RE: [A/S] Airstream Floor

["Perry Joe Scudder" <perryjoe@xxx>]

Hi All,
I hope I don't ever have to replace the floor in my 1998 Airstream, but if I
did I think I would use "Ground Contacting" "Salt Treated " plywood. Here in
the costal planes of NC, if it isn't salt treated (there are different
levels of salt treatment - "ground contacting" is the highest level of
treatment). Ground contacting is not the proper name for the treatment
level, but is the name used by local building supplies and contractors.
Sorry I don't know the proper treatment level names. I had some 2X6 timber
in the concrete slab of my last house that set on the ground on the bottom
edge, and water stood on the top edge in the small depression used to build
a pattern of blocks into the patio. That wood was as solid as a rock after
23 years when I sold the house, and it had never had any other treatment
added sense instillation. I have all the wood in the lower level of my
present house from this same treatment level, because I live in the "flood
plane", which means my house will have water in the lower level when the
right hurricane comes along. It also keeps the termites from eating the
wood. I stuck some sticks in the ground to hold up some new flowers for
Mary, and two of the six were not treated. The two non treated sticks fell
over in less than a month, when I checked to see why there was no stick left
where it had been in the ground. It was all eaten away by termites. One
learns quickly here - if it isn't treated and put together with stainless
fasteners it will not last more than a couple of years, if that.
Therefore, my question. Why not use this type of flooring plywood when
replacing the floor in your Airstream???

Joe Scudder
WBCCI 8624
Wilmington, NC