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HobbsHauler's avatar
HobbsHauler
Explorer
Aug 07, 2015

Allure Ultra Flooring

We took the carpet out of our '07 Discovery and had the Allure Ultra floating floor installed. We had new carpet installed on the slides. The first time we picked up the coach, we were gone for a few weeks and the floor separated in the center of the coach and down the hall in a few places. We took the coach back to the shop and they did something to fix it, when we took it home it was beautiful.
We kept the coach home for a few weeks, no jacks down, and the floor stayed beautiful.
A few weeks ago, we took the coach out, and the next morning the floor separated again in about the same places.

There are quite a few people in this forum that have installed this floor and have no problems, we actually paid someone a lot of money to do the floor and it looks like junk.

When we have used our rig, we have been boondocking in the dirt. Do you think the jacks being on unlevel soft ground is "tweaking" the coach and making the floor separate?

Does anyone else have any ideas? Thanks!
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  • Sully2's avatar
    Sully2
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    Your substrate isnt any good.....too flimsy. You jack the coach and the floor buckles......dont jack the coach and the floor remains nice looking
  • turbojimmy's avatar
    turbojimmy
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    Bird Freak wrote:
    HobbsHauler wrote:
    Thank you for your responses.
    I know that the floor is screwed down along the slides, I don't know how it is under the trim moldings. It is going back into the shop and they are talking about glueing it down, I'm very leary of that idea because it is a floating floor.
    You answered your own question here. It is screwed along the sides. If it can't move along the sides it will in the middle. I don't think your installer knows what he is doing.


    Yep. I put Pergo Max in mine and it says to leave a 1/4" gap around all edges for expansion and contraction. If it is attached to the subfloor anywhere, it's going to find somewhere else to expand and contract which is what you are experiencing.
  • Bird_Freak's avatar
    Bird_Freak
    Explorer II
    Aug 08, 2015
    HobbsHauler wrote:
    Thank you for your responses.
    I know that the floor is screwed down along the slides, I don't know how it is under the trim moldings. It is going back into the shop and they are talking about glueing it down, I'm very leary of that idea because it is a floating floor.
    You answered your own question here. It is screwed along the sides. If it can't move along the sides it will in the middle. I don't think your installer knows what he is doing.
  • topflite51's avatar
    topflite51
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    wilanddij wrote:
    Its a floating floor. If its fastened down it will separate or buckle depending on temperature changes.
    This is correct.
  • HobbsHauler's avatar
    HobbsHauler
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    Thank you for your responses.
    I know that the floor is screwed down along the slides, I don't know how it is under the trim moldings. It is going back into the shop and they are talking about glueing it down, I'm very leary of that idea because it is a floating floor.
  • wilanddij's avatar
    wilanddij
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    Its a floating floor. If its fastened down it will separate or buckle depending on temperature changes.
  • tinkerer's avatar
    tinkerer
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    We also installed Allure Traffic master in our 2007 Discovery and so far so good. We installed it in fairly warm weather and I was told by another RV repair center (who use the Allure) that in cold weather it will separate a little, but in their experience it closes back up when the temperature increases. The Allure Altra is much thicker than the Allure Traffic master. Don't know if that makes any difference in the expansion and contraction.;)
  • erniee's avatar
    erniee
    Explorer
    Aug 08, 2015
    some folks have success with that stuff- but the odds are against you. I will never install it. my opinion of 43+ years in the business. Your quote" Looks like junk" is quite correct.
    temp change is a culprit.

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