Finishing a trailers floor

[Mr Sunshine]

So yesterday I picked up my new trailer. Its pretty nice with its white vinyl finished walls. But the floor is just plain plywood. That has to change.

I know there is vinyl tiles, epoxy with sand mixed in for grip or just plain painting it.

What sort of floor finishes do you guys do and why?

[steadyeddie]

Don't use the 'peel and stick' tiles. Tried them and they are junk. I had to pull all of them out after 1 year. If you decide to use tiles ( vinyl not porcelain ) use a heavy duty type that requires a spreadable glue to adhere( 3 years later still no peeling of tiles ). Prime the floor first to prepare and protect it. Any flooring store will be able to help out.

[Mr Sunshine]

Don't use the 'peel and stick' tiles. Tried them and they are junk. I had to pull all of them out after 1 year. If you decide to use tiles ( vinyl not porcelain ) use a heavy duty type that requires a spreadable glue to adhere( 3 years later still no peeling of tiles ). Prime the floor first to prepare and protect it. Any flooring store will be able to help out.


Good to know. Interesting that you should prime the floor before you apply a glue down floor though. I would think you wouldn't want to prime the floor so the glue can bond with the wood better.

[Darkside]

I agree about the vinyl tile..I'm pulling mine up and putting down a rhino liner type on the floor of mine. A little hard on the feet but seals and protects much better. IMO

[Hypnotiq]

Its fairly cheap to have the bottom Rhino Lined. That's what I'm doing to mine. :)

[piper907]

my trailer is rhino-lined and it is great!

[Mr Sunshine]

Its fairly cheap to have the bottom Rhino Lined. That's what I'm doing to mine. :)


Define cheap? Its $450 for a truck bed. To do the floor of the trailer it gonna be more.

[timk]

There's cheap and then there's cheap. I painted the floor of my trailer with regular gray floor paint for less than 1/10th the cost of rhino lining it. It's obviously not as bomb-proof but it has held up for 7 seasons.

Priced somewhere in between the cheap paint and the lining would be the 2-part epoxy garage floor paint I used on the concrete floor of my shop. That stuff has been amazing on the shop floor so it might be worth investigating as a trailer floor option.

[tarheel]

You can buy the Rhino Lining stuff and apply it yourself (interior floor)..It costs $100.

It has been used in the floor of many jeeps and such around here. Works great!

[Darkside]

I bought the rhino wanna be stuff from Shucks..was something like $100 to do the tail gate on my trailer.

[Mr Sunshine]

There's cheap and then there's cheap. I painted the floor of my trailer with regular gray floor paint for less than 1/10th the cost of rhino lining it. It's obviously not as bomb-proof but it has held up for 7 seasons.

Priced somewhere in between the cheap paint and the lining would be the 2-part epoxy garage floor paint I used on the concrete floor of my shop. That stuff has been amazing on the shop floor so it might be worth investigating as a trailer floor option.

Um and I think I have a gallon of the epoxy stuff in my garage as I used that same stuff on my garage floor several years ago.
I guess I'll just mix in some sand with it and go at it.

Thanks.