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Originally Posted by Tonys67ss
Thank you guys. I forgot to mention an important piece of information. I live in this full time. I'm not home much due to a crazy work schedule and thought leaving the windows open would help with ventilation. It's parked under a huge canopy/carport. At first I was leaving all the vents and windows closed but would come home to a really hot and stuffy trailer.
How would you apply the glue to the blistering area if there's no access to the back side of the paper? Injecting glue into the bubble. Then roll out the air bubbles?
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Go to Tractor Supply or another livestock/feed store and buy a couple of 10CC syringes and some 20 ga 1.5" needles. Pull the plunger from a syringe and pour in Elmer's wood glue, insert the plunger and put a needle on the end of the syringe. Use a damp hand towel and an iron set on low temperature. Cover a blister with the hand towel, use the iron to warm the area, when it's warm and the vinyl is plyable, use the syringe to inject some glue into the bubble. Use your finger to massage the glue around under the bubble then massage the air out of the hole left by the needle. Place the towel back over the blistered area and use the iron to help flatten the vinyl covering.
If it lays flat, let the glue dry. If the blistered area looks like it's going to "bubble up" again, use a small piece of flat plastic or a small piece of thin plywood and a C-clamp (or spring clamp) to hold the vinyl flat for a day or two (until the glue dries and the vinyl is adhered to the area). Repeat on the other blistered areas. If there is any of the glue weeping from the needle hole, use a piece of wax paper between the vinyl and your flat surface (plastic or plywood).
I think the problem is two-fold. First issue is humidity that got into the trailer and into the wood when you were leaving the windows open and second is the heat that caused the vinyl to separate from the wood/MDF under it. Once the humidity and heat had a chance to do their damage, it took several weeks/months for it to finally become large enough for you to notice. Fix it now, but remember how you go about it. I would almost guarantee you that in a few months, when the weather changes, you'll find more areas that separate from the base layer and you'll need to repeat the process.....