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Laminate floors in campers? yah or nay?

If so, what kind, how much should you sepnd? I'm assuming you will need the stuff for kitchens / bathrooms, which is more expensive?

Do you find them slippy or not? I currently have carpet, but its a bit manky. Concerned about slipping with the baby etc....

kathy

Have you thought about vinyl floor covering, Kathy? Cushion floor type stuff, it's very waterproof & easily cleanable unlike carpet. Is laminate flooring suitably waterproof or will it get water in the joints & swell up?

NAY for me I like a non shock floor in the mornin

vinyl and laminate are colder on the feet but easier to keep clean. carpet is warmer to the feet and water won't puddle on it when you have been out in the rain, with vinyl and laminate you are back to stepping in puddles when you get up to go to the loo in the night .

Laminate with a small washable rug sounds like it would be the best of both worlds.

Go for foamy type floor lino stuff, gotta be warmer than laminate stuff...
and anyhow you may end up with half a job like on the royale family.. then what ya' gonna do ???

Carpet all the way for me [soaks up the pish splashes + LAGER too !

ive got laminate flooring in mine. its very easy to keep clean and wipe away the lager spilages etc . i used the cheap stuff though, and its starting to show scratches. thinking of upgrading to a posher laminate or maybe real wood flooring.

yea benn, i noticed your laminate on the battery box cover photo earlier ..

I dunno. Laminate and vinyl; I'm scared I'll slip if it's wet and fall on my head - ouch.

I was gonna laminate the floor of my last van and use a rug. But I was gonna use a sheet of 18mm MFC board, available in various colours, the sort that kitchen units are made out of. And as I used to work for a kitchen company in Blackburn, (called Space Kitchens), it would have been easy to get a piece, but I think B&Q and the like sell it. Quite cheap, hard wearing and you don't have to click it together and put it on a base like laminate flooring. In my van at the moment there seems to be some sort of blue industrial very short haired carpet. Previous owner, not me!

Dubstar.. I hope the material you use is better than used on my kitchen by Space Kitchens, and a better fitter. What a rip off. Had to get rid of the fitter and finish the job my self. Fitted the cooker so high my wife could not get to the grill

Laminate floors in campers? yah or nay?
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Hi Kathy...Personally I would ditch the idea of laminate flooring, it's cold to touch and too much of a safety hazzard when wet, unless you cover with a rug/mat, but then what would be the point of having it when it's covered up?

I'd recommend that you lmaybe ook at some carpet tiles, they are very very hard wearing, easy to clean, warm to touch and easy to fit.
The better quality carpet tiles look very nice with a camper interior.
And there are all sorts of colours etc available.

hope this helps.....and good luck

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Kathy ..
One pack did my van , standard set up camper .. i went down to the flooring shop and ask if they had any old stock or a single pack doing nowt in the back , finished up with some quaitly flooring in the van for under a tenner .. also i've seen in peeps vans that have done the base of the r'n'r bed in the flooring which looks good

Like a few have said its cold in the moring but its easy to sweep clean ,
i ripped mine out after i got some flooring from work ... nice soft stuff that we use in our seclusion room but even that is cool in the morning .. so i may even go back to the laminate stuff and use a rug

Got laminate in mine, one pack nine quid, job done.
Will use lino next time.................if anyone wants lino give me a shout as a mate has a carpet shop with lots of off cuts