A floor has many other critical functions than just supporting our feet.
How to laminate floors on a van.
Laminate floors with their floating installation procedures are one solution.
Overall this project was very easy.
We ultimately decided to use laminate flooring because it looks better than vinyl it s easy to.
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.
There are several options for van flooring.
So half the van was done with the laminate.
Many van dwellers choose vinyl flooring because it s thin and waterproof.
A floating floor requires no adhesives or fasteners and can shift with the constantly moving vehicle.
Installing the vinyl flooring so we cut our windows out carpet lined the walls and made the bed frame.
The next thing to do was to install the flooring.
The constantly shifting nature of rv frames and sub floors can be tough on traditional glue and nail down flooring.
I know a lot of diy conversions use laminate flooring but man that stuff is heavy and for fuel economy we don t want to be lugging the equivalent of 4 5 boxes of laminate flooring.
We decided to put laminate flooring in the front half of our van leaving the back half for the rough and tumble of cargo.
Floors are an important part of this.
And now is the time to install a floor in our van conversion.