Laminate or vinyl?

[sezicoolcat]

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When laying flooring and all interior is removed, do you floor all the way up to the panels, wall-to-wall like? (Blimey, that sounds like facebook)

Or do you lay the floor up to the units?

Sarah

[pocolow]

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When laying flooring and all interior is removed, do you floor all the way up to the panels, wall-to-wall like? (Blimey, that sounds like facebook)

Or do you lay the floor up to the units?

Sarah

Depends how much work you want to do. If I was just smartening up the van ,i would only recover the bits I could see. Though if you are refiting the van out , i'd do the lot, as the cost diferrence is slight.

[AndrewP]

I've just done my floor this weekend. I put down bathroom laminate on a couple of layers of insulation. I'd removed all the fitting so the floor goes from end to end and side to side. The aluminium strip riveted to the van won't go over the laminate so I've got an aluminium threshold trim from B&Q to do the job. It looks good!

[Fingle]

Weird, did our floor this weekend, 3 holes too. We used tiles. Will posts pics later. They seem tough as old boots, (which is handy as they will come up against a lot of old boots)

[Fingle]

[AndrewP]

Looks good! How do you post pics. I've tried clicking on the "Img" button, but cannot work out what to do then.

[Fingle]

Upload to photobucket (or some such similar website) and there will be 3 or 4 options. pich the IMG one and paste it into you reply (preview if u want to test it)

[weerickyni]

When I cleaned out my T25 I left the ply down,then covered it with that Thermal bubble wrap insulation,then a new sheet of 6mm ply and finally heavy duty vinyl. (black textured with glitter) Looks great and very tough and cosy. Pocolow.

any pics mate?? i want to do the same but the missus cant imagine wat it would look like!

[pocolow]

When I cleaned out my T25 I left the ply down,then covered it with that Thermal bubble wrap insulation,then a new sheet of 6mm ply and finally heavy duty vinyl. (black textured with glitter) Looks great and very tough and cosy. Pocolow.

any pics mate?? i want to do the same but the missus cant imagine wat it would look like!

Will take some tommorow and post them on here, they were selling the same type of lino at Dub freeze for£25-30

[wee bugger]

Going to put laminate down in the morning...measured it up and one pack will cover my floor - £10 from B&Q, we have a large bathroom rug (can be machine washed) that also fits perfectly to go on top of it. Was concerned about the laminate getting wet but at that price i can afford to replace next year! Its going onto a base of sound deadening "carpet"

[AndrewP]

I paid £22 for each pack, but went for some stuff called "AQUAloc" which is resistant to damp - in the hope that I won't have to replace it next year.

[Titus A Duxass]

I have finally fitted my home made trim.

[AndrewP]

Upload to photobucket (or some such similar website) and there will be 3 or 4 options. pich the IMG one and paste it into you reply (preview if u want to test it)

Thanks, I've cracked it!

[dink]

carpet, I'm not a fan of either, vinyl or laminates, cold, noisy
my bus is lined out with a hard wearing carpet
it's short pile, so it sweaps out easily enough

[PEET]

I have used many materials for floorin in my vans - ally tread plate (yeah I'm over it now!) which was horrible to keep clean, then I tried carpet, that didnt work out either got too mucky, nice piece of expensive laminate floorin - looked good but slippery for people in the back when driving and awful when it got wet! So yep I'd go for either vinyl or the rubber tiles, my current project will have rubber!