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Old 10-01-2018, 08:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Oldboat View Post
I’m not to worried about it .
Yeah I wouldn't be either. Here is a guy who submerged a scrap piece of Coosa for 5 years. Not a very scientific test, just soaking a scrap piece in tap water, but still has some merit for absorption rates. To quote someone from that thread:

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Originally Posted by midcap
3/4" 26 coosa is 52 lbs a sheet normal transom uses two sheets, so 104lbs, let's say that transom is 80% of those sheets. 82lbs.

Soaking the complete sheet then would add 7lbs. That's not even one gallon of water.
Personally I would have put a layer of 1708 on the bottom, but only because it would nag at me that I had a chance to over engineer something and didn't. But, that floor is definitely going to outlast all of us, looking great!
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