Dave,
Wow, interesting! The floor won't rot. The exposed floor could be covered
with a super quality material like marine plywood to eliminate the problems
you describe. It would add little weight. A pre-covering could stop the
sweating. I like the idea of a floor that cannot rot.
-Eddie- Houston, Texas
> I have an advertising brochure for my '78 argosy that touts it's light
> weight and thus saves gas while towing and can be towed with smaller cars.
>
> My Argosy has one of the test features that was not adopted by Airstream.
> The floor is aluminum. Actually it is two aluminum plates with 1" of
> Styrofoam sandwiched between them. This turned out to be not such a great
> idea. The floor sags a bit and flexes when you walk on it. It can also sweat
> at times. You also have 1" "ribs" that cover the joints between the floor
> plates so the floor isn't smooth and limits floor covering options.
>
> Dave