garage apartment. I had a lot of fun, it went well. I repainted the entire place, fixed the floors, but by the time it got to be to take care of the bathroom I just.. was done. Absolutely done. Didn't care. Didn't even install the bathroom floor vinyl correctly and didn't bother to fix it. Anyway, I renovated the place and it looked great (except bathroom floor) and still didn't get my deposit back. Lol. Oh well. I knew what I was getting into. And yes I asked the landlord first before I did any renovation. Took it from a dull faded 80's brown to a new bright and modern look. Just don't mind the bathroom floor lol

Good job mate, that Floor is looks A1 👍

Awesome video Jason, thanks for the valuable information ...

Great Job keep it up!

My never ending project is an apartment building I reno'd. I was done with it 10 years ago. New porch starting this week.

Been working on my skoolie close to 2 years I am so ready to be done with it, been really thinking about selling it, that is how tired I am of working on it. My icon is my little bus.

Loving your work bro...

Lots of work for sure! Our shop erection project seemed to be never-ending once we got to the end with all the corner trim and final details. It became a bit of a daunting task, but had to get done!

I want the AUSTIN!

Just saying , think if would’ve been you I would’ve put treated plywood back ; with all the hard work your doing. Not criticizing you at all, you do awesome work

Built 2 appartements which are done, but at the same time, bought a 30 feet sailboat for 5k and working on it for 2 1/2 years...should be done this year. It wasn't finished and bought a cotage with a nice ocean view...but lots of work on it ant just got an 25 feet rv for free with also a lot of work to be done on it.......just don't know when I'm going to enjoy everything. Keep the good job with your chanel...I really enjoy every moment!

What project? I mean, other than kids... There's roofing, siding, building a smart clock (right down to etching circuits), rebuilding rotted window sashes, and endless list. But I think the most challenging, by far, has been cleaning out and reorganizing my garage, transforming it from a 2-car storage dump into a workshop. Still working that one.

I hope the wind was blowing away from the cars when you were doing a swirling paint job.

I completely gutted our master bathroom a few months ago. Floor, walls, plumbing, electrical, all of it yanked out. So far I've finished replacing the subfloor, framing in the medicine cabinet, the electrical, new exhaust fan, most of the plumbing, new insulation in some places, drywall hung and mudded, and durock installed for the shower. I have to build the shower curb, plumb in the drain, build the mud pan, install the Kerdi waterproofing, cut the holes for and install the toilet drain and supply, tile the shower, tile the floor, texture and then paint the walls and ceiling, install the vanity, figure out and install the shower glass, install the toilet and sink, and install the medicine cabinet. Oh, forgot about installing new trim around the baseboards, door, and window. At this point I'm over it, but there's so much more to do. All that, plus the owner of my company is retiring so I am taking over the business, AND my coworker has been out sick in the hospital with heart issues, almost died 2 weeks ago at work. I'm tired. Your videos and others like it really help to keep me sane. Thanks.

I feel ya brother. Stopped here to see how you did your floor. I have an 8 foot long dinette slider floor that is shot. Gonna do like you did without taking entire slide out. Saw AZ Expert do it as well. I like how you triangulated your outside “stilts”. Mine is a framed up floor with black stuff on the bottom, 1/4” luan, 1 1/2” wood frame, then a 5/8” ply on top. Also have a Schwintek slide mechanism to deal with. Nice job. Yeah not the project I was wanting to do, we are updating a 2015 Forest Salem Lite. It’s hot as Hades here in SC right now too but didn’t have any trips planned for the summer anyway.

As a project manager, I deal with this every project, especially if it's long term. The way I manage it is to have smaller goal posts. i.e. - fix the rotten floor, and then move to another mini-project on another item. Then when that's done, come back to this one. Yes, this does cause you to "extend" your timelines on complete proejcts, but it does keep energy levels up as you "task switch" from floor fixing to say engine start on the Austin or the 401. Once that engine is started, come back to the flooring on the RV, etc, etc.

