Home Depot Allure vinyl floor

wiredgeorge wrote:

Johno02 wrote:
We redid our class A with Allure flooring, and had no problems. Just do not glue or staple it, as it needs to expand and contract some with the weather.

Has your RV sat in temps lower than 55 degrees and higher than 85 degrees when not in use? I am thankful that folks have chosen to answer and supply their opinions but I was really looking forward to hearing from someone who has actually used the stuff. I did read the manufacturer's warning about voiding the warranty if temps were out of range but not sure that I care about the warranty all that much. thanks wg

I operated a flooring installation company for about six years. Let me simplify this for you: Don't trust the adhesive on any flooring product.

Allure comes in two varieties: The edge adhesive version (Traffic master) and Allure Isocore. There may also be Allure Ultra in your area, both of these latter are a click-lock joint. The click-lock joint will be more durable and will separate less than the adhesive strip. Installation ease is a non-issue, both are easy to install.

Let me make a case against Allure since I researched it for my own trailer: When this product was first introduced about 8-10 yrs ago, there were reports of owners , their kids, and pets having bad reactions to offgassing of the material. Since most Allure was sold through Home Depot, the bad flooring was returned for a cash refund, easily, and just some grumbling occured. It was found that Allure was being made in Indonesia and was made from 25% recyclable material (maybe more). Allure saved the brand by limiting the content to 15% recyclables and cleaned up the Indonesia operation. Your guess as to how their vinyl is still being made.

What I did for my travel trailer: Bought one of the cheaper vinyl laminated composite planks from Lumber Liquidators, on sale. It is 8MM thick, IIRC. Used a very high grade underlayment underneath the plank.
It took me a day to install the flooring, my layout is fairly straight and square. The flooring looks like the day I installed it, six years ago.

About perimeter clearances. I've installed a lot of floating floors and the 1/4" rule can be lessened in most cases. I installed a composite plank in my Sister's house, two blocks off the ocean. It is wearing well.