Trailer floors

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This might sound like a really daft question, but maybe someone knows! I bought a second hand Ifor Williams 510. It's age would suggest it has a wooden floor (1995 - but in really good nick) but the girl I got it from said it was an aluminium floor.
Under the mats it's a black colour and when you jump up and down it doesn't sound like wood. Underneath the trailer, it definately isn't wood. It is one sheet and metal coloured but when you knock it with a fist it sounds like plastic!! I have looked under a brand new 510 and it is obviously aluminium but then it's shiny and new!!
How do you know with these trailers....does anyone have one with a wooden floor and if so, can you describe it under the mats and loking from underneath. I am waiting on the guy at the farm to service it so I'm sure he'll know but am just curious. Thanks.
 
If i'm right then the slightly older ifors (post wooden,pre alloy floors) they have a resin floor.I think that is what my Ifor has.Might be wrong though!.
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The ali floors are shiny aluminium planks as you thought and they came in in about 2000 I think. Yours sounds like the older one piece 'wooden floor'. Just check the edges along the sides because I bought one a few years ago that was 1998 and the floor was rotten all arround the edges. The seller had jet washed it inside to be viewed. I thought how nice of them but really they were trying to hide the wet patches on the floor. Scary.
 
If I remember rightly they are length ways planks of shiny silver Aluminium. Deffinately not black.
The old floors were one piece and black. Maybe its wood over Aluminium. A freind of mines done this but the trailer owner would know if she'd had this done.
 
Sorry just read your post again, you have bought the trailer. IW replace the floors for about £600 and they arent in one piece they are like length ways planks or were, maybe ring them and ask as Im sure they would know if the Ali tarnishes with age.
 
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