how much for new floor?

[Walder]

have posted on here about selling my old rice trailer - but i have cleaned it up and it looks quiete smart - so tomorrow have got someone coming to look at it to see if it need a new floor they have quoted £250 without matting (which i already have) hard wood floor inc vat and labour - is this a good price does anyone know? Still in a quandry as weather to sell or 'do up' what do you think. Its a rice double with front unload But im also wondering about an aluminium floor do you know if they can be fitted to an old trailer and are they much lighter than wood? x x

 

[PeterNatt]

£250 sounds too cheep to be honest. Make sure that they are using marine ply quality wood which is resistant to rotting.

Aluminium floors can be fitted to the newer trailers but check out with the manufacturers. Give them a ring and quote your trailers unique identity number to them so that they can identify if it can be done on your model.

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

Too cheap by the sounds of things I replaced a floor in my trailer with 2 layers of 18mm marine it took me a day to do and as the lady suggests it doesn't rot I'll tell you it does unless you know a way to keep it dry. By a 5L tin of bourne seal and coat a new floor in 4 or 5 layers of that stuff & you'll get a few more years out of it. If he proposing using planks then ask him who is timber supplier is as I'd like to buy from them

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[_daisy_]

Could you do it yourself? It only cost us about £50 to put a new floor on the ramp of our wagon. My dad did put it on so we didnt have to pay for labour

 

[Breezesbenefactor]

It's easy, but if you're crap with tool them let a pro do it, if you don't understand load bearing, pressure points and how to spot defects with the trailer them £200 extra seems little expense compared to an accident.

 

[custard]

We put a new floor in my old Rice eventer in 1992 and they did a complete floor kit with all the hardwood planks pre-cut to length, the kit was around this price then!

We also costed doing it ourselves and hardwood was very expensive and would have been like concrete to saw.

Seriously speak to Rice direct, the floor kit was simple to fit for a competent DIY person and at least then you know it's the pukka floor for the trailer.

The hardwood they use is called Keroin and needs no 'treatment' so long as you don't leave wet bedding in the box.