Tent Floors

Tent floors come in a variety of styles and types.  The most common types of floors are lay-down flooring, raised tent flooring, and stick-built flooring.  Each has its own advantages and disadvantages.  Lay-down flooring follows the contours of the land.  If there is a slope or dips in the area being floored this floor will slope or dip along with the ground.  Lay-down flooring can still be saturated with rain and allow mud and water to seep through to the top of the surface.  Lay-down flooring is typically the cheapest option.  Raised tent floors (pictured above) that are pre-engineered  allow the user to eliminate any slope and dips in the ground providing the end user a completely level surface regardless of the surface below.  Raised floors are able to stay dry since they are elevated off the ground and allow water to run underneath without any water seeping up through the floor.  Raised floors are also the most expensive, but as with most things in life you get what you pay for.  Stick-built floors are floors built on site with plywood and stringers.  Stick built floors are a good solution when you want to eliminate the water seepage allowed by lay-down floors.  Stick-built floors are suitable for use when there is minimal slope to the ground and in areas of the country where labor costs are less expensive.  It is more time consuming to install a stick built floor than it is to install a pre-engineered raised floor system.  Give us a call 800-352-8368 or visit our website www.traubetent.com to learn more about our flooring options.