Replacing Flooring

I will agree that floating floors are more work, as you have to mount any heavy objects off the floor and then install trim around the perimeter to cover the expansion gap, but I don't see that has a "don't use it".

As an example, our cork floor is 10.5 mm thick. I raised furniture, captains chairs, etc on 1/2" plywood cut 3/8" "smaller than the outer dimensions" of the furniture. So the flooring goes under the furniture, but is actually still floating. The other option is to leave a gap and then trim with quarter round. In fact, Dianne is out in the garage right now putting the second coat of stain/polyurethane on the quarter round.

Aside from the good people that replied here, other research in other threads on this subject reflected that no "Floating" floor is good for an RV and that most floors requiring an adhesive will "contract" and "expand" with really cold or really hot use - that flooring meant for a brick and mortar will not stand up to temperature changes, causing the floor to separate and move back and forth (not necessarily to the right spot!) Based on this, it appears only a continuous piece of flooring installed properly; tile that is mortared; or carpeting, will meet the RV requirements. Anyone??

Dianne and I are in the process of replacing carpet and old damaged oak with all cork flooring.

We choose U.S. Floor floating click together cork floor. The cork is light weight, absorbs sound and is a good thermal insulator. So far, installation going very well.

As to whether this is a DIY project, that really depends on your skill set. Lots of work, but not rocket science. An old table saw and a couple of hand saws are all my "special tools".

check my profile

We replaced all the carpet and linolium from behind the front seats all the way to the back wall. We used the allure from homedepot that sticks together. It looks like slate. I also put a small strip of contact cement down the center of the piece.

Scars wrote:
We've been considering a redo on the carpet to laminate of some sort. The big box lumber stores have a product called ALLURE which is click together flooring. Do a search on it here and you'll find a bunch of discussions and good info.

So.......... how do you deal with the slides ?

We've been considering a redo on the carpet to laminate of some sort. The big box lumber stores have a product called ALLURE which is click together flooring. Do a search on it here and you'll find a bunch of discussions and good info.