broken interior wall

[campincrew]

Have anyof you ever had to replace an interior wall?  I have an '02 Coleman Mesa, and I inadvertently put a hole in the wall over the bench seat.  It seems that the wall is a luan or simple paneling.  Let me know what ideas you may have. :banghead:

[mike4947]

It's just paneling. The main problem is how much you need to remove and how it's attached.

Depending on the make/model/year and the moron that installed it. It can have between zero and 11 million fasteners holding it on and/or glued to whatever else makes up the wall. Which could be again anything from nothing to stryefoam to a few wood slats to the very rare actual plywood/chipboard core.
Depending on the hole size and location, we've added modifications in the location to cover up/use the space.
While not a wall, a friend's trailer has 4 roof vents. All to "repair" holes in the roof.

[debbiedee1957]

Depending on the size of the hole....you could place a sticker over it...maybe a decal from your favorite camp ground...a Coleman sticker...anything like that...NO one would ever know what was under it would they??

Keep it simple

Have anyof you ever had to replace an interior wall?  I have an '02 Coleman Mesa, and I inadvertently put a hole in the wall over the bench seat.  It seems that the wall is a luan or simple paneling.  Let me know what ideas you may have. :banghead:

[bearbait]

Depending on the make/model/year and the moron that installed it. It can have between zero and 11 million fasteners holding it on and/or glued to whatever else makes up the wall. Which could be again anything from nothing to stryefoam to a few wood slats to the very rare actual plywood/chipboard core.

LOL,  no truer statement could be made,  the only consistent thing about the way these things are put together is they are terminally incostitent.  When I took the interior wall off my trailer to add bracing for an exterior contertop extension,  I was kicking myself for actually paying money for this pop up. In some cases I think it would have been easier to just go buy a frame and build it all myself,  at least that way I would have better known how this thing was built.  In my case,  that panelling was glued in place to a couple of wooden pieces of 1 x1 running along the top and bottom of that wall.  All I did was ran a putty knife between the panel and those 1x1's and it came right off.  But their is absolutely no guarentee that that will be what you find behind that wall on your trailer......
 
Thanks Mike for the post,  that was the best explanation of how these trailers are built I have read in a long time.  The moron that was on the assembly line that day has more to do with it than anything else from my experiences.  Someday in a more relevant post I will have to share with the board about my waterpump electric supply line being double fuse blocked inside a raceway.  12 beers and a lot of swearing later,  I figured out what the moron that put my slideout in was thinking that day.

[debbiedee1957]

Guess a sticker isn't an option??   LOL

[campincrew]

It seems to me that it is nothing but paneling.  Easy enough to remove and replace.  I think I'll take the opportunity to throw some insulation in the wall as well.

[bearbait]

If it's an exterior wall that this piece of paneling is against,  you might want to consider adding bracing to the interior of the wall.  It's easy enough to do and if you want to add a shelf or extend the exsisting shelf for cooking outside,  the bracing will already be there for that application.  If it's on the road side,  then I guess it wouldn't make much difference,  but I'm not sure which side of the trailer your dinette is on.  It's just a suggestion to save yourself some work later if need be.

[Old Goat]

It seems to me that it is nothing but paneling.  Easy enough to remove and replace.  I think I'll take the opportunity to throw some insulation in the wall as well.

The paneling in your popup is 1/8"plywood.  I replaced a panel in my Niagara last winter with 1/8" door skin, which is the  paneling that door makers use for facing on interior wood doors. It comes in 36 1/2" X 81" sheets and I found it at Home Depot. It is usually faced with luan mahogany which will take a matching stain quite well.......