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wrybread
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Jun 14, 2016

Pics of my new wood flooring

Finally installed some "wood" flooring in my Rv. I've always wanted to do this to an Rv, and it was surprisingly easy. No more heinous beige carpet everywhere, and infinitely easier to clean.

I used Allure flooring from Home Depot. It took 2.5 boxes at $50 each to do my whole 24' Class C. Took about 6 hours including tearing out the carpet.

Anyway, if you're considering doing this, go for it. Just go slow and start with the easy (straight) areas.

  • Alure looks good but.... We had Alure flooring that we put down in our home. We installed everything correctly. Rolled it with 100 pound rented roller. We let it sit in the room for a week prior to install. Everything was done by the book. After a few months it developed small bumps and the seams opened up so you could see grey seams through it. Ours was down for a year and we tore it up and put down Pergo. The only good thing I can say about our Alure floating floor is it comes up real easy and being a thin material, it only took one trip to the landfill.
    :(

    I saw Alure again when the wife and I went to someones home to look at their exercise bike they had on Craigslist. They had Alure in the basement and it looked like my stuff did. The seams had opened up and it was lumpy. Their floor had been down less than a year.

    Home depot gave us our money back on the floor but since we didn't have Home Depot do the install, we ate the cost of the $3000 install. They called ours a "bad batch".

    I've read on here that many people use Alure but I wouldn't use it again. The temperature swings in a RV are far greater than they were in my home. My experience with Alure flooring was not good.

    I hope you don't have the problems with it that we did.
  • I love the Alure flooring. Looks good in the camper, I installed mine in the basement under a slate pool table.
  • very nice job! I hate the carpet, especially when we have the Grands for the summer.