Thinking of finishing the marine grade plywood floor of my toy hauler house. I’m a little leery of carpet when I will be driving a quad on it and not excited to carry another piece of something to put down.
Is there some sort of rubber that isn’t slippery, or can some form of bedliner paint or epoxy be used? Pros/cons or past experience appreciated.
Home Depot sells a paint for outdoor things like piers. Can’t remember what it is called. I did the floor of my enclosed trailer. Works great holds up well. You can pick whatever color you want….I want to say it was called deck over paint. …
Give hydro turf a look. Works great in heavy use boats.
A good friend of mine had LineX sprayed on the floor of his enclosed Work trailer as well as enclosed 6 place snowmobile trailer. It holds up really well.
I also used the Rustoleum roll on bed liner on wood and metal, it is rubbery and fairly durable. If you want any sort of thickness you have to roll 4 coats but that would be easy on a flat floor. But I’m not sure about dry/cure time this time of year. I assume you would be keeping it heated for about a week to dry if you did not have a heated area to keep it.
I just bought myself an enclosed trailer that I’m going to kind of turn into a toy hauler. From the research I’ve done some have used vinyl sheet garage type flooring with the coin or diamond texture. Some have used vinyl sheet kitchen type flooring. But most use either a spray or roll-on bedliner or a two-part epoxy garage floor coating.
Both of the vinyl options require some skill to install and would be best glued down.
The Bedliner definitely holds up, but can be difficult to sweep out and typically needs a pressure washer to get it completely cleaned. The garage floor coating sounds like it holds up great and fairly easy to clean. You can add grit to it as well if you’d like.
I’m seriously looking at the garage floor coating because it sounds like it would be the most cost effective and easiest solution. You just need to find one that’s rated for wood as well. I found one on Amazon called Supercoat that says it is for concrete and wood.
But most use either a spray or roll-on bedliner or a two-part epoxy garage floor coating.
I’m seriously looking at the garage floor coating because it sounds like it would be the most cost effective and easiest solution. You just need to find one that’s rated for wood as well. I found one on Amazon called Supercoat that says it is for concrete and wood.
I just did the rustoleum epoxy floor coating. I cant speak to durability because i have not used it. but it makes a nice looking floor. The down side is this stuff must be applied when temps are above 60 degrees or curing will take forever. even at 60 degrees mine took several days, so a heated shop would be needed any more this year
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For anyone wanting to just paint the floor of any outdoor enclosure adding several handfuls of sand to your paint while mixing it adds some pretty good traction.
Munchy- Be careful with Linoleum type flooring in fish houses. Not sure if that is what you are referring to but they get very slippery with ice, ice chips or snow on them. Just don’t want to end up seeing ya get hurt.
I have carpet in my Yetti Toy Hauler. It is an outdoor carpet with a rubber backing. I usually steam clean it once a year to get the fathead scales and other grime off but have never had issues with ATV tires.
I have a friend who just built his own toy hauler house and he used a rubber matting like i’ve seen in other production houses. I am weary that it would become slippery when your boots are packed with snow.
I would suggest that you consider Tuff Coat (Cabela’s #016662). I used it on my enclosed trailer – it is thicker than paint and contains sand…definitely non-skid. I used the trailer for both my snow machine and atv – no appreciable wear. Sold the trailer on IDO site and bought a Mission double wide (put on plastic trac….that x@3# is going to be gone and Tuff Coat is going on next spring).
bestfishes – jim
I used the rustoleum 1 part garage floor paint with chips. I also throw down two rubber backed commercial carpet runners. In the spring I hit them with dawn and a scrub brush. Then I power wash them. Gets the fish stink off. I also run the sled on the runners to keep the carbides from scraping everything up.
Contact Clint from Ice Assault. He has the best indoor heavy duty carpet for a fish house in the market.
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