Painted Plwood Trailer Floor Vs Staining

Think that will be okay.

Painted plwood trailer floor vs staining.

The haulmark trailer i m buying has a 3 4 marine plywood floor in natural finish. I am putting down sikkens cetol srd stain in a mahogany color. G p may have particular specifications you might find them here. 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.

How to get a really good paint finish on plywood. 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. 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. In normal architectural flooring applications plywood is used for sub flooring and not as the final floor.

Georgia pacific drymax high performance osb. It goes on smooth and resists any chipping scuffing or abrasions for a long lasting finish. If the trailer flooring is plywood consider not painting it at all. Staining the deck paint generally comes out as the more durable and colorfast finish lasting 10 years or longer before requiring re application.

But in a head to head of painting vs. I will do that and the tarp is a good idea. What do you guys do about staining or painting or tiling the floor so it doesn t turn brown with mud and crud with usage. An excellent alternative for plywood trailer floors is simply to use a deck stain instead of paint.

What stain do you uses or does it matter. It is just decking stain with a red tint to it. 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. I have some left over stain from the playhouse in my backyard.

The quality of the preparation determines the finished quality of the. Plywood is an amazingly versatile building material. Much better than paint or a stain imo and the anti skid is great. 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.

It does not take paint well even if you use a premium deck paint. When building with plywood you will often want to stain and finish the surface to enhance your project s beauty. 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. So stain it every year before winter with the wood on the trailer.

That is more than i would like to spend.