I am looking to put a flooring surface in my engine room.  I tried some

Any good ideas?   

               Henry

Hello all, I am looking to put a flooring surface in my engine room. I tried some "garage floor" foam squares but they tend to move about. I looked at Dri-Dek but after kneeling on it for 2 minutes, don't think it will work. So, I am asking the wisdom of T&T. The current floor is the fiberglass hull which has been painted. Any good ideas? Henry

Snip:'"... I am looking to put a flooring surface in my engine room. I tried some "garage floor" foam squares but they tend to move about..." Henry, I'm using the redish food prep antifatgue mats 3'X 3'pieces that anc snap together. It has the holes and is advertized resistant to oils from Sam's or Costco. No uv resistance but hey the sun never shines in my engine room. They migrate a little but don't slip under my feet and are soft to kneel on. Joe M/V "Carolyn Ann" GH N-37

  Any good ideas?

                 Henry

On 2/12/2011 11:37 PM, Henry J. Dennig wrote: <snip> > The current floor is the fiberglass hull > which has been painted. > > Any good ideas? > > Henry Our engine room floor as well as the lazarette and commissary floor all had lonfloor vinyl applied. The material in the engine room was getting pretty shabby, a friend of mine has access to cutoff pieces of lonfloor (by lonseal) in the silver diamond plate pattern, the OEM was coin. Other than the diamond plate being not as easy on the knees as the coin, it makes a good looking job, and the material is very heavy and durable. I have a few of the foam squares I use as pads where I need them. The lazarette piece is about 14' x 4' and was tedious to pattern, but that's the way to fit it. I used craft paper. I used vinyl adhesive to apply it, but if I had it to do again, I'd use contact cement in the engine room as the surface is not as flat and I ended up with some places where the flooring didn't bond. I prepped the floor surface with a Fein multimaster rasp tool, so no paint remained. I used silver silicone along the edges to seal. There are some areas where the silicone has pulled away from the painted surface, I believe I did not do a thorough enough degreasing prior to applying the silicone. Neither floor has marked nor gouged despite some very hard use. Heavy storage bins slid across the surface, dive tanks, etc. If you can find the material, it is an excellent application for hard use and harsh environment in an ER or as in our laz. -- Steve Sipe Solo 4303 /"Maerin"/ Miami Beach