LittleCritter wrote:... My father-in-law who is a Scamp/Casita enthusiast felt that I should be using marine grade plywood or treated lumbar for the floor.
Should I be going to the store for this?
Hey there, Darla!
As far as I've been able to determine, the only difference between marine-grade plywood and construction-grade exterior plywood is the quality of the vaneers in the inner layers (unless you get the marine-grade with the mahogany outer vaneer) ... the glues are identical, so the overall duraility is identical. Unless you will be working with the thinner dims. of plywood, the results will be the same, but you'll save a bucket of $$$ by going with the construction-grade
exterior stuff.
As someone else has already said, before you go thinking about splicing pieces of plywood together, do a real thorough search of the lumberyards within a couple of hundred miles of you ... 4'x10', 4'x12', 5'x9' (standard Ping-Pong table stock), 5'x10', and even 5'x12' plywood is available ... might be a bit expensive, but man does it save a
lot of work!
Good Luck with your upcoming build! In the meantime ...
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