We are finally ready to install the flooring in our 2014 Jayco Eagle RV. We decided to go with vinyl plank from Shaw. This as the Matrix in Dockside Hickory.
Your floor looks identical to mine. Name on box, Heathered Barnwood. I also painted my walls and upper cabinets all white. The bathroom cabinet, dark 🩶 gray. The cabinet my sink and stove sits on plus one set over sink n stove dark gray 🩶. The floor now,looks ten times better. Thank you for helping me understand how to stagger as if it's real wood flooring. So easy to clean but I do miss my wood floors. I will never miss the expenses that come w living in a regular size home. I'm 50 and I will never pay for electricity or water again. Part time camper life which is solar generator ran and a tiny home, all solar but I do have a small back up gas generator. 2,700 a month. Is now 500-600 a month. If I spend that but I rescue all animals. Food isn't cheap but the joy they bring. Again, Thanks for this video. I watched twice and went to work. Hope your enjoying - 🌹🌹
We went lengthwise to, but I saw in a Winnebago article that if you’re going to drive a lot with the RV you should go wide so there’s more space for a room between the planks. I think that was the main reason too late for us. We did it the wrong way, but we’re not driving with ours.
Floor looks great. Thank you for the tips: staggering, methods, and tricks. I'm hemming and hawing between peel and stick and tongue and groove. Not finding the nonstick of peel and stick flooring a joy ride. Any feedback would be great.
@slow_restoration Hi, I wanted to reach out to you because I wanted to replace my flooring in my RV. I have a 2014 Jayco 🙂 which I absolutely love. You did this video 2 years ago and wanted to know how the flooring is handling the expansion and contraction due to heat and cold. I have seen and watch videos that tongue and groove is not a good choice. Although, I did reach out to another RU-vidr, indicating that perhaps the flooring was not properly installed. After the 2 years, what are your thoughts of the the flooring? Would you install it again? How is the floor handling the hot and/or cold? Any advise would be much much appreciated. Thank you so much. Happy Camper, Rick
No problems that I know of. I did sell it but haven't had any complaints from the new owner. This flooring is more secure than tongue and groove, it's an interlocking tongue that is hard to pull apart unless you lift the piece up at an angle. I would install this again without a question.
How did you get your flooring up under the edge of the slide and keep the slide from scratchinging the new floor as it slid in? I promise I watched to the end and even watmhed the other videos in the playlist. Thanks. I sure hope ours comesout half as gorgeous as yours!
Thanks for the support! Each slide is a little different. This one the flooring stops right at the edge of the slide. I let the transition strip overlap to cover the edge of each section, the main floor and the slide. Most slides have a rub strip and the slide is adjustable to keep it from scratching. Alot of new campers have vinyl on the floor and slides, so it's not a lot of difference between them. We went to some RV show rooms and saw how they did the new ones. Hope this helps, thanks again.
It was already there from the factory. It's a foil backed insulation. We considered removing it, but decided we wanted the benefits of it being there. It was just on the slide.
Have you had problems with the vinyl planks popping up during travel? Also do have problem with the slide scratching the vinyl when you bring the slide in? What do you do to prevent scratching?
Sorry for the late reply. We didn't have any issues with popping apart, but only used it once before selling it. I don't see it being a problem though, they snap together nicely! Most slides have a rub rail to prevent scratches and they are adjustable.
It was already there on the slide, for insulation when the slide is out. The slide doesn't really get walked on like the floor, so it doesn't more around like the rest of the floor would as you walk on it.
Will click together laminate flooring pop up with temp changes from hot to cold? Did you use regular flooring for home kitchens, or is there special RV flooring?
How did you prevent the furniture from sliding around on the new flooring. Did you have to install some type of anchor points so you could use tie-downs?
Great Video. Can you talk about the expansion allowance? Is that a small amt you leave on the very ends where the LVP abuts to cabintry? I have a small Class B and wanting to replace the carpet and vinyl tiles with LVP (just in the kitchen/galley) with carpet on either side. thanks.
