A New Floor, FLOR Carpet Tiles

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Reply #25 – May 26, 2020, 09:32:33 pm

Roger, you are very good at the profile duplication. I am not and just go with this instead.
Amazon.com : profile Duplicator

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Reply #26 – May 27, 2020, 10:12:42 am

Thanks! I am doing the best I can and having some fun at it as well.

I have a small profile duplicator like these that works well on smaller pieces. Mostly it just takes patience and practice. A heavy paper template that you can fine tune until it is as good as it can be is the key. Then transferring that to the material and cutting carefully and adjusting as needed (there is always a bit of that) to make the best fit you can. It is made more difficult when fitting to the dash hump, the step trim and the adjacent tiles all at the same time. Take the time it needs to get it right, make templates!

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Reply #27 – May 27, 2020, 10:18:10 am

Well, I LIKE it! And, we too like the feel of carpet, which seems to be against all the conventional wisdom these days. I'm glad to see we are not alone in our preference. Ours is original and needs replacing, too.

Thanks for sharing.

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Reply #28 – May 27, 2020, 10:23:31 am

What ever happened to old school linoleum pattern making using felt paper roughly cut to within 1/2" then marking the contour at 1" and adding that 1" back when making your final pattern?

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Reply #29 – May 27, 2020, 10:27:35 am

Peter, Please see #18. Pattern making is alive and well in my tool bag.

I will finish all the remaining small pieces today. Raining today, 3.5" over night, dry and sunny tomorrow, a better day for gluing.

And I have to cut a tree than came down last night in the storm.

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Reply #30 – May 27, 2020, 11:01:06 am

Quote from: master2301 – May 26, 2020, 09:32:33 pm

Roger, you are very good at the profile duplication. I am not and just go with this instead.
Amazon.com : profile Duplicator

Had several in my tool kit when doing laminate or porcelain tile!

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Reply #31 – May 27, 2020, 02:05:51 pm

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Reply #32 – May 27, 2020, 05:04:13 pm

We have to do the floor soon and everyone is making us look bad. Such a terrific job from you all. We have to find a product that looks good, won't scratch from the dogs and their spilled water won't hurt it.

Running a Cat 5 cable from the old inverter panel area on the kitchen wall down to where the old Taytronics inverter was a challenge. I removed the NuTone food processor AFTER UNPLUGGING IT but had to go online to find how to retract the twin brackets on the side. So, you put a flat bladed knife under the trim piece and lift until it's a couple of inches above the countertop. Then use your fingers to make the two wire holders at each end release. Then take a regular screwdriver and turn the screw in the middle of the processor CCW lots and lots of turns until you can lift the unit up and out of the way. Now you can reach down and work with the wiring. Under sink is also a bit of work removing the bottom shelf.

Pierce

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Reply #33 – May 27, 2020, 10:05:44 pm

OK, all the pieces are cut and fit. Adhesive tomorrow. Some of the pieces will get stapled (the step well). There are two panels in front of the drivers seat to finish as well.

Another inch and a half or rain today. Now I have to cut the grass,

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Reply #34 – May 27, 2020, 10:12:50 pm

Me want!

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Reply #35 – May 28, 2020, 01:42:51 am

Nice work

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Reply #36 – May 28, 2020, 08:12:07 am

Juicesqueezer asked Ernee about the drivers side seat base. I am sure there is a way to get it out but four of the seven bolts are hidden in my coach. Way too much work to to remove the seat base, just fit around it, it is hidden anyway. The passenger's side base was accessible in the wheel well and having it out of the way made most if the job easier.

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Reply #37 – May 28, 2020, 09:16:43 am

I tool the seat base out of ours but it does take 2 people
2 bolts were in wheel well area the other 2 were in front of the air bag that is on front side of wheel well close to the beam.

It is a pane but is doable . If I didn't have help that day I would have fitted my floor around the base
Chris

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Reply #38 – May 28, 2020, 09:47:56 am

Looks terrific. I especially like the refinished wood floor in the kitchen and the light color patterned carpet you selected. I've done the carpet tear out, and have the refinishing and flooring replacement ahead. Your post gives me renewed optimism that the results will be awesum.

