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Cabinets and Structural Integrity
A question for you engineering types:

My understanding from reading various threads on LDO is that the installed cabinets in a Lazy Daze are an important part of the structural integrity of the unit. Would it be fair to say that this in the case in most RV's?
Greg & Victoria
2017 Mid-Bath  “Nocona” towing a manual 2015 Forester
Previously a 1985 TK
SKP #61264
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
Reply #1 –
Do an image search on Google for RV rollover crash and see what you think.
fu
2015TK
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
Reply #2 –
Quote from: HiLola  - 
A question for you engineering types:

My understanding from reading various threads on LDO is that the installed cabinets in a Lazy Daze are an important part of the structural integrity of the unit. Would it be fair to say that this in the case in most RV's?

LD screws and glues every cabinet, bench seat or couch frames together. They do the same to the walls and anything other structural item installed. Yes, the whole rig is a built to be a mono structure.

For example, after the interior walls have been built, the interior pieces (cabinets, wall and  furniture) are attached by screws,  through the wall and framing, producing a very strong structure.

Are other RVs built this way, well,  some may but most are not.
I have never heard of a LD cabinet or other interior part coming loose or undone but I have had the pleasure of having a cabinet fall off the wall in my parent's old Winnebaggo, makes quite a loud sound when it comes of while driving..
The cabinet was screwed from the interior with short screws, we found other interior pieces that were also loose.

For those of us who have removed a cabinet or couch, we discovered how well LD build things.
You don't "remove" the cabinet or couch, you destroy it, breaking it into small pieces .
Get rid of the allusion that if you removed a cabinet or couch it can be reinstalled at a later date, if desired.
It isn't going to happen...unless you build a new one.

Larry
Larry
2003 23.5' Front Lounge, since new.  Previously 1983 22' Front Lounge.
Tow vehicles  2020 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, 2001 Jeep Cherokee
Photo Collection: Lazy Daze
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
Reply #3 –
John Leach and I removed the driver side rear bunk from a mid bath to accommodate a spinning wheel. I can attest to the fact that we pretty much got down to taking it apart with small sledgehammers
2002 MB
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
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A spinning wheel?  A loom? I had no idea that people used RV's for such. We had always viewed it as a comfortable way to travel and see the country. Our vision has been very narrow. Maybe this accounts for people staying inside their rigs when parked?
Don & Dorothy
Sold our LD in June of 2023

Our boring always non-PC travel blog
Traveling Dorothy
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
Reply #5 –
Quote from: Larry W  - 
LD screws and glues every cabinet, bench seat or couch frames together. They do the same to the walls and anything other structural item installed. Yes, the whole rig is a built to be a mono structure.

For example, after the interior walls have been built, the interior pieces (cabinets, wall and  furniture) are attached by screws,  through the wall and framing, producing a very strong structure.

Are other RVs built this way, well,  some may but most are not.
I have never heard of a LD cabinet or other interior part coming loose or undone but I have had the pleasure of having a cabinet fall off the wall in my parent's old Winnebaggo, makes quite a loud sound when it comes of while driving..
The cabinet was screwed from the interior with short screws, we found other interior pieces that were also loose.

For those of us who have removed a cabinet or couch, we discovered how well LD build things.
You don't "remove" the cabinet or couch, you destroy it, breaking it into small pieces .
Get rid of the allusion that if you removed a cabinet or couch it can be reinstalled at a later date, if desired.
It isn't going to happen...unless you build a new one.

Larry
At one time I entertained removing one of the bench seats in my pull-out dinette area and took a couple of photos of how the framework is attached. In one photo (with chains) you can see the hex-like screw which is going into the floor. That would be easy enough to get out by routing out some wood surrounding it. In the other photo, you see the end of the screw which is holding the framework to the wall. It comes from the exterior and would have to be routed out and cut off at the wall in order to remove that part of the frame. Needless to say, I did not pursue this project.
Chris
Formerly: 2002 30' IB
 
Re: Cabinets and Structural Integrity
Reply #6 –
Photos have been posted in the past on LDO of LD’s during the construction process. I haves saved as many as I have found.

When comparing the construction process of SOB to the Lazy Daze, it is easy to see why LD’s when cared for properly can outlast the original owners and other RVs litter the junk yards.

My father would always remodel an RV after he purchased it to better suit his needs. He had passed before I purchased our RB. Had he been around today, I think he may have thought twice about tearing into an LD. But then again, maybe not.

Kent
2015 27' RB "MissB.Haven"