Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

Hoping to place an order soon for parts. Looking at this door latch but wondering if there will be enough foam left for support when it is installed in a foam door. Thoughts ,suggestions, advice?

Temp , you might want to place a well protected piece of wood (?) where the latch will mount ... What we did , it was easy ...

Tempest wrote:Hoping to place an order soon for parts. Looking at this door latch but wondering if there will be enough foam left for support when it is installed in a foam door. Thoughts ,suggestions, advice?

I used the same kind of latch in my foamy but my doors had 1/4' plywood sheathing over a foam core with solid wood around the edges. You'll have to section in solid wood to support the latch. I don't think foam and PMF alone will hold up over the long term.

Thank you. I was planning on putting wood in for the hinges but didn't actually think about the latch area. I'll plan on installing wood there also.

I went into quite a bit of detail in my build thread showing how I added blocking and made router templates to cut the latch and bolt openings for that style of door latch. Made custom striker plates from SS because I didn't like the cheesy plates that came with them.

I just spent a fair bit of time searching thru my build trying to find the pertinent entries, but gave up before finding them (sorry, it is a big thread and I haven't built an index for it yet).