Got into the same thing as you. floating floor in a trailer, the slide was tough, I also ended up gluing and screwing in some pieces. its just not as easy to do as it is in a house

I'm in the "I'm done" place right now. Bought a house that needed extensive work for my step daughter, with the intention that we'd do it together as a family. Jump forward 2 years, she is no longer speaking to us and I am the only person working to get this place ready for sale. So over it but need to get it gone.

painting the house and patching holes

great work !! it was entertaining !!

Great video..I have always thought about doing that. The cupboards colour is not my favourite neither. You mentioned losing interest in the project (I think that happens to the best of us) my method of combatting that struggle is not thinking about it-just keep moving forward (although hard …same as my business depends on what I’m doing…sometimes it’s repetitious so I just go through the motions till it’s done) I know I overthink and then it feels slow motion lol…so I definitely get what you are saying. But in the end it was all worth the struggle and everyone gets to enjoy your efforts. I say koodoos and great job man. (I think black steel and white cabinets look fantastic…hinges-handles and pulls plus floating shelves black…the rest white…it’s a bold look.

Great Job Dude!

Wow, you accomplished an incredible amount of work on your RV. I especially like your creative ways of dealing with the repairs like the bracing and heating the flooring so you could bend it into shape. Radom question, anybody ever tell you that you look like another RU-vidr, Ryan Huminston? Check out his channel, any episode that he has his head shaved! Slainte, DC

Great Video, I Can Relate to getting Burned out on a Project :) I have a 1973 Ford Ranchero, I Bought it in 73 used with 20,000 miles on it, its been in the family for 48 Years, the eng has over 400,000 miles on it, heads have never been off of it, I replaced the Timing chain every 100,000 miles, I rebuilt the trans at 115,000 miles the first time, So I am now doing a complete rebuild on the ranchero, I overhauled the eng, had it bored out .030 , new Stainless steel Valves and hardened valve seats, I have to Rebuild the trans again, Putting in a step 2 shift kit, and 355 posi diff. with a 2500 rpm stall speed torque converter, I am about half way done, but yes I am Getting Burned out :) I will also re do the front suspension too, new bushings and springs, and rod ends, I am A Retired Female Fleet Equipment mech with over 50 Years of Experience.

When you are a hustler you never stop,it’s in the blood.I rebuild failed restaurants and every time I start a new project I get to the point when I ask my self why am I doing this!? Put them to work then I completely forget , then start the new project again…

When my wife and I were a young married couple we had a little painting company, and we successfully bid on a job to refinish the wooden gym floor at our local school. It should’ve been a relatively simple job but whatever finish had been used over the decades was unbelievably hard. The project took us much longer than we anticipated and involved days and days crawling around on the floor with expensively rented heavy industrial sanders. After a while I could not have cared less about making money on the project, I just needed to get it done. That was a miserable couple of weeks!

First was rewiring my house to bring it up to code; the second was a full tear down (to the studs) and kitchen remodel.

Those leaks came from somewhere. Hope you took the time to fix the slide out roof

I have a similar project to do on our RV and you've just given me the inspiration to tackle it this spring. Like you, I'm a backyard mechanic/woodworker/Mr. Fixit and hate paying someone big bucks to do a job I can do without the labour costs (except for the aches and pains). Thanks for the ideas!

I stumbled onto your channel with the 401 videos. You're awesome man!

I did virtually the same repair in a slideout on our 5th wheel, replaced that fiber board with marine grade plywood ( waterproof ).

I enjoy your videos, you make great content. Did you check the walls on the slide out where the floor was moldy? Typically the moisture will get into the walls as well and create mold in there which is never good.

