What stain do you uses or does it matter.
Painted plwood trailer floor vs staining.
An excellent alternative for plywood trailer floors is simply to use a deck stain instead of paint.
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.
My new trailer uses advantech and they specify an oil based primer with an oil or latex top coat or an oil based stain.
But in a head to head of painting vs.
I have some left over stain from the playhouse in my backyard.
I will do that and the tarp is a good idea.
If the trailer flooring is plywood consider not painting it at all.
Plywood just like any other wood requires preparation before painting.
It does not take paint well even if you use a premium deck paint.
It is just decking stain with a red tint to it.
So stain it every year before winter with the wood on the trailer.
G p may have particular specifications you might find them here.
I am putting down sikkens cetol srd stain in a mahogany color.
I think it was like 35 bucks a gallon and i used a little over a gallon for my 6x12 enclosed.
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.
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.
Plywood is an amazingly versatile building material.
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.
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.
Georgia pacific drymax high performance osb.
It goes on smooth and resists any chipping scuffing or abrasions for a long lasting finish.
Staining the deck paint generally comes out as the more durable and colorfast finish lasting 10 years or longer before requiring re application.
That is more than i would like to spend.
How to get a really good paint finish on plywood.
Think that will be okay.
The haulmark trailer i m buying has a 3 4 marine plywood floor in natural finish.
The quality of the preparation determines the finished quality of the.
Much better than paint or a stain imo and the anti skid is great.