Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

I have a 4x8 that is almost finished... Just need paint and trim.

I am contemplating painting the exterior either myself with Herculiner or profesionally with truck bed liner.

Has anyone tried this?

How does it work for sealing against leaks?

How well would it hide divets from sanding and other imperfections in the body?

Any other thoughts or ideas?

I have consdidered many othe routes but it may be most effecient for me to go this route. I was thinking about using white.

Any comments/answers/ suggestions will be greatly appreciated. I plan to paint Monday...

Thank you, Dustin

I did mine in Rhino liner.

http://www.tnttt.com/viewtopic.php?t=30597

How does it work for sealing against leaks?
I had all 6 sides covered, she has been in the rain and no leaks.
How well would it hide divets from sanding and other imperfections in the body?
The guys who did mine said it goes on like water so the smoother the surface is the beter it will come out. I used Bondo and fiberglass tape. It came out really good and I love the way it looks . They then toped it with an automotive paint..

I would do it again, but beware of the price it isnt cheap. I did it because I dont want any fuss with the exterior and I built it for me as a herloom.

...no personal experience...just what I have picked up around here...some folks have had wonderful luck with it and some have had disasters...first off, kinda like paint, the smoother the underlayment, the better looking the job...secondly, seams seem to be the weak point...sealing all seams with FG tape, including the edge joins will go a long way to making a better job of it....if it were mine and I were going to do a bedliner, I think I would seal all wood with epoxy and all seams with FGtape/epoxy, then apply the bedliner...wouldn't be the cheapest way to go but would go a long way to eliminating any worries about leakage......
madjack

What Jack said.. Thats whut I did..

What Jack said x2

I can't remember who it was, but I do remember the pic of the trailer with the plywood seam lifting up under the liner. Point is...you want a really solid and sealed surface under that stuff. Ought to last forever with a good substrate!!!

I did mine with Duraback And I love it. Very indestructible. But you do have to tape the seams with fiberglass tape and epoxy like Mad jack said. Elmo was the guy who's seams came apart because he did not glass tape them.

Durabak == Herculiner, just in more colors. Basically a thick (and agressive curing) polyurathane with ground up bits of tire in it.

The bottom of my trailer is herc. I'd need a 2nd coat to make it 100% waterprooof with the herc, but it wasn't necessary. I have plywood behind the steel frame, epoxyed the ply, primed the steel. Has been good for 3-4 yeasrs. I sprayed it on with a undercoat gun. took all of 20 min to do the whole trailer.

A flexy substrate will definitely fail with herc or other "hard" liners like line-x. Rhino is softer and much more rubbery.

I'd consider DrCrash the definitve expert on this. And, he just got his trailer back from being coated.



Do whatever he says, cuz the results speak for themselves!

chorizon wrote:I'd consider DrCrash the definitve expert on this. And, he just got his trailer back from being coated.



Do whatever he says, cuz the results speak for themselves!

Thank you for the complement.. I just took my time and spent alot of time bugging the guys at the Rhino lining place..
We are seting sail for atlanta Georga tomorow with a 4 day stop over in Chatinooga Tn.. We will be on 75 south all the way.
I give an update when we get back..

Seems almost like the rubber stuff you can dip you tool handles in! I 3rd th comment, or wa that 4th, about taping all the seems -- this is the only place, it would, seem, that the coating might have issues. Even if, the tape should put the Kibosh on that.