How To Put Wood Floor In Van

Our neighbor offered us some old hardwood flooring but the thickness would have taken too much height out of the van.

How to put wood floor in van.

Jules was lukewarm on this idea because of the limited selection of colors tones and mostly went along with it until the flooring experts we talked to all thought it probably wasn t the right material for a van. Make sure to use anti rust screws and countersink them into the wood. Indeed a proper floor installation prevents water infiltration rust provides thermal and noise insulation and serves as anchor for the cabinets in addition it should be resistant to wear be able to withstand enough weight not produce any squeak and. Most lighter materials should be applied wall to wall throughout the van with the cabinets installed on top.

Lastly install any transition or threshold pieces. Now you can install whatever baseboard or shoe moulding you choose and you are finished with this project. Many van dwellers choose vinyl flooring because it s thin and waterproof. Hardwood luxurious yet laborious and fairly expensive.

Be sure to subscribe to see our new videos. We ultimately decided to use laminate flooring because it looks better than vinyl it s easy to install and it s thinner than hardwood. We put all four sheets down using the 8 side as the width making sure that everything was flush. It s eco friendly is hard as nails and looks really nice.

I was still able to see the grooves of the van s floor at the very back and very front of the van. How i installed my laminate wood floors in my full time camper van. The flooring on a passenger van will be a slightly different because there are rails on the ground from where seats used to be. At the beginning richmond really wanted to install bamboo flooring.

These may be additional items you need to purchase as part of your flooring order. We placed the rubber mat on top of the plywood surface made sure it wasn t going to move and then traced the footprint. This makes for an easier and more professional looking installation. Here is a great video explaining how to install a stock floor to adjust for the rails along with the installation of a vinyl floor.

Ceramic tile great material but too heavy for use in an rv. And now is the time to install a floor in our van conversion. I used a chalk line to mark where the cargo van s floor grooves are and then only drilled where the grooves were raised. But overall it will be a similar floor build as any other van.

A floor has many other critical functions than just supporting our feet.