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  Bigyin September 8, 2010 at 1:16pm

  How about using a sheet of something like this on the floor.
  http://www.discount-mats.com/safety-step.html
  Whip it out once a week and dry the van floor. Easier to remove and replace presuming your van floor has fixed boarding ?
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  Anthony Toop September 8, 2010 at 2:53pm

  If i remember correctly, Paul, aka Proguard has some sort of coating painted on to his vans floor that is hard wearing and i guess waterproof!
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  Anthony Toop September 8, 2010 at 3:10pm

  a quick search found this image http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/paul1f/etes023.jpg
  
  Anthony Toop said:

  If i remember correctly, Paul, aka Proguard has some sort of coating painted on to his vans floor that is hard wearing and i guess waterproof!
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  Classic Gardens September 8, 2010 at 8:30pm

  Great thanks
  
  Are the sides of your van ply lined or have you just applied it to the metal.
  
  Also how many tins would you need approx.
  
  Thanks m8
  
  Pro Gard said:

  I have protektakote on the floor ply and the first 2" of the wall edge, it is absolutely brilliant and allows me to easily sweep the floor clean and to periodically be able to completely empty the van and hose off the floor.
  
  Colin is right regards the risk of condensation..... I have always taken up the ply then rolled on three coats of red oxide then ree layed the ply then protektacoted the ply. I would suggest you do likewise.
  
  The protektakote is dead easy to apply, it just rolls on, use a drill whisk to mix it and use the acelerant, I would suggest wearing a respirator as the fumes when applying it are awful.
  
  http://www.protectakote.co.uk/
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  Classic Gardens September 9, 2010 at 10:07am

  Sorry to be a pain m8
  
  Did you red oxide the sides of the van and how did you get round the anchor points on the floor of the van. 
  
  Cheers 
  
  Martin
  
  Pro Gard said:

  The sides are ply [IMG]http://i240.photobucket.com/albums/ff163/paul1f/van001.jpg[/IMG]Use masking tape to get the straight lines.
  
  4 litres did my swb, i rekon you would want an extra couple of litres for yours.
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  Classic Gardens January 7, 2011 at 4:31pm

  During the heavy snow we had in December i deicided to get the back of the Transit done as this carries the vast majority of grass in the spring/summer months, and grit during the winter.

   

  My main concern was that the ply flooring was not upto the job of protecting the van and upon removel it turned out to be true.

   

  Rust had started to set in around the tie down points and where the original ply had been screwed to the van floor.

   

  Hope this helps anyone:

   

  Removel of old ply which had been down a 1.5 yrs was starting to show signs of rust

  1st coat of red oxide not forgetting to go about 6inch around the sides

  It took 3 coats in total

  We then re plyed the back of the van the kit we used came with the tie down points already cut out so we covered these with ply and sealed them down

  Then we applied the protectakote, We bought the box set as this contained all we needed including the polypropylene foam rollers for easy application on corrugated load areas, This worked out cheaper than buying seperately. Three coats were needed, PLEASE GIVE A NIGHT TO DRY!Since this has been down we have power washed the back out and i can say it works a treat.

  Once again many thanks to pro gard for this.

   

  Time taken: 3 days

  Cost: £300

   

  Suppliers used

   

  Red oxide paint Two tins needed

  Protektakote One box needed for lwb med roof transit

  Van gadgets Great company to deal with couldnt be more helpful
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  Classic Gardens January 7, 2011 at 5:26pm

  Your right it was sparse to say the least.
  
  We have it waxy oiled once every two years it only costs around £40 bloody messy job though.
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  Daniel Gillings @ DC inc January 8, 2011 at 10:10am

  Where do you get this done?
  
  
  martin said:

  Your right it was sparse to say the least.
  
  We have it waxy oiled once every two years it only costs around £40 bloody messy job though.
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  Classic Gardens January 8, 2011 at 1:08pm

  Hi Daniel

  
  We do our own iam afraid as its that bad of a job we couldnt find anyone who could do it.

  We use Hmmerite waxoyl there is a few  other companies out there who make the stuff but there all the same really.

  We paint it on but it can be sprayed on you would just have to boil it first.  A 10 ltr tin of the clear stuff is enough to give our lwb transit a coat.

  Make sure loads of sheets go on the drive wear a hat goggles and tie the sleeves of your jumper up aswell because it gets everywhere lol.

  
  Daniel Gillings said:

  Where do you get this done?
  
  
  martin said:

  Your right it was sparse to say the least.
  
  We have it waxy oiled once every two years it only costs around £40 bloody messy job though.
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  Anthony Toop January 8, 2011 at 6:06pm

  Its the sort of job a run of the mill garage would'nt be interested in but the places that provide welding and restoration services for classics, old cars etc would be ideal as under sealing with Waxoyl would be second nature to them, they should be able to sort a van out quite easily. Just a matter of wether you have a suitable company near enough to make it cost effective.

  By the way just painting or spraying it on the surface is usually not sufficient enough in the long term, any box sections that make up the underside, double skin's on the inner wheel arches and the sills tend to rot from the inside out so the Waxoyl should really be sprayed into these areas as well for a thorough job.
  
  Daniel Gillings said:

  Where do you get this done?
  
  
  martin said:
  

  Your right it was sparse to say the least.
  
  We have it waxy oiled once every two years it only costs around £40 bloody messy job though.