# Bunkhouse Fifth Wheel Repair for Family Rigs > A bunkhouse fifth wheel adds a rear sleeping room, a second entry door and often an extra slide, which changes the rear structure and doubles the interior wear. OCRV Center repairs bunk room structure, doors, slides and interiors in shop. Camper body work is posted at $750 to $50,000 across 5 to 250 hours. Source: https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/campers-trailers/bunkhouse-fifth-wheel-repair/ Business: OCRV Center, 23281 La Palma Ave, Yorba Linda, CA 92887. (949) 799-3387. Serving Tustin, California. Ballpark range: $750 to $50,000. Posted rates at https://ocrv.biz/prices/ ## What does a second entry door do to the sidewall? It puts a second large hole in a wall that was doing structural work. A fifth wheel sidewall is a laminated panel carrying shear between the floor and the roof, and every opening cut in it, doors, windows and slide rooms, is reinforced locally by a frame around the opening. On a bunkhouse the rear entry door often sits close to a rear slide opening, and the material between those two openings can be narrow. That narrow section is where flex concentrates. It shows up as a diagonal crack in the sidewall between the door and the slide, or as a door that starts binding at one corner after a season. Treating that as a door adjustment is the common mistake. The honest repair opens the wall between the two openings, restores or adds reinforcement, then repairs the panel. Entry, baggage and compartment door repair is posted at $400 to $4,500 across 2 to 20 hours, and structural work at $750 to $20,000 across 5 to 80 hours. See [structural repair](/services/frame-structural-repair/). ## Why does the rear of a bunkhouse take more punishment? Weight and position. The bunk room sits at the extreme rear, behind the axles, and it carries beds, a second bathroom on many floor plans, sometimes a washer prep and always a lot of stored belongings. Everything behind the axle centre acts on a lever, and the further back it is the more it amplifies road input into the rear cap and the rear frame extension. What comes in as a result: rear cap gelcoat cracking at the corners, rear frame extension sag on trailers where the frame was extended rather than designed long, ladder mounts pulling, and bumper mounted accessories that have started to work loose. Fiberglass cap repair is posted at $750 to $12,000 across 4 to 60 hours. Where the rear frame extension has moved, that is measured and corrected before any cosmetic work goes on, because refinishing a cap on a sagging rear produces a crack in the same place the following year. ## How does family use change the interior estimate? Substantially, and not in ways that show on an insurance photograph. A bunkhouse gets used by more people, more often, and by people who are not gentle with it. The wear is real and it is repairable, but it is spread across many small items rather than concentrated in one. - Bunk ladders and safety rails, whose mounting points loosen and then tear the panel behind them. - Bunk mattress platforms, which get stood on and jumped on and eventually crack at the support cleat. - Cabinet doors and drawer slides throughout, at maybe three times the rate of a couples coach. - Flooring at the second door threshold and in the bunk room, where sand and grit get walked in daily. - Wall panels at bunk height, dented and scuffed along the whole length of the room. - The second bathroom, which sees heavy use and where a shower pan crack is common. Cabinetry repair, refacing and custom build is posted at $500 to $7,500 across 4 to 35 hours, flooring replacement at $750 to $9,500 across 6 to 40 hours, and shower, tub and pan replacement at $750 to $5,500 across 4 to 25 hours. Full interior remodel work on a camper runs $1,500 to $35,000 across 15 to 150 hours. ## What about the extra slide room? A bunkhouse usually carries one more slide than an equivalent non bunk floor plan, frequently a small rear slide with a bunk or a dinette in it. Small slides are not simpler than large ones. They often use a Schwintek in wall drive, which is compact and neat and very sensitive to alignment and to the room being pushed or pulled while it operates. Symptoms of a Schwintek out of sync are distinctive: the room goes in or out at an angle, one side stops before the other, or the motor stalls part way. Correcting it means resynchronising the drives and, more importantly, finding out what caused them to lose sync in the first place. Slide out mechanism service is posted at $500 to $8,500 across 3 to 35 hours, seal replacement at $400 to $3,000 across 2 to 14 hours, and slide room rebuild and structural repair at $1,500 to $7,500 across 10 to 35 hours. All are on the [prices page](/prices/). ## Questions ### There is a diagonal crack between my rear door and the slide opening. Why there? Because that is the narrowest piece of structural sidewall on the trailer. Two large openings close together leave a slim section carrying the shear between them, and flex concentrates in it. The repair restores or adds reinforcement in that section before the panel is made good. ### My bunk ladder has pulled the wall panel where it mounts. Can that be fixed? Yes, and it is a common bunkhouse job. The mount needs backing material added behind the panel so the load spreads into structure rather than into the laminate face. Repairing the panel alone without adding backing puts the same tear back within a season of normal use. ### Is a bunkhouse harder to insure or repair after a claim? No, but the interior scope is usually larger than the exterior damage suggests because a bunkhouse has more fitted furniture per foot than other floor plans. The shop bills carriers direct and the collision estimate carries no charge for insurance walk ins. ### Can bunks be removed and the room converted? Frequently requested as children get older. Converting a bunk room into an office, a workshop or a second lounge is interior remodel work, posted at $1,500 to $35,000 across 15 to 150 hours for a camper, and it usually includes new flooring, wall panels, lighting and cabinetry in that room. ### One side of my small rear slide comes in before the other. What is that? That is the classic sign of a Schwintek in wall drive that has lost synchronisation, usually because the room met resistance or the trailer was not level when it was operated. Resynchronising is straightforward. Finding what caused it, worn rollers, a seal dragging or a racked room, is the actual repair. ## Related - [Campers and Trailers](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/campers-trailers/) - [Standard Fifth Wheels](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/campers-trailers/fifth-wheel-repair/) - [Slide-Out Fifth Wheels](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/campers-trailers/slide-out-fifth-wheel-repair/) - [Luxury Destination Fifth Wheels](https://ocrv.biz/vehicles/campers-trailers/luxury-destination-fifth-wheel-repair/) - [Interior Remodeling and Repair](https://ocrv.biz/services/interior-remodeling/) - [Slide-Out Repair](https://ocrv.biz/services/slide-out-repair/) - [Frame and Structural Repair](https://ocrv.biz/services/frame-structural-repair/) - [Prices and Posted Rates](https://ocrv.biz/prices/)