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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby TheOtherSean » Sun Apr 24, 2016 10:12 am

You do mean "floor" rather than "flour", correct? The first being the horizontal structural component you stand on, the latter being finely ground particles.
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Woodbutcher » Sun Apr 24, 2016 11:55 am

"finely ground particles" ? Did you mean finely ground wheat?


My floors are covered with this..... https://www.menards.com/main/doors-wind ... 994270.htm
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby TheOtherSean » Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:06 pm

Woodbutcher wrote:"finely ground particles" ? Did you mean finely ground wheat?


Flour can be made from cereal grains other than wheat. If it is glacial or rock flour, it is instead finely-ground bits of rock caused by grinding from glacial erosion.
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby JaggedEdges » Sun Apr 24, 2016 6:37 pm

Cornmeal, then it doesn't stick and you can flip it easier.
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Fenlason » Sun Apr 24, 2016 7:23 pm

:laughter:
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby GPW » Mon Apr 25, 2016 5:11 am

SC, We still use the black nasty stuff ... Not the most Fun to apply but is inexpensive and really seems to protect the bottom ... We also tried the spray undercoating , but that was more expensive ... ;)

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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Padilen » Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:17 am

I'm all most done insulating underneath my CT. I'm using ridged foam, that petroleum eats. I want to coat it with something inexpensive, what is the black nasty stuff?
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Fenlason » Mon Apr 25, 2016 6:43 am

GPW wrote:SC, We still use the black nasty stuff ... Not the most Fun to apply but is inexpensive and really seems to protect the bottom ... We also tried the spray undercoating , but that was more expensive ... ;)

We are here to Help people rather than make fun of their inadequacies ... :roll:


I didn't see any of it as making fun of Slow… auto correct or what ever the cause… It was just sort of funny… and it took off from there… :NC :shrug:
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Nobody » Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:11 am

Mike, I used some kind of asphalt coating mixture, either asphalt roof coating or fence post coating. Think the brand name may have been Henry's?? You should be able to find it at any Farm/Ranch supply store. It goes on sticky but mine dried to touch in a day or so. I then cut 1" thick blueboard foam insulation into sections & fitted them into the recesses that my frame created under the actual floor board (1/2" exterior grade plywood). Lotsa folks don't like the black, sticky stuff but mine went on easily, dried relatively fast & has held up well for nearly 10 years & almost 30K miles. Think I may have used a bead or two of liquid nails or some other adhesive between the foam & the floor, but mainly I cut small (1/2" square) 'battens & stapled 'em to the frame to help hold the foam in place. Here's pix- - -

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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby daveesl77 » Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:31 am

I over-did mine, but I sealed the ply with the initial level of the mix, then covered the floor bottom first with PMF using TB2 on both sides of the canvas, let harden for a week and then did two coats of what we call"Kool Seal" (elastometric roof coating). I used cool seal because 1) I know it works on roofs and 2) I had 5 gallons of the stuff laying around and needing to be used. All things considered, I'd do the same thing again, as it is really easy to clean. After over 4000+ miles so far on Conch Fritter, it looks just like it did the day I put it on. 1 gallon will easily cover the bottom of a small camper with plenty left over after 2 coats.

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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Dale M. » Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:59 am

And smart phones are not "smart". It's just hype the cell phone manufacturers/companies use to suck you into buying them....

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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Fenlason » Mon Apr 25, 2016 1:01 pm

Dale M. wrote:And smart phones are not "smart". It's just hype the cell phone manufacturers/companies use to suck you into buying them....

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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby dguff » Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:09 pm

Just paint it.
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby Roly Nelson » Mon Apr 25, 2016 2:15 pm

Hi Slow, I understand I made a mistake by covering the bottom of my floor with plywood. It is a good place to get dryrot, in the event the enclosed area gets wet and can't dryout. My 1/4 inch woody bottom has been shot with LineX, an expensive truckbed liner. Big mistake, since I feel it added unwanted weight to my tear, because is is so thick and heavy. My other tear's bottoms, are simply coated with roofing mastic, applied with a brush, requiring throwing away the clothing worn while application was made. No problems so far. I suggest you do the same, and leave off the sheet metal you mentioned. Keep us posted as to what you are gonna do.
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Re: what do you line the undeside of the flour with???

Postby JaggedEdges » Mon Apr 25, 2016 8:38 pm

Yah, I've seen a lot of rotten floors in campers with metal under, don't seem to work any better than leaving it nekkid might.
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