Floor/carpet question
I was planning to take out the OEM carpet in my new van and put in lino, but I am so broke this year, so I might put it off. Had a lot of trouble last winter in the old van though -- the carpet got wet and I never could get it dry.
On sunny days I would open the doors and set a heater blowing on it, and it would get 100% dry, but then be damp again in the morning. I finally deduced that there was an absorbent layer under the carpet that was wet, and the water wicked upward.
So I did some investigating of my new van's carpet. Pulled up a corner. The carpet has a vinyl backing, and then under it is that multicolored fuzzy blanket stuff -- and a thin layer of pasteboard, which I guess is to even out the corrugations of the floor. It all just lays on the bare metal floor, no adhesive that I saw.
What if I take up the carpet, remove the underlayers, and put the carpet back, as a cheap and temporary solution for a year or few? I realise it will be less nice -- lumpy from the corrugations, and hard. But it might be better than the bare metal and more dry-able than the stock setup.
I don't really ever see the carpet, except once a year when I clean it for allergies, because I have a big plastic mat under my ice machine and a throw rug for the rest. Prolly get some of those heated rubber mats for under the rug, too. So it is just for slight insulation, keeping the noise and dust out while driving, etc.
But I figured I should first ask you guys if this was a dumb idea for some reason I am not seeing :B
On sunny days I would open the doors and set a heater blowing on it, and it would get 100% dry, but then be damp again in the morning. I finally deduced that there was an absorbent layer under the carpet that was wet, and the water wicked upward.
So I did some investigating of my new van's carpet. Pulled up a corner. The carpet has a vinyl backing, and then under it is that multicolored fuzzy blanket stuff -- and a thin layer of pasteboard, which I guess is to even out the corrugations of the floor. It all just lays on the bare metal floor, no adhesive that I saw.
What if I take up the carpet, remove the underlayers, and put the carpet back, as a cheap and temporary solution for a year or few? I realise it will be less nice -- lumpy from the corrugations, and hard. But it might be better than the bare metal and more dry-able than the stock setup.
I don't really ever see the carpet, except once a year when I clean it for allergies, because I have a big plastic mat under my ice machine and a throw rug for the rest. Prolly get some of those heated rubber mats for under the rug, too. So it is just for slight insulation, keeping the noise and dust out while driving, etc.
But I figured I should first ask you guys if this was a dumb idea for some reason I am not seeing :B
