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Houseboat floats product card

Houseboat floats product card

Houseboat floats product card

Product catalog summary
1. Selecting the Correct Product for Your Houseboat
There are four families of houseboat floats: W800, W900, W1200, and W1200S, each offering different widths and carrying capacities. Selection depends on the total weight of the houseboat, which should be more than 70% of the float's carrying capacity. Alternatively, dimensions and weight can be provided for calculation assistance. Each family includes Front, Middle, and Back floats, with options for Speed Front floats that offer less water resistance but lower capacity.

1.1. Floats for Storage
Options include empty floats with thicker walls, floats with built-in tanks for liquid or diesel storage, and floats with built-in boxes for machinery. Floats can also be equipped with thruster pipes, available in different diameters.

2. Product Characteristics
Floats are made from 9mm Polyethylene and filled with 19 kg/m2 EPS. They are winter-ready, resistant to deformation, and unsinkable even if punctured. Houseboats using these floats can be certified for Category D.

2.1. Features of W800
The W800 features horizontal plates for easy wood platform connection.

2.2. Features of W900/W1200S
These models include side molding for scratch protection and features like Kiel and Redans for stability. The W1200S is exclusively sold by UHP.

3. Connection
Floats are embraced by the steel platform without bolts, preventing horizontal movement. The platform connects to the underwater structure to prevent vertical and forward movements.

4. Steel Platform
Standard catamaran platforms are available, produced in parts for easy transport. Custom platforms can be ordered, and additional services include steel subframes for custom platform connections.

5. Transportation
For efficient transport, steel platform parts are placed at the bottom of the truck with floats on top. Floats can be pre-connected to platform parts for easier assembly upon delivery.
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1. Select correct product for your Houseboat For the moment we have 4 families of houseboat floats (W800, W900, W1200, W1200S). They have different width, so provide different carrying capacity. To select proper family, you need to check: *weight of your houseboat (including: people, furniture, steel platform and floats)*> 70%*of carrying capacity of floats*. Alternatively, you can provide us dimensions of your houseboat and houseboat weight and we will do calculation for you. Each family consists of Front, Middle and Back float: W800, W900 and W1200S families have usual Front and Speed Front. Speed Front provides less water resistance, but has less carrying capacity. Speed front floats have double length (2.4m) and hence cost double price. QTY of floats in Catamaran platform=*Houseboat Length*/1,2 x 2. Unlike pontoon floats, houseboat floats can not have gaps between floats. So your houseboat platform will consist of 2 (or 3) rows of floats, each row having 1 front float, several middle floats and 1 back float: Liquid storage: o Option 1: All our floats can be produced empty inside, with thicker walls. (Empty floats have Thick at the end of model name, for example W 900 Middle Thick) o Option 2: There are models of floats with built in Tank (Advantages compared to empty floats: foam insulation provides warmer liquid, sometimes empty float has too big volume). Tank does not have lid, but customer can afterwards attach lid and piping to the top of the float, using screws. Diesel storage: Floats with built in Tank can be produced for diesel storage (tank is produced from special PE) Machinery storage: There are models of floats with built in Box. Box, compared to Tank, has big l

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Floats for thruster: Float consists of Box and thruster pipe. We can install thruster pipe in all floats with Boxes: Front, Middle and Back. As standard we install thruster pipe 197mm, but 155mm is also available. Note, that inner dia of thruster pipe should be always bigger than propeller dia. Float with Tank 2. Product characteristics ✓ Material: 9mm PE (Polyethylene) ✓ Filling inside: 19 kg/m2EPS (Polystyrene) ✓ Winter ready: Float maintains it`s shape and is resistant to mechanical deformations, incl. ice pressure ✓ Float will not sink in case of hole ✓ Houseboats on our floats can be certified...

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Picture: W 1200 Middle floats in a row, view from Top. Picture: platform embracing W800,view from Back To prevent vertical and horizontal (forward) movements, platform is connected to the underwater structure. All floats have the same connection principle, only difference: in W900/W1200S there is no underwater beam, only plate. Platform connection with W 1200/ W800 Platform connection with W 1200 S/ W900 4. Steel platform We have catalogue of Standard catamaran platforms. To fit regular transport, platforms are produced in 2 parts (3 parts for platforms wider than 5m) and have general design...

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5. Transportation To optimize space, we put steel platform parts on bottom of the truck and than floats on top (nonpalletized). Per request, we can connect floats to parts of steel platform and load it on the truck, so that customer only needs to connect left and right parts of platform.

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*Prices are pre-tax. They exclude delivery charges and customs duties and do not include additional charges for installation or activation options. Prices are indicative only and may vary by country, with changes to the cost of raw materials and exchange rates.