What's Inside a Winnebago Wall?? RV Sidewall Water Damage part 2 

And yet again a good example of why i think slide outs are a horrible idea. I've got got a 20' camp trailer that I've got to skin and rebuild and you've got the best educational vids yet!

James I love your videos. You seem like an honest guy. I would have you work on any machine of mine. Keep up the good work.

That was a very classy comment about critiquing others' work. I'm thankful there are good people out there doing this work. Lets those of us who are interested in RVs know how the job should be done right and gives an appreciation on the amount of work involved. Thank you for sharing your day.

Watching you and Chad fix what seems impossible to most is really an educational experience. Thanks for sharing with us!

Yo AZ E! Amigo you have a lot of patience to do a job like that. More importantly your doing it right. Keep up the strong work.

Music was perfect, plz add more!

You fellas do excellent work. If I was you, I would have been asking myself, "Is the entire RV water damaged?" The answer is most likely yes.

James, you are a true craftsman.

I need a nap just watching the work put into this rebuild! You guys are true craftsmen!!

The value of a true trades person is their ability to make something damaged and make it work and look good.

WOW.... James, that's what I call GRACE, not throwing the "others" under the bus!!! We all have had jobs that we wish we had a better end results.

I had a Winnebago Vectra. It had delamination and a roof which popped off in the wind. I now have a Newmar and am so much happier with their conventional wall construction.

Enjoyed the music, it was a great addition. Cheers

Very informative Sir, ..thanks

😮wow. Thankfully they found you guys.

You mean Winnebago doesn't have two day shipping on an entirely new sidewall painted to match? Well dang. Great work and ingenuity!

The quality of your craftsmanship makes it seem as if you personally own this coach 👍

That’s a huge job. You have a lot more patience than I do. Cheers

She must really like her motor home to spend that amount of money on it. I would have lived with it or just traded. But to each his own. James I appreciate the time you take in showing these repairs. I do work on my RV, just minor stuff. I'm too embarrassed to show my so called expertise. Thankfully this type of delam is not as common on a Wanderlodge. Still have to maintain the roof and window seals. The Wanderlodge makes up for it in other repairs that require help from online support that have the same issues. Thanks again for your videos. I appreciate them.

When you first see it you think there is no way that can be saved. Pretty impressive work!

Beautiful work man it's a pass form me good job guys I am 60 years old I wish I would have known about this type of work back in my day I probably would have been right behind you doing it it looks like a smart way of doing things and getting things done in a proper great way it takes a lot of brains to figure things out like that you the man bro good job locating the leaks 🇺🇸🇵🇷👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🖖🏽😊 P.s when I get ready to retire in a few years I'm going to get a motorhome I'm already thinking about the beaver I seen a few of them online they're beautiful motorhomes but with me I'm looking more for 2005 and up I'm glad you were able to find your dream Beaver motorhome you real lucky to find that diamond in a rough

Your work arounds are very ingenious. As always impeccable work and Thank you for educating the masses.👍

Academy award stuff James.

we all have done things we not proud of - we do the best we can with what we have

Watching you work on these RV's is so inspirational. You do some really great work, you and Chad should be commended. If I am able to buy an RV I would drive to AZ just so that you could work on mine.

Excellent work ethic as always James and Chad! I am always blown away by the dedication you both see these difficult projects through. 👏👏🙌🙌

What doesn't seem interesting to you because it's your job and you've been doing it for years. Is very interesting to us that like to have an understanding and working knowledge of RVs. Thank you very much. We also can't get enough of roof videos. This is coming from an aircraft mechanic

Another great job james and Chad’s a great straight man !

Drywall patch tape was a great idea....thanks for the share...

Very nice video again. I am glad you show as much as you do, the owner probably will also, help them understand the amount of work required to do it. Not only do I enjoy your explanation, and hard work but you scored big with Chad, do not let it go to his head but he seems like a great tech also. So hard to find good help, and great techs. Thanks again for the video and all your time editing it for our entertainment and learning. Stay safe and healthy.

Another excellent job... I see so many of these with delamination every time I pull into an RV park. I am glad all I have to worry about is rust... mine is all steel.. but of course it still has some leaks.. just cannot seem to escape them..

Dude you're awesome I pray this young man continues on with you learning and carrying on good work.

Nice work 👍

What an AWESOME video!!!! Thanks for sharing!!! Of all the videos I have ever watched on this subject, yours is by-far the BEST one.

