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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