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FEMA Trailers and formaldehyde...

Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 9:32 pm
by skater
Has anyone else been following the story with the FEMA trailers? Apparently they've now found elevated levels of formaldehyde in them. Here's my concern: those trailers are made by the same companies that make "name-brand" trailers, off the same production lines (not Airstream, but still) - so do all RVs have elevated levels of formaldehyde in them?

I'm not really worried about it, especially since I don't stay in mine long-term. But I am curious about it. I wonder if we'll be seeing more about this in upcoming months from the RV manufacturers.

Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:17 am
by skater
Quick update on this:

It seems like the problem is the formaldehyde used in cheap particleboard and plywood is mostly to blame.

We have oak cabinets. :) There is some particleboard in our campers - in mine, the bunk of the bed is particleboard, for example. The walls appear to be plywood.

As I suspected, this issue probably doesn't affect our B-vans at all. Yet another reason to buy Airstream! :)