Painted Plwood Trailer Floor Vs Staining
Went about a foot up the walls and then used walmart brand heavy duty grey paint for the walls and its a major improvement altogether.
Painted plwood trailer floor vs staining. Because it is made of thin strips of wood glued together with adhesive it is a very efficient product to produce and is thus inexpensive. G p may have particular specifications you might find them here. Staining the deck paint generally comes out as the more durable and colorfast finish lasting 10 years or longer before requiring re application. What stain do you uses or does it matter.
My new trailer uses advantech and they specify an oil based primer with an oil or latex top coat or an oil based stain. I have some left over stain from the playhouse in my backyard. I will do that and the tarp is a good idea. The haulmark trailer i m buying has a 3 4 marine plywood floor in natural finish.
It is just decking stain with a red tint to it. Georgia pacific drymax high performance osb. That is more than i would like to spend. How to get a really good paint finish on plywood.
Much better than paint or a stain imo and the anti skid is great. Plywood just like any other wood requires preparation before painting. In normal architectural flooring applications plywood is used for sub flooring and not as the final floor. It does not take paint well even if you use a premium deck paint.
The trailer has drymax plywood floors moisture resistant osb and the dealer said that not many coatings will stick to it other than spray in bed liners. I am putting down sikkens cetol srd stain in a mahogany color. The quality of the preparation determines the finished quality of the. Valspar porch and floor enamel available at lowe s is an oil based floor paint that will provide a hard durable layer of color and protection for your plywood floor.
But in a head to head of painting vs. So stain it every year before winter with the wood on the trailer. Think that will be okay. There s an optional aluminum floor but it doesn t feel as sturdy and it would be noisy on a gravel road and slippery when wet.
An excellent alternative for plywood trailer floors is simply to use a deck stain instead of paint. I think it was like 35 bucks a gallon and i used a little over a gallon for my 6x12 enclosed. If the trailer flooring is plywood consider not painting it at all. The problem with the spray in liner is that the quote i received from rhino liner was 2200 to do the floor ramp door and one foot up the walls.
It goes on smooth and resists any chipping scuffing or abrasions for a long lasting finish.