Two place trailer decking

[knzee]

I am going to replace the decking on a two place aluminum trailer and Floe said to use a marine grade plywood. This stuff is hard to find in 5/8" thick and the stuff I have found is outragous in price. Has anyone used pressure treated plywood and put a wood sealer on it? How well is it holding up?

 

[Kevin]

You might check out this thread: Wood trailer deck covering idea!

 

[knzee]

Thanks. I guess it I will use pressure treated with this stuff and see how it works.

 

[Coldfinger]

I'm not sure if the pressure treated stuff will cause metal that comes in contact with it to corrode but maybe someone here knows the answer. Just something to consider.

Something else - on my Triton, the sheets appear to slide into channels on the sides which limits thickness of the plywood, but, if you buy thicker ply and then router down the outside edge/s to the right thickness maybe that would work.

 

[knzee]

Yeah, I heard that the pressure treating chemical can corrode the welds. Some say that they changed the chemical a long time ago so it is not to worry about it. From the looks of it the plywood on the deck now is routered already so I am going to have to do that anyway. I guess will just pull it off and put some pressure treated with a sealer of some type on to help keep the moisture out. The marine grade that I could get from Windsor Plywood here in town is $170/sheet, so that is out of the question.