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Old 04-03-2021, 06:39 PM   #1
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2003/2004 Springdale 229FDLS--Remove Couch from slide?

Hello all! We just purchased a Springdale 229FDLS that is registered as a 2004, but I can only find that model as a 2003? It has a slide, and in the slide is the jack knife sofa which is wildly uncomfortable. It appears that the sofa is somehow built on a platform that goes in and out of the slide?

Has anyone ever removed the sofa from this type of trailer and replaced with recliners....thanks for your help!!
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Old 04-03-2021, 06:48 PM   #2
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This link will take you to one type of jackknife sofa and describes how that type is removed. Yours is probably similar in construction and should be removed fairly close to the way he removed his..... https://rvinspiration.com/rv-furnitu...-sofa-removal/
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Old 04-03-2021, 06:52 PM   #3
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Thank you! I'll try to take a picture of underneath tomorrow...the sofa in ours actually sits on a huge box that slides in and out of the slide itself...so we're concerned if we take it out we will do something to the slide....we're brand new so concerned!
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Thank you! I'll try to take a picture of underneath tomorrow...the sofa in ours actually sits on a huge box that slides in and out of the slide itself...so we're concerned if we take it out we will do something to the slide....we're brand new so concerned!
You won’t cause any problems with the slide. The platform the couch is secured to doesn’t provide any structural support for the slide.
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Old 04-04-2021, 04:46 AM   #5
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If your sofa is the type that I think it is, back then, travel trailers sat much closer to the ground with no slides and the sofa was designed to sit on the wheelwell, inside the trailer. When manufacturers raised the trailers above the wheels to add the slides, they had to build a box inside the trailer for the sofa to sit on.

So, it doesn't provide any "structural strength" to the slide and its only purpose is to have "something for the sofa to sit on"... In later years, the sofa manufacturers designed a "steel tubing base to replace the box and then added deeper storage to the bottom of the sofa.

Once you unscrew the sofa and remove it, you'll be left with a "box screwed to the walls and floor". Unscrew and remove that and hopefully you'll have carpet under the box. If you don't, if you're replacing the sofa, the "bare spot" will be under the sofa, so no worries. If you're not replacing the sofa, then you'll need to determine how to "decorate the hole in the carpet"...
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Old 04-04-2021, 08:39 AM   #6
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Thank you! I'll try to take a picture of underneath tomorrow...the sofa in ours actually sits on a huge box that slides in and out of the slide itself...so we're concerned if we take it out we will do something to the slide....we're brand new so concerned!

The only thing in a bumper pull that you need to take care with is boxes that cover the wheel wells. There is obviously no wheel well to contend with in a slide. Here is a pic from the web that I found of this box/couch... looks like the box will need to be removed to get a real sofa or recliners in that slide out:
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Thank you so much! This is really helpful!
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