Hi Warddog161,
There are no dumb questions here on Sunline owners club, just questions you need help with, so ask away.
You stated you have a 1150, H'mm OK what does he have? I looked back at your first post, and you have a C-1150, a truck camper. But I did not see what year it was. What year is it? For the future, list your camper as a year XXXX, C-1150; then we know the year, type of camper, and floor plan. Sunline used, C= truck camper, T= travel trailer, F= fifth wheel, and I'm not sure what the motor homes had as a type of camper. The way the campers were made evolved over the years, so knowing the year helps.
Now knowing a little more about what you have, here are some answers.
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1) While reading literature provided with my Sunline 1150, I noticed it mentioned floor heating for my model. Is this actually heated floors? If so how do I control it?
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I'm not exactly sure where you found the "floor heating" wording, but we learn something new every day here. Most times, on the smaller campers (and your truck camper is a smaller one) the furnace has a blower that the hot air for the living space comes out of the front furnace grate which is normally mounted down by the floor in the side of a cabinet. The grate had bent louvers to direct the air, some up and some down I believe. The smaller campers had no ducted heat, but the larger campers did as the camper was longer and the heat ducts carried the heat in ducts inside the cabinets (above the floor) to the other rooms. There were very limited longer campers that had a floor-mounted heat duct, it only had them as the above floor duct could not reach that area.
I think what you have read is, some marketing buzz words, the heat grate on the front of the furnace might blow down to the floor, warming the floor. There only way to change the heat temp is to adjust the furnace temp set point. A truck camper has very little floor structure to allow "in-floor ducted heat."
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2) is the roof load bearing? I'm not sure how the camper is built and what is structural and not structural. Seems a bit squishy up there but would love to have an idea before I go parading around up there in the nude (joke) and falling through or causing leaks.
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First off, you get bonus points for asking this question!
. It is a very good question, "most" Sunline roofs were not declared as "walk-on" roofs. Walking over a non-walk-on roof without the correct support will damage the roof or hurt you.
They had rafters to span the width of the camper, then a roof membrane over the rafters. At times they could use 1/8" luan to add membrane support, but it was not people load bearing. Sunline did offer "optional" full or partial walk-on roofs, but the camper had to be ordered that way. The non-walk-on roof was to save weight. To service the roof, you place a tarp or other protective blanket to not scratch the roof down first. Then put small pieces of 3/8" or thicker plywood down to span the rafters and spread your load out. Small 2 ft x 4 ft or 30" wide by 40" wide is light enough to haul up on the roof but yet wide enough to span the nominal 16" on center rafters. Heads up, if your camper has roof water damage, the rafters may be rotted. Depending on the model year, the roof where seamed aluminum or, later, rubber membranes.
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3) I'm not even going to get into the lighting of furnace, fridge, water heater, stove. Seems original information book would have had instructions in the binder everything else is in there like types of materials, how great they are etc etc but not how to use it. Guess back in 1990 people were pretty darn smart. IM 53 guess I missed that part of schooling.
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We are not sure what your manual has left in it. There are instructions manuals in our files sections. I'll post how to get to that info in the next reply.
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4) This is a bigger and I know the truth just trying not to face it. Can I carry my 1150 with my 2000 Ford F250 Super Duty with short box (about 6'8")? I see alot of conflicting videos on YouTube, and you know they are all experts!! I'm only going 2.5 miles up the road to a lot next a marina where my boats are until I buy a long bed truck dually. Thanks in advance for "HELPFUL" or humorous replies.
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We can try and help here, but this starts with the model year of your camper. The C-1150 was a bigger one of the truck campers, but knowing the year, we can look up the size and weight and see how it stacks up to your F250. Give us the year of your camper, and we can help better.
I hope this helps,
John
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