Laminate floor in 5th wheel

dtappy3353 wrote:
We had the same dilemma. Vinyl vs. Laminate.

Went with laminate so we could replace sections should anything happen. We bought enough for spares.

Vinyl is not a floating floor....our laminate is.

IMHO, laminate gives our fiver a real nice look and soooooo easy to clean.

We installed the flooring ourselves after watching a number of Youtube videos.

Best of luck!

dt

LVT "Luxury Vinyl Tile" is a much better choice than laminate. It comes in many sizes and colors/patterns and textures. Bad tile peel one up. Ever tried to replace a laminate board in the middle of the floor?

We are in the process of replacing the vinyl and carpet in our 5th wheel. We are using the vinyl click lock flooring from Home Depot.

Allure Vinyl Plank

This is a floating floor with no glue.

We have Pergo laminate in our brick and stick home and I can tell you when it gets wet it swells and buckles and will need to be replaced.

Good luck with your project!

Dave

dtappy3353 wrote:
We had the same dilemma. Vinyl vs. Laminate.

Went with laminate so we could replace sections should anything happen. We bought enough for spares.

Vinyl is not a floating floor....our laminate is.

Actually there are many 100% vinyl planks available, all are compatible with wet locations. The majority are floating with click and lock installation. They also are less sensitive to temperature variation, laminate flooring generally requires a 1/2 inch gap
, vinyl only needs 1/4 inch over distances of 70 ft. In small areas like an RV, 1/8 inch gaps work fine and rather than bulky quarter round trim, the small gap can simply be filled with a matching color caulk. This has the advantage of water proofing the edges.

My number 1 suggestion use at least 5mm thick planks (laminate or vinyl), the tongue and groove are more robust to withstand the flexing of an RV.

I removed the carpet and vinyl in our fifthwheel replaced with Stainmaster click and lock floating plank. We full-time and its looking good after a year with a 70lb dog.

We used the floating vinyl plank floor, great in wet areas and far more flexible than laminate flooring.

See link below for a sample install;
https://youtu.be/6u8B_xE9ZVo

If you go with laminate, be sure to get the click together type not the type (Allure) that has adhesive strips to bond the sections together. The adhesive gives some and the seams will become more apparent, and if it gets too hot inside your unit, the adhesive will come loose. I have Allure in a park model trailer in Florida and even though I keep the air conditioner on all summer, when we are gone, the adhesive has pulled loos in a couple of areas.

I put a self adhesive vinyl in the 5th and a floating laminate in the sticks and bricks kitchen. We really like the laminate and when it is time to replace the vinyl in the 5th it will be floating laminate.

We had the same dilemma. Vinyl vs. Laminate.

Went with laminate so we could replace sections should anything happen. We bought enough for spares.

Vinyl is not a floating floor....our laminate is.

IMHO, laminate gives our fiver a real nice look and soooooo easy to clean.

We installed the flooring ourselves after watching a number of Youtube videos.

Best of luck!

dt

Perhaps there'd be a gap, but that would be a question for the installer after they actually see your rig, since we can't. I'm sure there's a way they could eliminate the gap. I just think laminate wouldn't be that functional long term.

So with vinyl is there a gap between the floor and the slides??