A better plywood floor

[pabusnut]

Scott,

I am planning on building a house(the fixed to the ground type--not mobile) next year, and all the builders are using Advantec for flooring, exterior sheathing, and roof deck.  They stated you could use exterior plywood, but it is not as good as the Advantec.  I am from Missouri, so I will be doing my own tests first.

Steve

[Scott & Heather]

Steve, cut a square, stick it in red dyed water. Submerge it. It won't soak it up. If it's genuine Advantech I promise you.


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[Darkspeed]

well a year and a half of no windshield in the bus and some rain coming in, I am still VERY happy with the AdvanTech waterproof plywood.

It was uncoated all of that time. I just went back and put a coat of oil based porch paint on it and it is solid as a rock.

I took a scrap of it a year and a half ago and put it in a know termite nest and just recently digging it out of the ground it was discolored, had a few flaking fibers, but was still structural and uneaten!

[busfan]

When it's your vibrating flexing living space the less voc toxic glue the better, looks like advantec/chipboard has a lot more glue vs marine plywood.

Depending on your type of bus and climate, you can use whatever you want; but for the time and effort?

For my new bus floor living in Oregon in a 4103, I am choosing Marine plywood. 

I am even considering slightly tilting the floor toward the exterior, leak proof

http://www.christinedemerchant.com/marine_plywood_grades.html

[Scott & Heather]

The glue fumes haven't killed me yet. And it hasn't killed the thousands of people living in homes in California that are using it. I'm much more likely to die if a myriad of other things than the glue impregnated in my wood floor which is sealed underneath a solid unseamed sheet of vinyl glued to it. It doesn't take any more time nor effort to use Advantech. I wish more people would use it because it seems that the floors on most campers gets soft and is the first thing to rot out.


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[busfan]

Yea, depends on your allergies and the state of you immune system, my mother in law bought a new thor which makes her swell up like a balloon.

After first camping trip of 3 days in Carolina she went to emergency room, then after 5 day cross country she was admitted in Oregon for a week.

As the doctor put it she is slightly above rock bottom and any small thing like formaldehyde gas can bring her to rock bottom, your choice.