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Reply #39 – May 28, 2020, 10:13:17 pm

Almost done. It took about three hours to apply the glue to the floor and let it dry and the set the all the carpet tiles. We did the bed room first and then the front end. All of the tiles were numbered and orientation noted. We stacked them up in the order that they would get laid down, applied the adhesive, a bright blue-green goo. It dries for about 30 minutes and then the tiles get set in place, About 80 pieces altogether. Looks good. Step well is done, step well threshold, got stained today, poly tomorrow.

Just a few last minute pieces to finish up. I'll post more pictures tomorrow.

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Reply #40 – May 29, 2020, 12:57:25 pm

Roger, are all the many bolt heads in your wood under-floor, Rolok bolts holding up the bay walls?

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Reply #41 – May 29, 2020, 02:07:01 pm

Hi Barry, My assumption is that many are going in to the top member of the bulkhead. I did check a small sample of them, perhaps 10, and found none loose at all. There were some with silicone over the bolt heads in the floor, not sure why.

I guess if I were rebuilding the basement (if it were necessary) I would run steel rods from the top of the floor all the way through the bulkheads and partitions through the basement floor and put the entire structure in compression. But I am not going to be doing that.

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Reply #42 – May 29, 2020, 06:50:53 pm

Thanks Roger,

Hundreds of our coach models have some rear & front bulkhead bolt problems.

But it appears even with all the extremely heavy weight on bay floors from fuel, batteries, holding-tanks, water, propane, and storage top & bottom bay wall Rolox bolts are in tension holding up thousands of weight without a problem.

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Reply #43 – May 29, 2020, 07:44:35 pm

Barry, it did not appear that they skimped on the bolts.

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Reply #44 – May 31, 2020, 04:29:25 pm

Well this job is almost done. I have to make a trim piece for the small cabinet behind the passengers seat. My neighbor is coming over to help get the seats back into the coach. I hope the pictures and progress documentation encourages someone to give this a try. The big parts move right along. I am sure Ernee will agree it is all the little bits that add up the time but make the end result as good as it can be. I have a great appreciation for his attention to detail.

We used leftover pieces from the Waterhog mat to cover the steps and the step well cover to match the Waterhog mat up front.

Total cost was about $1300. Less than 40 hours of my time. That includes refinishing the kitchen wood floor and making a new step well transition.

As in every one of these projects we do, Susan is always a valuable partner. Thanks! I would be hard pressed to get them done without her contributions.

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Reply #45 – June 01, 2020, 01:14:48 pm

Well done Roger! Yes, I removed the base plates and the driver side was a bear. Had the DW hold the head of the bolts while I crawled under the coach and located the hidden nuts. Fun fun! I believe if I remember correctly, I used approximately 20 inch extender with ratchet and spoke soft words! LOL

Pierce; look at the flooring from Lowe's on the rubber flooring they sell. It is waterproof and It may supress the the nail scratches from your pets. This flooring can be glued down per the vendor. Locks together like laminate. This is what I ran from the bath to the front of the coach and very happy with results! Easy clean up as well with a Swiffer brush!

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Reply #46 – June 01, 2020, 01:34:18 pm

Looks good, thanks. I like the contrast between the cabinets and the floor. Roger's entry also looks good. Our wool carpet on the steps seems to get dirty in seconds after I clean it. Can't blame it on the dogs. Will check Lowe's in a couple of days.

Since ours is mid-entry, I would like to get rid of the wasted space behind the entrance and put in a sofa/dinette convertible to a short bed for the grandkids. I was trying to figure how to engineer another bed above that would fold out and once in position, it would have another folding piece to give added length. If only the entry had been moved forward a foot.

Pierce

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Reply #47 – June 25, 2020, 09:27:23 pm

Finally finished up the last piece of the floor, the trim along the raised cableway on the passenger's side of the living room and the trim around the small cabinet behind the passenger's seat.

Cherry, finished to match aged interior. Spent a bit of time to make it fit and add a three step detail drawn from the FT doors.

We think the whole result looks nice. Fresh, bright and easy to take care of.

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Reply #48 – June 25, 2020, 09:37:35 pm

Looks great! You are quite a craftsman!

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Reply #49 – April 08, 2021, 09:26:02 am

Roger, I see that you have a custom carpet dash cover in your photos. Is that something that is commercially available or did you have it custom made?

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