by artquixotic » Sun Aug 13, 2017 3:37 pm
We've been backpacking. And getting married. And I started a challenging new job with a long commute. Excuses. The trailer has been sitting in the driveway under a tarp and SUV cover. As a recap, the SUV cover leaked and held the moisture against the trailer for weeks, and damage resulted in a few small areas. (The cover retailer wants to replace it, but... fool me once.)
So now I've got 97% of the siding covered with many coats of nice oil paint. The other 3% is cracky/flaking. The failure was at wood filler and within the plywood. I scraped aggressively today and recoated with Bondo. I'm not sure what to recoat the entire body with to prevent more damage (we're in Seattle after all). I bought a bunch of sheets of relatively thick FRP, but I'm worried about making the edges look nice, plus I think the weight will pull the back hatch down. The stuff is heavy.
Thoughts on coating with a thick exterior polyurethane or something? The other finalist is canvas with oil-based paint in it (or the glue method, if that works with oil-based paint)? If it were bare wood, I'd go all-out foamie style, but given all the oil paint there...