| Alure Vinyl plank click flooring advice please [message #302899] |
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John Heslinga
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Registered: February 2011
Location: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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I've made up my mind and well into the exercise. I going to install some Alure vinyl plank click type flooring in the coach. I have come to a set of decisions to make but have no information to use so Im looking for the experience of the hive Please!!
The flooring is pretty heavy and will take the water that sometimes finds it's way into the coach. With some subflooring the floor rivits and voids in the original floor is now very smooth and ready for the planking. I've removed the dinner table and benches (this is a 74 so does not have flex steel) and day couch from the front so that I can place the flooring under everything and then reinstall the furniture. The furniture will be screwed down to the floor when it gets installed.
I expect that the flooring will expand and contract in the range of temperatures my coach will be exposed to. (Very cold in storage -40 to however hot it would get in my travels) . Those changes in dimension would certainly need accommodation. A full floating floor would evenly change its dimension so leaving space around the perimeter seems logical. A floor to wall transition also would be appropriate I would expect. I am just not sure how much expansion room I would need and how much I should cover the perimeter to allow for the contraction.
I also wonder at how the anchoring at the furniture will affect the changes in dimension.
Will it pull apart the joints or buckle somewhere in a way that it would look ugly??
I have an idea to put the furniture on spacers that are bolted to the subfloor through oversized holes in the flooring giving the flooring the opertunity to move below the furniture. But I'm not sure if Im overthinking this or is it a legitimate concern..
Whats your experience and advice on this install?
John and Cathie Heslinga
1974 Canyonlands 260
455, Manny tranny and 1 ton, 3:70 LS,
Red Seal Journeyman, DTE, BEd. MEd.
Edmonton, Alberta
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