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britcardoc · 01-17-2019, 11:51 PM

New to RVing. The carpet must go. Have just bought a small class A. Want wood or wood look floor. Floating or glue down? What kind? Price a consideration but not a panic. I have a wealth of skills and tools. I just only put down one floating floor for a friend a year ago so kinda new to flooring. Floor under carpet is solid, no leaks. What works best in RV? Less than 100 square feet, Thanks in advance.

cycle61 · 01-18-2019, 12:19 AM

Look up Luxury Vinyl Plank, or LVP. There's some amazing stuff out there that's waterproof, flexible enough for MH installation, and indistinguishable from wood. High end homebuilders and remodelers are using it now.

Wroughtnharv · 01-18-2019, 07:31 AM

Allure at Home Depot is popular with RV’rs. We used it and are happy with it. Easy install and it has a history of being durable. It’s vinyl and we’ve used it on our motorhome but our first experience with is was with a fifth wheel before the motorhome.

britcardoc · 01-18-2019, 07:18 PM

is Allure a floating floor? Do you anchor it on one side? I have no slide outs.

veraken · 01-19-2019, 06:17 AM

I recently replaced all of my carpeting with hand scraped engineered hardwood flooring. With the hand scraped, you can easily repair any nicks, etc. and it blends in. We glued the flooring down. One thing I learned in doing this is that because of the confined space, it is much easier to back butter each piece rather than spread the glue across the floor. The expert on flooring is Ernie Ekberg and if you have any questions he is very helpful. You can contact him and look at some pictures at:

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/...andrepair/info

WileyOne · 01-19-2019, 08:17 AM

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Originally Posted by cycle61

Look up Luxury Vinyl Plank, or LVP. There's some amazing stuff out there that's waterproof, flexible enough for MH installation, and indistinguishable from wood.

Allow me to second that suggestion. LVP is cheap -- under $2 per sq ft. I did my whole 1200 foot basement. Glued it directly to the concrete -- no prep and no sub-floor. Lightweight, easy to clean. And, the glue never dries. If a piece is damaged, you just peel it up and lay a new one.

One small piece of advice: since LVP uses a picture of a piece of wood, there is a pattern repetition. Make sure your installer mixes them up well so you don't have the same knot-hole appearing three times in a row on adjacent planks.

https://www.lowes.com/search?searchTerm=lvp

HoneyBadger · 01-20-2019, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by britcardoc

New to RVing. The carpet must go. Have just bought a small class A. Want wood or wood look floor. Floating or glue down? What kind? Price a consideration but not a panic. I have a wealth of skills and tools. I just only put down one floating floor for a friend a year ago so kinda new to flooring. Floor under carpet is solid, no leaks. What works best in RV? Less than 100 square feet, Thanks in advance.

We used a "click-lock" vinyl plank flooring on our old Southwind. No gluing, each plank locks in all 4 sides, cut it with a razor knife. Easy to install yourself.

Loved it; completely waterproof and looked stunning. Just something off the shelf at Lowe's, if I recall correctly.

iamcaper · 03-07-2019, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by cycle61

Look up Luxury Vinyl Plank, or LVP. There's some amazing stuff out there that's waterproof, flexible enough for MH installation, and indistinguishable from wood. High end homebuilders and remodelers are using it now.

absolutely right,used it on my last project and using it again on current project!

RVPioneer · 03-07-2019, 11:07 AM

We’re replacing the carpet in the coach with cork flooring later this year. We installed cork over a cement slab bonus rooom in the house that leads to an outdoor cooking and dining area 8 years ago, and it still looks new. The cork in the house is on a thin felt and plastic underlayment and the “tiles” snap together.

otrt · 03-08-2019, 09:39 AM

Oh great, youve just given me something to add to my loooong todo list. Wonderful idea!

Sweetbriar · 03-08-2019, 10:10 AM

I just finishing installing 4mm vinyl 12" x 24" click lock floating floor. Did not go with a wood look but more of a light colored stone with no grout lines. Went down very easy with little waste. Easy to cut by either scoring and snapping or cutting with a hand saw. Was $1.68 a sq ft at Floors and Decor. The pics are before I added shoe molding along the edges. Cutting all the molding was almost as much work as installing the vinyl.

IBTripping · 03-08-2019, 10:52 PM

Looks Great!!!

oldsman41 · 03-13-2019, 04:20 PM

Vinyl Plank works well i put it down a few years ago and still looks very nice. You can get it from fairly cheap to high end but in a small rv i would go the more expensive stuff. I went in my fix up book and i paid 1.98 sq ft 4 years ago. Lowes

Brecklundin · 03-26-2019, 10:09 PM

Two cents here....I suggest LifeProof brand LVP at Home Depot. It's a bit more than the Allure but I go it the sense it's a better product than Allue line of LVP.

Honestly I don't know which is best. I just found the style I liked and bought the 6 boxes my RV needs. Hot it a whole 20¢ a sq. ft. Off at $2.79/sf.

It is thicker and I liked one if the variable length plank models. It's a click lock and all of them are floating.

I saw some really nice wood engineered pecan on clearance but, thankfully, there wasn't enough or I would have been so tempted at $2/sf for Pergo. Then all the other factors came to mind like expansion, warping, liner, underlayment...etc...and I totally better from that brief bout if it.

I'll probably be installing mine in a couple weeks after I get chassis stuff done and a wash, seal & polish....that I just don't want to do!