What are the floors made of and how thick are they?

[DMS1]

I bought a 2013 Rockwood Mini Lite 2502S and was wondering what the floor was made of and how thick is it? I want to screw 4 tie down points to secure my generator behind the axle to help with weight distribution. Does the floor have any plywood under the linoleum?

Thanks

[cardwellmarty]

If you have floor furnace vents you can remove them and probably see.

[Malojeer]

Floors are a sandwich of styrofoam in between louan on top and louan on the bottom

[DMS1]

Originally Posted by cardwellmarty

If you have floor furnace vents you can remove them and probably see.

No floor vent. I might just drill a hole in the back of a storage compartment to take a look.

[onetonford]

you can also check where a pipe goes thru floor. I know what mine is but not the rockwood mini lite.

[Leslie-and-Ann]

Originally Posted by DMS1

I bought a 2013 Rockwood Mini Lite 2502S and was wondering what the floor was made of and how thick is it? I want to screw 4 tie down points to secure my generator behind the axle to help with weight distribution. Does the floor have any plywood under the linoleum?

Thanks

Unless it is a 5er it is a foam sandwich, a 1/8 plywood on both sides foam in the middle. My 5er is 5/8 tongue in groove plywood.

[stephndudb]

Originally Posted by Leslie-and-Ann

Unless it is a 5er it is a foam sandwich, a 1/8 plywood on both sides foam in the middle. My 5er is 5/8 tongue in groove plywood.

Some 5ers have the sandwich floor. I think they switched the Rockwoods to plywood in late 2016.

[rockfordroo]

Mini Lite floors are luan and foam sandwich until around mid-2017. So I wouldn't be attaching any tie-downs in yours.

[cardwellmarty]

Originally Posted by onetonford

you can also check where a pipe goes thru floor. I know what mine is but not the rockwood mini lite.

I agree, l can check mine under the tub access hole. My trailer has sandwich flooring and has a thicker osb on top of the sandwich flooring, it is 5/32. My opinion it is not thick enough to mount to, unless you drilled all the way through the sandwich flooring and used maybe a 1x6 and drilled through it using long bolts and flat washers. The biggest set back is you would have to remove belly covering to see and complete the task.

[cardwellmarty]

Originally Posted by cardwellmarty

I agree, l can check mine under the tub access hole. My trailer has sandwich flooring and has a thicker osb on top of the sandwich flooring, it is 5/32. My opinion it is not thick enough to mount to, unless you drilled all the way through the sandwich flooring and used maybe a 1x6 and drilled through it using long bolts and flat washers. The biggest set back is you would have to remove belly covering to see and complete the task.

Correction on floor thickness 5/16, sorry l pulled a floor vent and double checked. My trailer is a 2007 Forest River Flagstaff

[pdgates]

Interesting discussion on sub floors. I have a 2013 Columbus 320RS and on my trip from Nashville to OKC one of the tie down screws pulled loose on the rough roads and the wheel on the movable island literally broke through the floor and made a hole that I now have to figure out how to get repaired. Point of this. If the floor is laid then it is inferior and possibly the cause of soft floors.

[gastan]

According to the 2013 Rockwood brochure, the floors are what everyone is saying - vacuum bonded sandwich construction with very thin luan plywood top and bottom.

I am in the process of replacing the floor in my 2012 Mini Lite 2104 because of this crappy construction. Soft spots in 3-4-5 places. One of them so soft I am afraid to walk on it.

FR still uses this construction method in their smallest TT's even though they have moved to 5/8" T&G plywood in other models. (According to the brochure currenty on their website)

I like my trailer and have had very few problems but if I ever upgrade, the floor construction will be very important to me and one of the first things I check.

[itat]

Here is a link to the brochure. It agrees with all other posters - sandwiched styrofoam between thin luan sheets. See page 11.

https://library.rvusa.com/brochure/13_RockwoodRoo.pdf

[cardwellmarty]

Originally Posted by pdgates

Interesting discussion on sub floors. I have a 2013 Columbus 320RS and on my trip from Nashville to OKC one of the tie down screws pulled loose on the rough roads and the wheel on the movable island literally broke through the floor and made a hole that I now have to figure out how to get repaired. Point of this. If the floor is laid then it is inferior and possibly the cause of soft floors.

I am planning on putting a floating floor in ours in the spring, it is not damaged by water but it just soft due to walking on it, l don't know if it will complete eliminate the soft spots but it will help. There is thin aluminium tubing in the middle of the sandwich that does and will help in reinforcing the floating floor.

[billnelson]

Originally Posted by stephndudb

Some 5ers have the sandwich floor. I think they switched the Rockwoods to plywood in late 2016.

My 2016 8299BS 5er has plywood floor.

[stephndudb]

Originally Posted by billnelson

My 2016 8299BS 5er has plywood floor.

Our 2017 8289WS has the sandwich main floor. The upstairs is plywood.

[rockfordroo]

Clearly people are not reading the OPS initial post. He's asking specifically about floors on a Mini Lite. Responses on other TT's, while possibly interesting, are not answering the question the OP posed.

[fella10]

Originally Posted by DMS1

I bought a 2013 Rockwood Mini Lite 2502S and was wondering what the floor was made of and how thick is it? I want to screw 4 tie down points to secure my generator behind the axle to help with weight distribution. Does the floor have any plywood under the linoleum?

Thanks

we have a 2015 Micro Lite 25KS which is a twin of the Mini Lite 2503S, your floor should be the same as what we have, ... the link below has a couple of pics that might help a little, at that link you can click on them and then enlarge them one click, ... hope this helps

http://www.forestriverforums.com/for...rs-166584.html

[cardwellmarty]

Originally Posted by rockfordroo

Clearly people are not reading the OPS initial post. He's asking specifically about floors on a Mini Lite. Responses on other TT's, while possibly interesting, are not answering the question the OP posed.

You are right Roo, Sorry.

[DMS1]

After reading everyone's posts I am going to plan be and am not going to put tie down anchors in the floor.

Thanks