HELP! I'm building a custom travel trailer.
Hi everyone, My name is Darla and I’m going to be building a small custom RV later this year to travel solo full time throughout the United States. Yup, I’m doin it! I would love to share my RV ...
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Francesca Knowles wrote:myrvplans1 wrote:
. Road travel provides a lot of rumbling and that vibration will most likely cause gaps in the floor over time.
Further research on your part would likely reveal that most problems associated with RV flooring are actually related to exactly the materials/method you contemplate: sheet vinyl installed on floors under/before interior cabinetry.
That method is the cause of a major headache for folks in climates where winter temps get/stay below freezing. Pinned by the cabinetry, the vinyl can't expand/contract in response to temperature extremes and will simply tear instead.
Not a pretty springtime picture, but a fairly common one for those with underneath-installed sheet vinyl flooring.
Look up vinyl plank tiles. I helped a friend put these in his RV and it worked out quite nice. It is free floating so it shouldn't pull apart due to changes in weather and such as long as you don't install it under cabinets. Put it down over a good subfloor, some quarter round trim stained to match and you're good!
