How To Repair Shipping Container Floor Damage - Quick and Easy Solution | The Container Guy
Do you have a damaged floor in your shipping container? Do you want to learn how to repair floor damage in a container? Stay tuned, because The Container Guy will show you the quickest and easiest way to fix it.
The three most common types of flooring in shipping containers are Teak, Bamboo and Polyurethane Bamboo flooring. Most floor damage is caused after the floor gets wet or moist. Recommended limits for forklift trucks on wooden container floors:
Item: Limit:
Front axle load (forklift truck plus cargo) max. 5.460kg
Contact per area per time min. 142 cm²
Width of tire min. 180mm
Wheel spacing (on one axle) min. 760mm
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Hi, I'm Channing McCorriston, The Container Guy
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today we're going to be looking at
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container floor damage and a quick and
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easy repair solution
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after landing a deal on national
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television in 2011
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where his team pitched their idea of
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modifying shipping containers
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he went on to start his own business
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since then
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he's completed thousands of container
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modifications for clients in every major
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industry
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now he wants to teach you everything he
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knows about container modifications
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and accessories channing mccorrison is
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the container guy
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we're inside of a 20-foot used shipping
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container
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the used containers are often the ones
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that are damaged you can take a look
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down here
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and see a forklift tire has actually
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pushed the container flooring down
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between
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the cross members and yeah it sagged the
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floor
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this is a common problem this happens
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often in used containers
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the reasoning for it is that the floor
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could have got moist or wet or
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potentially something inside the
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container has spilled or it's been
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sitting on
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soft soggy ground and the plywood floor
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has whipped
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moisture up it and then once a forklift
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comes in here
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there's not a lot of footprint for the
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forklift tire
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and see if it's lifting a full pallet of
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cargo
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or freight then yeah once it gets in
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between these
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two cross members which will be here and
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here
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it can the weight of the tire will
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actually compress
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and break the plywood or the teak
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flooring so
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we have a solution to repair this uh
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quick and easy one not to iicl standards
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the proper way to repair this to iicl
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specs so this container
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is again cargo worthy would be to remove
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this wooden panel and replace it with a
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brand new
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panel section that's very expensive
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this plywood flooring is crazy expensive
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especially
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right now the best way to do this to get
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it to a wind and water tight
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standard where it's great for portable
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storage
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is just to cap this with a steel plate
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and you have a nice smooth floor here um
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only 12 gauge so not a tripping hazard
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and
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yeah if even if there was a hole here so
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sometimes it'll punch right through
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and rodents or whatever could get
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through there the only difference
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between putting the steel patch the way
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we're going to do it and then
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is just make sure that you would caulk
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or silicone all around the perimeter
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get it back up so that rodents and
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insects don't have an easy access
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into your container yeah basically
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save the expense of trying to locate for
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one
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or pay for this expensive shipping
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container flooring
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for quick reference i'm just going to
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show you two other containers that have
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had
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floor repairs on them so in this
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container it's a used 20
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the floor was completely ruined on it we
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had to replace all of the floorboards
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with
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brand new container flooring so here
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yeah this is a huge job something you
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don't necessarily want to take on
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on your own these floor boards are
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are extremely expensive per section
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and yeah just it's a ton of work even
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just removing the old floor a lot of
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times the screw heads
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are stripped so you know if there's a
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few damaged areas using the patches is
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often
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a nice way to do it and it's a simple
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way to do it
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so here we have the other container with
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the damaged flooring
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we're about to do a repair on here we
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haven't yet i didn't realize but we
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actually also cut some 4x4
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sheets so that's a nice patch to cover
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the area i'll just pull these out of the
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way
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just some small damage in the corner
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there and then this uh this
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i guess the screws the heads have broke
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off there so it's just
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spongy so we can still tap or back into
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the channel here
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but we'll also carry this floor plate
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right over so it helps
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span from one sheet of plywood to the
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other
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here's where the main problem is as you
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can see forklift going through here
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between each channel it keeps
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compressing
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the plywood to get a good look at kind
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of what the makeup
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of this this wood is yeah it's that
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inch and an eighth nineteen ply uh quite
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damaged here so
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this would be a big job i mean it kind
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of justifies we could throw an
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entire wood panel in here but again
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as long as we get this nice and level
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and throw the steel sheet over there
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it will work it will be wind and water
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tight as long as it's communicated with
