Lonseal Marine Flooring: Pros & Cons

Alright guys Lonseal, Loncoin. There's a lot of different derivatives out there, you know, first what is it right? It's a rolled shielded vinyl flooring that's used and there's other applications where you'll see it used on some of the different wall structures or whatever and some conversion vans. So, you know, we've got quite a few different options that are out there and I want to talk through some of the different uses the pros, the cons of that. We've historically had a couple different colors and material types here at Teak Isle and have used them both on the OEM side for different applications and then we sell some stuff on the retail side so talk about the different uses of it here for the retail side.

Yeah, for the retail side we use it in some you know, the bottom of some glove boxes as like a non-skid material to kind of help protect your phones wallets, keys and things going in and around sliding around banging around quite as much. It's just a little bit nicer than the Starboard. The Starboard, it is material that has to be glued down. So we do have to glue it down inside that glove box. But even in our own manufacturing warehouses, we use it for the workstations. A lot of the workstations have the Loncoin which is a specific type of the Lonseal that has a little bit more non-skid built into it. And that's at each workstation that we have across all of our facilities.

Awesome. Yeah, so we're using it also on the OEM side. In a lot of cases for flooring when we're building larger boats down below deck. We're building the actual flooring substrate and then putting that loncoin over there to go down into the boat.

Or maybe the marine and Holly Lonseal something along those lines that really matches with what ties in with what's going on the interior of the boat.

So in reality, you know it is basically a comparable alternative to your EVA PE blend, you don’t want to stick application like your see decks that are set out there or shot…

Or even if you do sheet laminate in your house is a similar example. If you going to do a sheet vinyl flooring. It's the same sort of thing can be used in your home where we are using it in the marine space and like you said the Van Conversion market is a big player in that.

Right so like you said a replacement for EVA foam but also like Faux Teak Decking.

Exactly we have the ones that taken hallway, we have mahogany, ambulances, like that ridged profile and the floor of an ambulance or the gangway going onto an airplane. That's all Lonseal.

Awesome. Yeah, so there's a ton of uses for it. And I think you're speaking about where we can compare it to some of those other alternatives right if the guy was going to go down and redo the floors in his pontoon and there's a couple different options we offer Lonseal loncoin of course, being one of them. You've got the Faux Teak Decking for EVA foam or alternatively Tough coat. So, in that case, let's make some pros and cons against this versus the other. What would you see maybe the pontoon application, the pro versus the con of using some of those other alternatives.

I mean, one of the major pros of this is you'll roll it out, you glue it down and you're pretty much done. Now, in the case of a pontoon, you're not really caring about your edge finish because you're going to have a frame going all the way around the pontoon but you're going to have furniture sitting on top right maybe you have one strip that you're going to put an edge finish on for free walk to the doors. Yeah, maybe one at the front, one at the back. It’s going to be a short amount of distance.

The same as for flooring in your house, right you transition from one side to the other. So, that is I would say, a con from a, if you look at it from a short deck or sundeck stands, peel and stick you lay it down it’s got the edge profile already beveled into it. You're rolling on and you don’t have to worry about anything.

Probably in terms of pontoon one of the carpeting would be a little better that we also have a felt backing on most of them that just doesn't have a substrate is like six metal sheet metal roll. So it's not uncomfortable.

It’s not as comfortable. Right that will definitely be a big difference between one or the other. Again, we're using it a lot of times in flooring on the OEM side for the boat builders’ interior, right that's another thing that we're talked through is about the different of versions.

We have a lot of different lines, some have a Tough coating, and some don't. So their indoor outdoor or some are strictly interior use only. So it just depends on which style you are looking at.

How do you know the difference between when its Tough coated or not?

It's just a little more shiny. It's like a urethane or some type of material seal over the top of it and we try to call out like it's a top sealed and I'm also the product pages we do say interior use only. And if you look at the application like installation guides will have an interior application or installation guide verses an outdoor marine use installation.

Really mixing is similar to most of the other materials that we're using. Here this as a sheet of material, which means we can throw it up on the router beds and cut different designs out of it right and the big play for that on the OEM side of course is the flooring kits. But, you know retail opens us up to other industries as well. And you look at the conversion vans that are just written in the market right now and our availability to work with somebody as a supplier to say okay, send us the rhino file or the CAD file of your floor, and we've got this material on hand and you just tell us how many you need that's as easy as them, getting it dropping it over the wheel wells, some adhesive on the bottom of it and they're good to go. And again, in the vans, we're seeing it being used also in a vertical application.

On an accent walls, some sort of decorative feature and then going back to the cutting point they we can cut like the steps, the inserts for the steps and then they are some profiles that come in the eight foot roll with that are designed to be used in the van market. So you could just get a length of that. Lay it down install it flat and then get those step profiles cut out custom from us.

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So the two different way we have eight forty six foot. Is that right?

So I think we want to do our job to our customers and kind of really talk through some of the cons as well we've talked some of the interior exterior and make sure if you're going to use the right one do we really feel good about the fact that it's going to hold up from an exterior standpoint as similar as a Tough Coat or woven fabric carpeting that we've got on there. Is it really primarily for interior applications? Would you say that kind of Triumphs over one or the other?

I think it depends I mean, if you're going to you have to do a trench around the edge in most cases, or you need to install it in some place that the edge is going to be covered up because it's going to be an unfinished edge. It's just a big rectangle that needs to either be seamed together and a larger piece or just finish off in some way but from a wear and tear I feel pretty comfortable saying no, it's a pretty long wearing long lasting product.

Awesome. Good stuff guys I appreciate it. Thank you