I hope you made sure there were no leaks in the roof before you started in the inside

I bought a house that had not been maintained. The more I investigated the damage the more I found until I wound up with a frame. After repairing all of the structural, rewiring, roof, etc. I began and had a good start of the interior cosmetics. I began to wonder if I had gone insane beginning a project like this knowing fully that I would be the one and only doing all of this work. Considering that it was on a 10 acre tract there were people continuously asking me if I would consider selling. On one occasion I said yes to a guy and he made an offer I could not believe or refuse. I accepted and now he is the proud owner. The regret I have is that I undertook this project without help and when I consider other projects now this bad memory floods back like a tsunami. It never helps to work on a project that you get sick of. If that happens step away for a while and regroup, things take on a different perspective in a few days.

Whatever the square box is I hope you are going to make it look better than it does.

oh man, that blow totch on the vinyl....so scary. I used a glue on PVC floor in my last camper build. I like it better than Vinyl. But, great video, and it looks great.

A 60 foot tree fell on my 14' slide which was out and knocked it to the ground, it has been a task but I almost have it completed.

16:00 min Goddamn, relatable!

Ah, projects. I'm a software developer and i love it but every now and then i come across some bugs(sometimes the entire code) in the code and it makes me question my conviction as a Computer Science graduate. But i still love it and wont have it any other way.

Where did u get 14ft board I need to do same

Slide out flooring looks great just curious how that transition piece with the vinyl is holding up I need to do the flooring on a slide also. Thanks.

I think I would have done a strip of faux vinyl brick in front that fireplace to look like a hearth

I bought an in-bed camper for my brother then his plans changed though he paid and I'll reimburse then once the camper is sold. Well there isn't a part of the camper I haven't touched, plumbing, electrical, structural, roof, and though it has been an a arduous task to address twenty years of deferred maintenance/neglect, I can in confidence save that the next owner will have a properly functioning camper than will give them well for twenty plus years with basic maintenance at a fraction of the cost of a newer unit.

I want the Austin

Every project i do takes 3x as long and i wonder why i'm seemingly wasting my time but after its all done I can tell myself it looks good and way better than watching tv... you tube is ok though..lol

Great video the only question that i have is did you make the floor or was it pre fabricated? I see that you wrapped it but dont know if you built it or not

i hope you investigate why the water damage occurred in the first place?

I would have to see the slide go in and out

Mine would be car audio build all runs of wires and dealing with running 2/0 grounds and power runs and lug crimping ugh lol

Awesome video! Ty for sharing. Did you have to order the piece of plywood from the factory special order?

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Very nice videos. We've been in our 2007 5th Wheel for about 4 years full-time, and I've wondered about doing the floors, and how the slide floors actually work. Our large slide is a bit different, in that when it fully extends, it actually drops down to make for a flush(ish) floor. One thing that concerns me about your process... Did you figure our where the leaks came from and address that. I've always heard, "Don't fix the floor until you've fixed the roof!"

Look back to the last moments of this video for the new plane series.

Wish you would of shown the floor build that was the most important part how did you do bevel or what degree was it

My x-wife gifted me a 1985 Toyota mini motor home. It had been sitting in a field for a couple years and turned out every piece of fiber from the bucket seats in the cab to the black water tank had rodent and mold and mildew damage. I’m the last three years I’ve been replacing every and I mean everything between the walls from the roof to the under floors to make it livable . Just started filing bankruptcy papers my credit cards are maxed out and have moved to Mexico to live affordably in a 19 foot motor home under a palapa in a lovely fishing village near San Carlos on the sea of Cortez. Would I do it again well let’s just say never take a “gift” from my x again unless it’s cash.

My project nightmare was a house that I bought knowing it needed a remodel and found extensive termite damage. The refurbishment required about a 1/3 of the structure to be rebuilt and I was able to get the house 2/3 rebuilt and remodeled but I never finished it. My marriage failed and I sold it to an investor to get out from under it. It was just too much for one guy with no help.

Hi nice job do you have to use 1 solid 14’ plywood And if so where did you get it