Hopefully someone know the answer to this question. My Thomas Payne power theater seats in my 2018 3921GK have come loose from the floor. It seems that the factory mounted them with thin cheap cabinet type screws and they have stripped out. I want to replace them with heavier duty lag screws and need to determine the length of the screws. Does anyone know the thickness of the slide out room floor? Thank you!

My table support was held down with small screws about 1 1/4"- 1 1/2" long if I recall correctly.

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None of our furniture is screwed down and nothing moves and we've been from Florida to Thompson, Manitoba and Florida to New Foundland and many places in between.

Ours are not attached to the floor, they are attached to each other by the center console. I have moved them to left to gain better access to the electrical plug in the slide wall.

From the factory there were four inch and a half thin screws holding each theater seat in place. Most of them were not completely screwed in. I find it surprising that people have units where these are not fastened down. When in the recline position if you lean forward (to pick up a small dog) the center of gravity moves forward and my theater seats started to tip forward. The screws actually pulled out of the floor. I did replace them with a larger (not longer) lag screw and used 6 screws per seat.

I recently replaced an uncomfortable jack knife sofa with a set of Thomas Payne manual recliners in my friends Thor Ace and fastened them down to the slide out floor with lags screws as well. Like my recliners they were prone to tipping forward in the recline position if any weight moved a bit forward.

Mine is in getting those same recliners fastened down. I gave up trying to pick anything up as I always ended up on the floor with chair on top of me. Forget trying to get up while it’s in the reclined position. I have to think they were meant to fastened somehow.

Yep I have small dogs that can't jump up on them and if you just lean forward to pick them up in the reclined position that's enough to cause them to tumble forward. Those little cheap screws the factory used definitely weren't strong enough. Maybe I'm just too fat! Lol!

I would like to be able to pull them away from the wall once we are all set up at a site so that we can recline. I wonder if I can just screw them to a longer piece of wood to act as a long foot or base (front to back on each side) so they won't tip so easy. Anyone tried this?

[Edit] Oops! I guess I am referring to the independent recliners, not the theater seating.

Not sure your exact situation, however you could use an adhesive and glue another piece of plywood to the existing along with the same length screw used from factory, after the adhesive is dry you could attach your unit using a longer screw that will go into both layers, much stronger!

Not sure your exact situation, however you could use an adhesive and glue another piece of plywood to the existing along with the same length screw used from factory, after the adhesive is dry you could attach your unit using a longer screw that will go into both layers, much stronger!

Thank you! Its not a bad idea. I'd have to cut out the carpet in this area as the entire floor under my recliners are carpeted. So far just replacing the pitiful little screws the factory used to secure the recliners with beefier lag bolts has solved the issue but those recliners put a lot of leverage force on the floor when they are opened and dogs are jumping on them! Lol!

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Sounds like you have it under control for now, good luck!