How To Laminate Floors On A Van

Our neighbor offered us some old hardwood flooring but the thickness would have taken too much height out of the van.

How to laminate floors on a van.

We decided to put laminate flooring in the front half of our van leaving the back half for the rough and tumble of cargo. A floor has many other critical functions than just supporting our feet. Laminate floors with their floating installation procedures are one solution. Overall this project was very easy.

Many van dwellers choose vinyl flooring because it s thin and waterproof. So half the van was done with the laminate. The next thing to do was to install the flooring. There are several options for van flooring.

A floating floor requires no adhesives or fasteners and can shift with the constantly moving vehicle. We worried that if we made the whole thing laminate flooring our cargo like out refrigerator cooler would just slide around everywhere. Installing the vinyl flooring so we cut our windows out carpet lined the walls and made the bed frame. And now is the time to install a floor in our van conversion.

Floors are an important part of this. I know a lot of diy conversions use laminate flooring but man that stuff is heavy and for fuel economy we don t want to be lugging the equivalent of 4 5 boxes of laminate flooring. Indeed a proper floor installation prevents water infiltration rust provides thermal and noise insulation and serves as anchor for the cabinets in addition it should be resistant to wear be able to withstand enough weight not produce any squeak and.