No water drainage in sled trailer. Solutions???

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So last fall I bought a Neo NMS 26' trailer. It came with insulated walls and I had floor spray foamed. Really quite a nice unit. However, when I come out to the trailer in the morning after 5 sleds have dried off its a swimming pool. The door sills are all iced up so i have to chip that away so doors will close properly. Major pain in the ass to drain water out. Otherwise it's a complete skating rink. I have the trailer at the dealer for other reasons and I've emailed Neo to see what they will do for me. If nothing, what fixes can I do myself? Thanks
 

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Reefer trailers have holes in the floor to drain water out. Maybe drill a 1/2 or 5/8 hole in the floor and stick a piece of tubing in the floor to prevent water entrainment between the floor panels and seal it?
 

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Could screw and silicone a strip of aluminium across the floor. something like this: 71pKTJuD0xL._SL1455_.jpg Either at the front or rear door or both. Whatever way the trailer floor slopes too.
Then you can put in a drain, like for a bath tub like: push-pull-tub-closure.jpg OR tub-drain-kit-518.jpg . and would allow you to open and close it. This would be cheap and easy to do.

The slightly raised aluminium strip will act like a dam. channeling the melting water away from the door seal and into the floor drain.
 

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Could screw and silicone a strip of aluminium across the floor. something like this:View attachment 205718 Either at the front or rear door or both. Whatever way the trailer floor slopes too.
Then you can put in a drain, like for a bath tub like:View attachment 205716 OR View attachment 205717. and would allow you to open and close it. This would be cheap and easy to do.

The slightly raised aluminium strip will act like a dam. channeling the melting water away from the door seal and into the floor drain.

your assuming the trailer is park level every time it is used.
 

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Yeah i thought about drilling holes and putting in a drain of sorts. Just not sure how to best secure it into the nudo/plywood flooring so that it would take the test of time.
 

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What about laying a wood. metal, rubber strip a few inches in front of back door. Seal it to the floor and walls so the water cannot make it to the door. Then as suggested above drill a few holes and insert some tubing for drainage..
 

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In a buddies trailer we built a heavier eavestrough with a lip (Think of a channel with flatbar welded on the legs). Mounted it to the bottom of the floor. The section of floor we cut out, we trimmed it loose and put it back in the hole we cut out where it sat on the lip so skis, etc could go back over without issue. It had enough slop that water drained into the eavestrough and drained out. Simple and worked pretty well.
 

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there's another thread somewhere here on the site about this topic, I just can't find it today.
 

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If you're serious about it, a trough drain, or 3 or 4 round boat drains (in the corners) with small pipe stubs hanging down and backwards should work well. The boat drains would be a lot less work.


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