I've been installing an Allure Floor in our trailer. After a lot of adhesive removal and prep, the Allure installation went down pretty well. Now, I'm having second thoughts about how I planned to install molding around the lower floor (not under the table).
My "plan" was to adhere plywood to the interior steel frame with Liquid Nails. Then I'd glue flooring pieces to the plywood. The plywood would also allow me to shoot quarter round into it.
I read through the many posts about putting down an Allure Floor, but there's not much mentioned about hold down methods.
Am I making this part of the process too complicated?
Do you folks just attach the flooring and molding directly to the steel frame?
Not sure I'm following. It is a floating floor product and is not glued down. The joints are pre-treated with glue and just get them tight before setting them.
When I put the benches back in and stanchions for table if using rv poles, etc. screw through the new flooring. Occasionally, I have to shoot some quarter round trim but it shoots right into the existing scamp plywood floor.
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I believe he is talking about on the vertical section of the "dance floor". Once you remove the carpet, it is the steel frame exposed on the interior. When I did mine, I just cut the flooring to fit, then used a metal trim strip ("L" shaped like is used on stairs). On the bottom, I used quarter round. This held quite well for the couple of years I had the trailer. If I recall, I used just one "plank" laying sideways. It looked fine even though it was running 90 degrees from the rest of the floor.
Ah, you may be correct, Lyle. I'm actually doing that section in my 19 this week. I cut and match pieces that go up the riser so the seams continue inline from the rear wall, down the riser and on to the front. I join the riser pieces into one piece and then use an aluminum L bracket on the top screwed into the metal behind. Like Lyle, I shoot quarter round at the bottom seam into the Scamp sub-floor.
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2015 19 Escape
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Fiberglass-RV-4Sale
Apologies for my confusing original post. I just re-read it and I can barely follow it. Lyle was correct. I was referring to the allure flooring that I was thinking of installing on all of the vertical steel frame surfaces.
If I'm understanding correctly, folks are installing the allure vertically without any adhesive? There's no warping?
When I installed the vertical piece from the "dance floor" ( thank you Lyle that is a very appropriate description), I cut it to size with a table saw and used a few spots of caulk on the back to hold it in place. It is one continuous horizontal piece directly attached to the metal.The top is held in place with the L-shaped stair edging. The bottom is just a seam of caulking I did the same thing (without the stair edging) under the kick spaces on both sides. They are held in place with caulking.
Wayne
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First, I want to thank Greg, Lyle and Wayne for their comments. I'm definitely going to simplify my project. I picked up a bunch of stair edging from HD today because the trailer didn't have any when we bought it. Also ordered matching quarter round for the main floor (no dancing allowed).
Wayne, that's a very clean finished job. I really like the look of your pedestal table. I showed the photo to my wife and all she said was, "don't you dare, finish all your other projects first".
Hmmm. What fun would that be?