Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

I was trying to decide what kind of flooring to put in the SlumberMAX. At first I thought just epoxy and poly the plywood, then I thought vinyl, then I thought painted, then I thought laminate, then I thought carpet and then I thought hull liner like I am using for my interior roof. (nice to be flexible) !!!

What did you use on the floor of your T or TTT? Do you like it? Would you do it differently?...Any problems cleaning, fading, etc?

Inquiring minds want to know???

When I was building mine all sorts of ideas went thru my head about what to do with the floor...just like the options in this poll. Then I thought, whatever I do, it will always be covered with the mattress, so I just sealed the plywood with urethane, and it remains not an issue after four years of use.

Yep, doesn't matter I don't see my floor unless I remove the mattress.

Good poll. I'm trying to keep my teardrop light so will skip vinyl in sleeping area. Probably will seal plywood floor in sleeping area with epoxy and/or paint. May use vinyl for the galley floor to protect it and dress it up. Time will tell.

I just used a few coats of spar urethane. Lightweight and waterproof too!

mike...

I had a 5' x 10' (61"x121") sheet of plam (Formica/Wilsonart) on hand and simply glued it down to the plywood floor. It's easy to keep clean and almost bullet proof, who ever sees it anyhow. Danny

I used self-adhesive vinyl tile because it was cheap and easy to apply. I put it on last so I wouldn't hog it up with glue and varnish during the construction.

Dave...the first one, I did laminate, and get this, mohagany base shoe around it.... A whole lot of extra weight and waste of time and money. I get a patch of indoor/outdoor carpet now and I don't glue it down, also I carpet the bottoms of the interior cabinets, keeps things from sliding around...I write the story/facts on the tear floor. If someone pulls the carpet out, they get the story with dates etc.... Doug

Doug,

Documenting the story of the teardrop, hummmm, forever on the floor of the teardrop! Great Idea, great idea indeed!

I was going to do a brass engraving, but might consider something like this.

Doug, you just amazed me AGAIN!!!!

John

doug hodder wrote:Dave...the first one, I did laminate, and get this, mohagany base shoe around it.... A whole lot of extra weight and waste of time and money. I get a patch of indoor/outdoor carpet now and I don't glue it down, also I carpet the bottoms of the interior cabinets, keeps things from sliding around...I write the story/facts on the tear floor. If someone pulls the carpet out, they get the story with dates etc.... Doug

You guys are killing me!!! It's really tough for me to commit in the first place...but I've dinked around long enough and I'm moving forward and putting the walls up permanent over Xmas... Yet, here I worry about the flooring...Geee, do I finish the floor before the walls go up or after the walls go up, what kind of flooring, etc. Oh my head hurts...and it isn't even New Years morning.

I used vinyl tile cause that's what 'she' wanted. If it were up to me it would have got polyed or painted, nobody sees it anyway!!!

...we have done both poly and epoxy coatings...both are fien...don't see much need for vinyl but that is a personal choice thing...since we don't build with a composite floor, I have been thinking about puttin' a inch of pinkRblue sheet insulation under the mattress. I also have access to some 5x8 sheets of closed cell "weatherstripping" type foam(maybe1/4"), that has a rubberized surface on one side and may use some of it under the mattress...this stuff is used to wrap new bumpers in for shipping to autobody repair shops...........
madjack

My mattress is 4" narrower than than the floor, so I took the few pieces of stick-down parquet tiles I had left over from previuos build and lined just the side that is exposed, poly-d the rest.

prohandyman wrote:My mattress is 4" narrower than than the floor, so I took the few pieces of stick-down parquet tiles I had left over from previuos build and lined just the side that is exposed, poly-d the rest.

I , like Dan , have a couple inches showing but I was lazy and in a hurry so I did nothing. Am I bad ? I quess I should'a sealed it but I had to install the mattress before sealing the front up and was on a deadline. I guess if I ever replace the mattress I outta seal it but I would have to cut the current one up to get it out. For a short term fix I have concidered about 6 pieces of laminet flooring that's in the attic. COME ON SUMMER !

The person who started the Sunspot restoration put in a sheet vinyl floor in the living area. Since I can almost stand up in the trailer, that lets me use a cot for a 'seat' during the day, and have a weather-tight, easy-to-clean floor (gotta love a Swiffer...). At night, I can either sleep on the featherbed tri-folded on the cot, or fold up the cot and spread the featherbed out on the floor. When it's wet out and the dogs are wet, I plan to sleep on the cot, up off the floor. But I like having the option when things are dry to fold up the cot and unroll the featherbed on the floor so we can all stretch out.

Yep, a featherbed...got one to be a topper for the futon a couple months ago, and have never slept so well. I'm hooked, and ordered a second one for the trailer!