My HR 40PBT Laminate Floor Installation

Jimmyzw22 · 02-13-2010, 09:29 PM

I have done my research about what to do with the Holiday Rambler slide rollers in the floor and Laminate flooring. I now have a plan for the slide. But anyways here is our progress on the laminate flooring install on our new to us HR 40PBT 3 slide. I have learned one thing though, the house portion of the RV is not built with a lot of attention to detail. I have everything ripped out even pulled the steel under the steps off and re-attached all of the wood and metal. The bedroom bed and slide wow, I was saying to my wife that I would be mad as heck if I paid 200k for this and found it to built with so little care. Not that it is junk but just not put together that well. I have been a mechanic most of my life and will definitely be making everything perfect when it goes back together. My wife and I are having a blast redoing everything. We recently built our own house and needed a project. Anyways enough rambling, here are the pictures.

Jim and Theresa

powerboatr · 02-13-2010, 09:37 PM

i did my fiver with the allure and my slides were FLUSH slides....
however as you will and have probably learned the slides are not flush with the coach floor
i made a trim piece of wood to cover the slide to main room interface and never had any issues of the allure getting squashed or damaged

Jimmyzw22 · 02-14-2010, 10:20 AM

My only concern was that the slide touches the floor in the middle of the slide and scratches it. Does your have rollers on the sides in the floor? My open gap without wood is much larger than your was. I am going to cover it with a 1/2 inch piece of plywood and extend it over the opening and rollers. Did you glue any of your laminate at all? It says it is glueless but I have read different things about installing that say to glue in some areas.

Your fiver looks great!

Jim

Patriciag · 02-15-2010, 08:37 PM

We just pulled the carpet out of ours today. We ordered the Allure (tile look) and it will be a week or so before we get it. We are leaving carpet in the front where the driver and passenger sit, and on the slide. We are trying to leave the laminate floor in the kitchen area and transition to the Allure. Trying to find like sixpack98's. What we found on our subfloor are bolt heads that sit above the subfloor about 1/8th of an inch. So we think we will have to lay down another layer to even the floor up. Anyone else have bolts on their subfloor?

Jimmyzw22 · 02-16-2010, 11:26 AM

My subfloor had bolts but they were countersunk down below the floor top. I removed the tile to the bathroom area because it went under all of the walls. So I cut it and removed from the kitchen area. Luckily the tile board was only stapled in so I was able to pull it out in two pieces. We have the front wood done as of last night and I will post some new pictures later today. I have found that all manufactureres do everything differently.

Jimmyzw22 · 02-16-2010, 06:15 PM

Here is where I am at as of last night! My knees and back are killing me but man does it look good. Also here are the reasons we are doing this, my Pooters, that is what we call our Boston's (pootors)

Jim

itdave · 02-17-2010, 05:47 PM

Great job

nodine · 02-18-2010, 04:44 AM

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Originally Posted by itdave

Great job

... and cute dogs.

Bob

Ernie Ekberg · 02-18-2010, 07:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Patriciag

We just pulled the carpet out of ours today. We ordered the Allure (tile look) and it will be a week or so before we get it. We are leaving carpet in the front where the driver and passenger sit, and on the slide. We are trying to leave the laminate floor in the kitchen area and transition to the Allure. Trying to find like sixpack98's. What we found on our subfloor are bolt heads that sit above the subfloor about 1/8th of an inch. So we think we will have to lay down another layer to even the floor up. Anyone else have bolts on their subfloor?

You can make a small indentation to have your floor accept the heads of the bolts.

krnlueck · 02-18-2010, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Jimmyzw22

Here is where I am at as of last night! My knees and back are killing me but man does it look good. Also here are the reasons we are doing this, my Pooters, that is what we call our Boston's (pootors)

Jim

And your "Pooters" are VERY cute! The floor turned out very nice too.

Jimmyzw22 · 02-21-2010, 10:59 PM

Here is where I am at as of this weekend. Finished the bedroom. Getting there.
Jim

thewildthang · 02-25-2010, 06:24 AM

Appears that you have some type of underlayment prior to the flooring? I assume that it is for additional noise reduction, what did you use, where do I get it and how expensive was it? (if I may ask)

Thanks,
Pete

Jimmyzw22 · 02-25-2010, 01:33 PM

It is a rubber with plastic underlayment. Pretty standard stuff, got it at flooring liquidators. About 25.00 a roll and it took two rolls to do the entire MH. They have four or five different kinds this one gave me the moisture barrier and sound barrier in one.