You da man James! Keep up the great work 👍

Awesome way of flushing up the low spots with the fiberglass tape . I’m rebuilding the rear wall in my camper and have the same situation. Now I know what to do . It’s NOT easy at all but you and Chad have helped me so much with my camper rebuild . Great work and always love watching.

I love your videos showing how you do things the best way you can without high-tech tools 🔧

I could feel the pain just watching this!

I wish I could take six months off and come work for this guy for free. So much knowledge 😖😖😖👍

Yikes. Sure glad you know what you are doing. Good job. Happy trails!

This is very interesting

I'd like to think, that if I were doing this job, based on my total lack of knowledge, I would probably have used marine glue. I don't know about RVs, but airplane owners use that on their planes to make those sorts of repair. Or at least they did. I'm glad you did this job.

I've done major water damage repair on RV's, it's a royal pita, but the couple I did turned out well......

Thank you for sharing James... lots of hard work again..👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Man, this is the job i did over the summer (where I routered my thumb). built a 8x8 table in the backyard to do the work on. I worked for a week scraping and sanding the luaun off the filon. i wish i'd seen this and/or thought to use the drywall tape as a spacer. i have some in the garage! another great vid, James and Chad.

Will never buy a winnebago thank you for your videos I was contemplating one.

Great video James. But if I ever have one of those I’ll find the leaks and leave it. Man what a job

I have never been more afraid than I am right now... we have an '07 Tour built on an '06 chassis. Yikes!!!! Thanks James!

James it got to be a dirty job but I believe you guy’s will do a good job fixing it up i would hate to be doing it good video keep up the good work guy’s

you skills are amazing good work wow lot of work

Outstanding work.

Great video, you guys do a awesome job.

Love the out takes

Good thing its not snowing

It really is criminal how cheaply these things are built all manufacturers! You would think the one area that they could spend some significant money and time in his waterproofing the exterior.. really a shame how they are built to fail. Even more of a shame how the consumers put up with it. Ps it looks like you do very high quality great work keep up the good work!

Can you say, "Opening up a CAN 'O WORMS!" 🤣

You do great work 👍

That fidlin seems to significantly increase your speed and productivity. I recommend playing that the whole time if you ever work on my coach. 👍

Should the foam thermal break be on the outside or inside of the RV? DRV, Jayco (modern Designer FW) and FR (Riverstone) have placed the thermal break to the inside. I know this is an old video, but thanks for showing what is involved in a repair like this.

That is a huge amount of work and you guys are doing it right. I'm just shocked at the shoddy construction, it's not like no one knows how to build watertight walls e.g. boat builders do it all the time...... Esp. given the cost of these things, the profit margins must be massive - that said, it sounds like they are using 1970s construction techniques - boat builders moved to vacuum bagging decades ago as it is way more efficient.

Another Moldybago is saved by Dr. James.

Great video thank you.

James perfectly demonstrating how to eat an elephant. One bite at a time

Good to see a fellow Samsung Note 9 user! I was nearly ready to put my 2005 Winnebago up for sale after watching your roof and j-channel videos. This may clinch it! I'd like to know if that coach lived in a super wet climate. Seems like quite a bit of rust on what little I could see of the chassis. I don't have any of that, so maybe this has been exposed to a lot of rain. Thank you so much for documenting this, it really does show that owners need to keep up on maintenance, especially the areas way above eye level.

Just amazing!

great job

lol you bought a new shovel for this - sure hope you made good money on this project

I hope you make good money, it is very obvious you do the best you can on really messy rework/repair jobs. I'd look at something like that and run in the opposite direction! I do really like adhesives , under proper conditions, used correctly they are crazy strong. Some car companies glue their car body panels on, wild! ....

Awesome work as always! Seems like you always get handed a crap sandwich. I know where I’m taking mine if I need this kind of repair done even though it would take a couple days to get to you. As always very interesting video!

Digging the music. Also going to request a sound clip of the exhaust when that one is running as I see shiny mufflers underneath there. Assuming a CAT C7 in it?

Have you made a video on which manufacturer has the best overall build quality?

The corner reminds me of chimney flashing corners where an overlap (uphill side) is needed and therefore double flashed. I think haste at the factory causes a lot of this.

James, I'm fixing a bay door on our 2003 Newmar and it going to involve glueing filon to styrofoam (white), (I think the outside painted surface is filon, Newmar said it might be plastic,?? Since that Sta bond glue is basically unavailable to the general public what glue would recommend. Water based contact adhesive? Spray foam? PL 300 foamboard adhesive. A new 46" bay door is almost $ 800.00 plus I'll have to paint it or have it painted. The paint on ours is nearly perfect so I'm going to attempt to fix it.(delamination between the filon and styrofoam. Thanks

Thanks for the video finally leaned the one thing in life I care not to do lol . Guess the best way not to see it come back in after repairing is do not cut any corner hu ?

