Has anyone fitted a new floor into an old trailer.....?

[Hippona]

Ok...bought an old Rice trailer.....bodywork is sound apart from front top-door which I have already sourced a replacement for.....

electrics,brakes,lights already been done by someone else and are working fine.
......lovely old wooden partition which I really like......floor is knackered (which I knew about) so thats my winter project......

......only I was at the yard earlier and having finished the stables and whilst waiting to pick the kids up......I went at it and ripped up the matting and started pulling up the rotten floor.....

....OH is at work and I am now having panic attacks as the whole thing looks like a blooming huge mess and what if it can't be mended!!!
AAAaarrggghhh.....what have I done......

Someone tell me is a simple job to fit a new wooden double-thickness floor.......mentally I have bypassed this and am choosing a colour scheme

 

[Aniseed]

I'm in the process of doing this myself but it sounds like mine needed a lot more work. I've sanded and angle grinded the whole thing and the boyf has welded a few rusty bits and last weekend I ripped up all the floor and the back ramp. The plan is to re-use some of the existing pine boards that were on the underside and replace a couple that were rotten. You just need to make sure that these are bolted to the frame in the same way that the originals were and then lay a ply board floor on top. You can't just use normal ply for this though as it rots. I think it needs to be marine ply and fairly thick, the stuff I ripped up was about 1 inch. It isn't that big a job, let me know how you get on though.

 

[Colleen_Miss_Tom]

Hubbie fitted a floor to our ifor williams and then sheeted it with 10 mm aluminum sheeting .

Was quite awhile ago .

I'll ask him when he comes in how he went about it as I just left him to it

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Not really my forte

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Thats if you haven't got an answer by then

 

[Hippona]

Phew...thank god for that.....TBH it looks like someone has replaced the floor with just plyboard, 2 thicknesses of .....so no wonder its gone through.

So the bottom layer needs to be floor-board type then? That makes it seem easier.....

I knew about the marine ply...just been googling that

Cheers for that....keep up the good work

 

[jessicahulme]

You can order a full aluminium floor for an Ifor Williams for about £300, don't know about other makes, but refitting a ply floor is relatively simple

 

[Angua2]

When we did my old trailer I used 2" hardwood planks on the reccomendation of a horsebox manufacturer. This was there was no layer for water and rot to get in. I was told by the "people in the know" that the floor would most likely out live the bodywork!

 

[wench]

I had mine done last year. Make sure boarding goes horzontally across box, not from front to back. Bolted to frame, plenty of creosote, job is a good'un!

 

[Hippona]

Thanks peeps.....panic attack over.....

.....got hold of OH, told him what you lot said re boards going widthways with boarding over top etc etc.....only for him to say he can do it no probs, no panic.....easy peasy blah blah blah......phew.

Googling flooring prices now, and my old guy (specialist rice trailer breaker man) has rung to say my top door will be delivered either today or tomorrow......

If only I was as motivated when it came to decorating our hallway...

 

[Spyda]

We used Marine ply when we did ours years ago. It's flipping heavy but doesn't rot when wet.

 

[Cop-Pop]

I bought an old Rice trailer on eBay for £100 - it had no floor at all. I took it to the local trailer place and they put a floor in it for about £200 - this included welding a load of bars across the bottom as well as most of them had rusted away