I'm opening a shop and I will be renting a building for my business. I have roughly 18 years of experience in construction/remoldeling and I'll be putting a new floor in the building. The room is 19' x 34'6". Cement is out of the question, cause it has a crawl space underneath. What would be sufficient enough to withstand the salting of hides and capes? I'm looking into a 3/4 in tongue n groove plywood. Would it be wise to put a commercial grade tile on the plywood, too? Thanks for your input and advice.
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Make it so you can fold it up or down when you didn't need it and make it so it would slant to the front so that you attach a catch for drain off. Pvc pipe cut in half to act like I gutter is what I have in mind when I move in a few weeks.
lean more towards some cheap linoleum for that final floor covering. No seams and no grout for that salt brine to soak into. Easy to mop and clean and easily replaced if the need arises. Like Joey says, if you can keep this process contained somewhat it might help but I find it is a pretty messy step and salt seems to get everywhere.
If I ever do a shop in my barn I'm placing a center drain and sloping the floors slightly for easy cleaning.
buy an auto tanner with the money you would spend on 3/4 ply, and lino? You can skip the salt altogether!
linoleum in my shop. I lay a sheet of plastic down underneath my salt area to help contain the mess that misses the bucket.
But not I'm in the process of building a seperate salt shed to get the mess and smell out. In there, I'm going to have a shelf set on a slope. It will slope from front to back and to one end with a piece of gutter attached to catch the run-off and direct it into a tub. BP