This video series, Part 1 and 2...(3?) has been so helpful. My CC has this exact issue but I believe the water damage came from around the windows. Both damaged areas have a window that the wood framing around the window is rotted. Plus CC does not cover the entire outside layer with foam so the framing is exposed unlike W. The CC exposed steel framing is now rusted due to the moisture and would have to be cleaned and treated before repairing. Is there a product that can be used in lieu of Lauan that would act as the barrier between fiberglass and foam? That way the week point (Lauan) if it got wet it wouldn't separate and cause de-lamination? On my coach and this one and all others that had the de-lamination issues visible from the outside the only issue is that the three layers of wood sheets that Lauan is made, separates from and then there is no structure bonding the wall. Love your channel and work ethic, expect an email shortly:)

James, enjoy your videos. If I didn't live 2,000 miles away I would have you fix my Class C bunk area. Guess I will have to wait for warmer weather and try to do it myself. Thanks for all the helpful videos. I do have one question. Why don't you and Chad have a long handle floor and ice scrapper to slide under the fiberglass to break it away from the luan?

Great video i would have continued on with the rear and find the leak, isnt there a thermal imaging camera you can use to scan these roofs and walls to determine how much rot there is behind? You can rent them... Keep the rig cool in side if hot outside or hot inside if cool outside, rotten wood doesnt conduct heat and with a thermal imaging camera easy to see leaks damage without tearing apart, they use this on houses and i think it might work with you guys, anyway great work!!

In aviatio, industry there are elastomeric fillers and those would have worked to relevel the sidewall and the RV wall itself.

Seems you are no stranger the ways of fixing the irregularities. As you mentioned labor job. But seems most that you post are , except the roof inspections. Those go quick. You care about the work you do and it shows

As a future RV owner I am now terrified of not finding a leak until its very expensive. Can you share on future videos, the labor time required to do repairs, so we have some idea as to cost.

Great video... you are easy to listen to. *Shouldn't you have a mask while you are sanding and atomizing styorfoam and black mold?*

Is it necessary to remove all wood glued to the foam...even if its is a very thin layer? Your videos are amazing by the way...If I were close to AZ...I'd just take it to you guys

my wife and I just did this and the driver side of are 96 Monaco Windsor 34 foot no slides replaced all the wood and all the wood on the roof and put a new tpo roof on it never again!

Have you ever replaced an interior wall panel? I would love to see the video.

Got another question. Why wouldn't you just take the foam down off of the camper and replace it with some fresh foam board? Is there stuff attached to it on the other side?

I am amazed that there is not a material better than luan plywood for this application....... maybe a rubber mat?

SUPER EASY DE-LAM FIX TRICK FOR THIS WINNEBAGEL. 1) PAY INSURANCE PREMIUM. 2) TORCH COACH. 3) COLLECT SETTLEMENT CHECK. 4) AVOID TEMPTATION TO PURCHASE ANY RV.

A drop cloth taped down can help make clean up much easier. Oh please wear a particle mask when rotary sanding!

Humor is always good

Wow that's a pretty big repair specially having to do it a 2nd time now. I feel bad for how much money this owner has had to spend so far on this wall.

Wow!

Thanks for sharing. Like 235

Suggest either HEPA mask or at the minimum 3M N95 Plus mask so not to breath mold spores.

How many vapor impermeable layers are needed in a wall containing wood?

Can you tell me where you are located ? I have some water damage to my used , recently purchased RV . I’d like to speak with you about it , or ask if you could give me an idea where I could have it reported properly . It’s tough to find somebody that works on these in my area z

I have a real similar issue with my 05 journey 36g in the exact same spot. Would you be willing to do job this again?

Where do you buy your panels from?Because I went in to Lowe's and home depo the panels they have looked same but it's not the same.

I wonder if you could use a power planer set at a 1/16th depth and (carefully) shave off the luan?

OK, you have my attention. So should I get rid of my winnebago? How can I prevent this?

Well if the factory didn’t engineer water leaks 🤦🏼 I think the only option is a garage when not in use. 😂 honestly I never knew that could be fixed. I guess if you throw enough money at something anything can be fixed. Nice job 👍🏼