Vinyl plank floor?

[trailerbikecamp]

Has anyone replaced their carpet and linoleum flooring? DW doesn't like the light coloured carpeting since it shows up any dirt and blemishes. She originally wanted to replace the carpet and linoleum flooring with laminate. But, after talking with her brother, who put laminate flooring in his fiver, she is having second thoughts. He did his 2yrs ago and some of his seams are coming apart. This is due to high humidity where we live.

She is now thinking of putting in vinyl plank flooring. Has anyone put this into their RV? If we do this, what can we expect. Will it stand up to high humidity? What about traffic?

There is only us 2, no kids, but do have visitors.

[BigSkillet]

I guess if possible sliding is concerned, you could glue the far left and far right planks and not everything else in-between. I'm going to try it with the layer of rubber which will keep it from moving in addition to any insulation benefits. My friends have not had any issues with the floating style.

[whiteeye42]

i am getting ready to install the vinyl plank flooring in my fifth wheel it is the allure brand by traffic master i got it at home depot

[John___Angela]

trailerbikecamper wrote:

John & Angela wrote:

trailerbikecamper wrote:
Thanks 4x4dodger and every one else who has given me insight into this. It seems that with vinyl flooring, as with many other things, you get what you pay for. A better quality(higher price) will last longer and resist wear better.

I had already considered using something that has to be glued down to prevent movement as the trailer flexes on the road, and while the slide moves in and out.
Dan

Ours in the picture we posted is Pergo from Home Depot. I guess you would call it snap together but really it's more of a groove thing. The underlay is replaced by the heat pad but wherever there is no heat pad you just use the normal pad. It wasn't quick but a lot of it was prep. Ours looks like the day it was put in and it wears excellent including chihuahua traffic and sometimes shoes. Nice to have warm floors. Good luck with whatever you choose.

I looked at the photos again. It looks good. Do you have a slide in the MH? My biggest concerns are how it will stand up. The slide in our older Carriage has an above the frame slide. This means the bottom of the slide runs across the carpet.

Wondering if this will damage the new flooring, whether it's vinyl or something else?

Hmmm. Tough question. On our slide there is really no contact with the floor so I can't help you with that. If yours will have some contact with the floor I recommend running the planking so the grain of the wood is with the direction of the slide. That way if there are microscopic scratches they will simply blend in with the grain. I have seen this and it looks nice and the person I talked to who did it felt it made the coach feel wider as well.

Hope this helps.

Cheers.

[trailerbikecamp]

John & Angela wrote:

trailerbikecamper wrote:
Thanks 4x4dodger and every one else who has given me insight into this. It seems that with vinyl flooring, as with many other things, you get what you pay for. A better quality(higher price) will last longer and resist wear better.

I had already considered using something that has to be glued down to prevent movement as the trailer flexes on the road, and while the slide moves in and out.
Dan

Ours in the picture we posted is Pergo from Home Depot. I guess you would call it snap together but really it's more of a groove thing. The underlay is replaced by the heat pad but wherever there is no heat pad you just use the normal pad. It wasn't quick but a lot of it was prep. Ours looks like the day it was put in and it wears excellent including chihuahua traffic and sometimes shoes. Nice to have warm floors. Good luck with whatever you choose.

I looked at the photos again. It looks good. Do you have a slide in the MH? My biggest concerns are how it will stand up. The slide in our older Carriage has an above the frame slide. This means the bottom of the slide runs across the carpet.

Wondering if this will damage the new flooring, whether it's vinyl or something else?

[John___Angela]

trailerbikecamper wrote:
Thanks 4x4dodger and every one else who has given me insight into this. It seems that with vinyl flooring, as with many other things, you get what you pay for. A better quality(higher price) will last longer and resist wear better.

I had already considered using something that has to be glued down to prevent movement as the trailer flexes on the road, and while the slide moves in and out.
Dan

Ours in the picture we posted is Pergo from Home Depot. I guess you would call it snap together but really it's more of a groove thing. The underlay is replaced by the heat pad but wherever there is no heat pad you just use the normal pad. It wasn't quick but a lot of it was prep. Ours looks like the day it was put in and it wears excellent including chihuahua traffic and sometimes shoes. Nice to have warm floors. Good luck with whatever you choose.

[trailerbikecamp]

Thanks 4x4dodger and every one else who has given me insight into this. It seems that with vinyl flooring, as with many other things, you get what you pay for. A better quality(higher price) will last longer and resist wear better.

I had already considered using something that has to be glued down to prevent movement as the trailer flexes on the road, and while the slide moves in and out.
Dan

[FlatBroke]

Put self sticking ones on a vertical surface. All the seams popped up. Not good for that.

[4X4Dodger]

There's and article in the most recent Trailer Life about re-doing the interior of a TT by a company that does it as a specialty. They are shown putting down what is described as Congoleum Tile that they put down on the floor after cutting and removing the vinyl flooring and carpet that was originally there.

This they glued down with a special glue and used a flexible vinyl based grouting.

Take a look at that article.

Personally I would shy away from anything that "floats". it's bound to have problems over the years.

I am planning this same upgrade to mine sometime this year.

[MEXICOWANDERER]

You might want to tap into the experience of a commercial installer in homes in your area. Surface prep is key. Top shelf products like 3M may also help a lot. The ship's carpenter who did my teak deck and counters used 3M. Swore by it.

[trailerbikecamp]

DaHose wrote:
I put in some vinyl plank in the kitchen of my 1983. The floor moves some and and truth be told, I wish I had just done linoleum. The plank flooring has crept/separated on a few seams.

There are some great linoleum options now that look like wood flooring and a single, continuous sheet won't separate at the seams.

Jose

To stop the planks from separating, can they be glued together with some sort of adhesive? Do some manufacturers make a line of plank flooring that can be glued together, instead of gluing it to the subfloor?

[DaHose]

I put in some vinyl plank in the kitchen of my 1983. The floor moves some and and truth be told, I wish I had just done linoleum. The plank flooring has crept/separated on a few seams.

There are some great linoleum options now that look like wood flooring and a single, continuous sheet won't separate at the seams.

Jose

[Wind_River]

I just finished installing floating, snap together vinyl plank flooring in the tt. I sure hope it holds up in the large temperature changes we have here in Wyoming, from 100° to -40°.

I pulled all the carpet and did the entire floor because the OEM flooring cracked last winter.

As was stated, use quarter round around the edges.

[John___Angela]

We did. And its heated as well. Nice on the feet. In year three no problems.

[Merrykalia]

If you look at some of the new RVs, that is what is in many of them.