How To Install Wood Floor In A Van

Home sweet van floor install.

How to install wood floor in a van.

Floor installation installing a floor in a van conversion is one of the first projects that you ll need to tackle as it s the base for many future projects. Re installing the factory wood floor we moved the passenger seats towards the back of the van and added l track to hold down an additional floor layer on top of the factory floor. Jules was lukewarm on this idea because of the limited selection of colors tones and mostly went along with it until the flooring experts we talked to all thought it probably wasn t the right material for a van. Our neighbor offered us some old hardwood flooring but the thickness would have taken too much height out of the van.

Make sure that your van is ready to install the subfloor. In this case we settled on a dark distressed bamboo hardwood. A common complaint with bamboo hardwood floors is that while they re really resilient to dings and scratches once they re installed the tongues on them can be really brittle so installing them typically requires gluing them down rather than nailing them down which can be a little messy and challenging. Installing a van floor is a relatively easy process and a great way to give your camper van a more homey feel.

If you want to drill holes in your floor make sure you have a plan for doing this. We ultimately decided to use laminate flooring because it looks better than vinyl it s easy to install and it s thinner than hardwood. It s eco friendly is hard as nails and looks really nice. At the beginning richmond really wanted to install bamboo flooring.

Our approach will include a layer of polyiso insulation plywood and vinyl flooring. Tools hardware jigsaw with a wood blade 4x8 1 2 plywood lots of heavy stuff caulk gun vinyl flooring we chose a waterproof rolled vinyl in grey brown natural wood color henry 650r pressure sensitive adhesive great stuff spray foam. Many van dwellers choose vinyl flooring because it s thin and waterproof.