Floor Covering

Spent the day yesterday ripping out carpet in the coach....gotta say, it's a bit more of a job that I expected. First, removal of all the furniture....dinette/bench seat set, driver's and passenger's seats, sofa, recliner.....THEN, we got started on removing the nasty carpet and padding. Funny, when we bought the coach we thought the carpet was beige...turns out it was gray and had faded and stained to the level of looking like it used to be beige. Still had some damp sub-flooring in the drier's and passenger's foot wells even after running a fan in there for the last 2 weeks, so after a clorox/water spray to kill any mold that may have begun, the fan will blow continuously for the next 3 weeks before the flooring installer comes back. We also are thinking about leaving the dinette set out. We never use it for anything except to collect "stuff." Plus, with it gone, the den area now feels like a dance floor! More space and less overall weight...that seatbelt frame under the rear bench seat weighs 60lbs or better by itself....yeah, I think it'll NOT be reinstalled.

Anywho..... we think we've decided on floating carpet squares for the majority of the coach instead of hard surface. It's lighter and easier to replace if/when one of the tiles gets stained or damaged. In the driver's area we are thinking of something like the rubber coin flooring you see in enclosed trailers. Thinking that if we have another leak around the windows up there that'll keep the water from getting down to the wood sub-floor.

If I get time, I'll take some pictures and share the progress of the reno.....