Carpet replacement(s) - but with what??

Also installed Allure in main galley which includes full length slide.

Wonderful to clean as we have 5 mini dachshunds. Agree that you will be surprised at how much dirt is tracked in. We use regular floor cleaner and lightly steam clean it about 3x per year.

No separations between tiles, joints or corners. Great to move furniture around and doesn't scratch.

We installed it ourselves about 3 years ago.

Could also look at vinyl flooring. It is the only thing I would have in a "camper" For us. Carpet would be a deal breaker. The vinal is easy top install. You no longer need to glue it, and it is super easy to keep clean, just a broom, and sponge mop is all that is needed

boston blacky wrote:


I see where some do not recommend Alure Vinyl Plank, as it may come unglued in the cold/heat and I am also concerned about floor damage caused by the movement of our three slides!!

Use the interlocking type planks. It's VERY important to make sure you have an expansion gap all around and that the flooring is completely free floating so it does not get hung up on anything like table leg flanges, entry door sill, etc. You'll want to install a small baseboard strip everywhere to cover the perimeter exp. gap.

Despite the precautions and Allure's warning, many have used Allure or one of the other similar products with great success. I installed interlocking laminate planks made from ABS in a previous TT. My BIL who now owns it and lives in Vernon, BC (where there is a high temp. swing summer-winter) says that the laminate has held up great.

Summer to winter temp. extremes and the resulting expansion/contraction on flooring can damage floors. The prolonged cold temps. last winter caused the sheet flooring in many RVs to crack. In comparison to a floating laminate floor, sheet vinyl flooring can get hung up or pulled apart at stress points like openings for a floor register. I would say that a properly installed free floating vinyl laminate floor is less likely to be damaged from temp. extremes. than sheet flooring and is a good choice.

Not sure on the slide, but vinyl planks are quite thin at around 1/8". Slides run over sheet flooring in RVs all the time, but may depend on your particular slide mechanism?

We recently put Allure Traffic Master laminate in our living room. We are quite happy with how it looks - haven't had it long enough to comment on wear/use issues. I blogged it with lots of photos here.

Roy B is talking about self-adhesive carpet tiles, which are pretty common in commercial usage. They're readily available (both in commercial and lighter duty varieties) from many places; search for "carpet tiles".

A self-adhesive carpet tile is exactly what it sounds like: a square of carpet with a peel-and-stick back side.

I put laminate (fake wood) flooring in my bumper pull trailer. Mine was a click together and I didn't glue mine down. It is a floating floor so it isn't glued down or anything like that.

Here is a picture of it and the bathroom when all done.

I used Allure traffic master - it was a floating floor. Easy to install - looks great - been about 5 years with no problems. We found that using some area carpets on top of the Allure helped catch some of the stuff you would otherwise have to sweep up. You will be surprised on how much stuff you actually track into the rig after you switch from carpets.

I'm not exactly sure what Roy B. is saying. Can someone please help me understand what he's saying here. BB

I got to use those 2'x2' carpet squares from the office when they got replaced. I got GREEN and BLUE colors.

Put down the BLUE on the floors and the GREENS under my tent bed areas on my OFF-ROAD POPUP. Really helped with temperature control inside our trailer. Carpet squares still had their sticky stuff on them and they installed like a dream everywhere. Cut to fit...

We have vinyl floor originally.

I really created a mess however when camping in the woods... Not sure having carpet on the floors was a good idea. We are constantly tracking in dead leaves all the time hehe...

Roy Ken