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the customer that this is the repair and
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this is how it's done we can show them
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pictures before and
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after this is an acceptable way of
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repairing this container
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for good measure while we're walking
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around the yard i figured i'd better
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show you what the other types of
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flooring look like
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this here is the bamboo flooring but
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it's not the polyurethane coated bamboo
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so this is the eco option it's great for
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one-time use containers where the
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purpose of them after their
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maiden voyage is to be put
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to use as storage so yeah this is a
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great flooring it's a cheaper option
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a little more environmentally friendly
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we'll jump in one more container and
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show you what the polyurethane coated
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bamboo looks like
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so lastly here we're in one of our tcgu
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it's a container guy unit
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we've ordered this direct from china
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from the factory
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we really like this flooring especially
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for our rental fleet in case there's an
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oil spill or something it's really easy
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to clean so
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this here is the polyurethane coated eco
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bamboo
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flooring so we'll head back over to the
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first container that we're in and get
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into the
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quick and easy repair so here we have
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our container patches we've just created
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in autocad a few different
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designs basically a one by one one by
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two
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two by two and two by four floor patch
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we use 12 gauge galvanized steel
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and we just laser cut holes to
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accommodate for
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our screws so that we don't have to be
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drilling constantly so
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just some generic sizes we don't
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actively market these
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but if there is interest check out our
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website tcg.ca send us a message
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we can always sell some on this it's
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pretty easy to wrap in cardboard and
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ship
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so here's a panel i'll show you another
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area
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we won't be fixing this but another
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problem with containers is often
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it's a 19 ply teak flooring in here
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and a lot of times the first or second
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ply or layer
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of that plywood will delaminate so here
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we have a delaminated section
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it's really not that bad yet this should
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work
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for storage standards but
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you know here would be a patch say there
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was a hole there one of these patches
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here we can
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self-tapping screw into the steel beam
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and then
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just use our number eight wood screws
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all the way around
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and yeah that would hide that area
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so here at the front of the container
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we'll use the largest piece
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we'll cover the entire solar panel
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section just to make sure that the steel
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uh goes right from one of the steel
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beams to the other it'll
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help distribute the weight this is 12
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gauge it's pretty thick
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it's not a quarter inch or nothing but
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uh because it has the plywood underneath
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it yet it should
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withstand it'll withstand any kind of
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atv it'll still withstand
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light vehicles probably even trucks
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usually your tires are wider than this
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anyway where it is but yeah it can
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withstand still
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lots of weight maybe just as much as as
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stock but because this isn't a
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cargo worthy repair or iicl
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then i would advise against doing this
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for any ocean-going freight that would
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be going inside this container so we
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have two different types of screws here
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we have our self-tapping screws which
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will be going through the steel
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and then we just have our regular wafer
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head wood screw these will just be going
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through the wood floor
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they grab real nice they got a nice big
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head to help
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act as a washer to hold the plate down
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so yeah just a phillips head
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pretty simple got one started here
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that would have been harder if the hole
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wasn't pre-drilled but just keep
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stick with it yeah your self-tappers
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all the way down through the steel
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and then your number eight wood screws
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in all the center sets
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so often you don't get lucky and line up
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exactly where these
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steel runners are some container floors
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don't actually have that at all it's
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just a
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whole sheets of plywood on the inside so
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you'd just be using
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your wood thread another thing about
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container flooring is that this here is
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the
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teak flory it's the older version and
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still actively used today most shipping
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lines and leasing companies use this
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it's the teak flooring something spills
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on it it's a porous flooring
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and it can soak right in and potentially
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that's the reason why this
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exact flooring had an issue something
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spilled soaked in and weakened
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the layers of the plywood so here it is
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we just finished screwing in the panel
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this was our largest one wasn't too bad
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all in all
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and now we have a nice durable rigid ash
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over top of that existing floor damage i
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mean this is solid here so
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yeah that's going to handle anything
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your average farmer is going to throw at
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it
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so there you have it if you have a
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damaged container floor i hope this
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How To Repair Shipping Container Floor Damage - Quick and Easy Solution
