{"id":120,"date":"2012-03-10T14:40:35","date_gmt":"2012-03-10T19:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-03-16T14:15:03","modified_gmt":"2012-03-16T18:15:03","slug":"installing-laminate-floors-in-my-motorhome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/installing-laminate-floors-in-my-motorhome\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing laminate floors in my motorhome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am installing laminate flooring in my motorhome. I bought 4 boxes of laminate from Costco and some moisture barrier from Home Depot&#8230;just a 6 mil thick sheet of black plastic sheeting. We chose a light shade of laminate called &#8220;Golden Aspen&#8221; from <a href=\"http:\/\/harmonics-flooring.com\/\">Harmonics Flooring<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The light shade of this wood helps mask dust. This is very important in a RV. I have installed cherry colored laminate from the same company in my townhouse. It sure looks VERY nice but we notice that the dark color shows dust a lot. We also liked the [relatively speaking] lack of too much grain in Cherry. I never liked the grain of Oak&#8230; way too much grainy.<\/p>\n<p>I went to Lowes and they had a very nice Maple finish laminate. I placed an order for it but somehow it got discontinued \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, today I started installed it in the morning. First I removed the jacknife sofa and ripped out all the old carpet and Vinyl. Then I cleaned the subfloor and removed all this tiny staples. I was a little surprised that motorhomes are also built like regular stick built homes [well, almost]. It made it rather easy for us DIYers to work on these things. Anyway here is what it looked like stripped down to subflooring.<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=9 w=320 h=240 float=]<\/p>\n<p>Now I put down a sheet of moisture barrier and starting installing the laminate.<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=10 w=320 h=240 float=]<\/p>\n<p>It was pretty easy until I hit the bathroom area. That involved lots of cardboard templates and re-cutting. Eventually\u00a0the bathroom\u00a0looks like this:<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=16 w=320 h=240 float=]<\/p>\n<p>The stairs were also a challenge. The stripping out part was easy, just yank out the carpet!\u00a0\u00a0However the walls were made of metal.<\/p>\n<p>[singlepic id=8 w=320 h=240 float=]<\/p>\n<p>That required some liquid nails [adhesive] on the back of the laminate. This part too took a lot of time. I still have to install the molding and stair nosing. I placed an order and maybe will arrive by the weekend. After that I will post some more photos.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I am installing laminate flooring in my motorhome. I bought 4 boxes of laminate from Costco and some moisture barrier from Home Depot&#8230;just a 6 mil thick sheet of black plastic sheeting. We chose a light shade of laminate called &#8220;Golden Aspen&#8221; from Harmonics Flooring.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[22,21,23],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rvs","tag-motorhome","tag-renovation","tag-rv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rajdude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}