| Wet Floor [message #313914] |
Tue, 28 February 2017 20:38  |
Palmerdad
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Registered: August 2016
Location: Traverse City
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This week as I continue to remodel the interior of our '76 Eleganza I found that neither the seats nor seatbelts had nuts on the underside of the bolts to actually hold them into the floor. Now as I ripped up the suspiciously lain luan I found much moisture, mildew, and mold. Thankfully the floor still seems solid and it seems to be drying well. But the question of course is where the moisture could have come from.
A few more details. We bought it this last September and it was used and sat out during some good rains in Sept and October before being put away in a barn where it has been for the last 4 months. I never saw nor felt moisture on the top of the sheet vinyl floor that po put down, nor did I see moisture coming in from the ceiling.
So, where might it be coming from?
Overhead? When I removed the ceiling I found evidence of a leak above that area on the underside of the ceiling boards. But again I never saw any evidence of water coming from the ceiling this Fall and the moisture under the Luan seemed fresh. (I have since patched that area.)
Couldn't be from the water system as I have yet to put any water in it.
Is it possible for water to somehow get in from underneath? It is right by one of the wheel wells.
-James Palmer, Traverse City, MI
1976 Eleganza
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