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Title: floor tile
Post by: crown on September 16, 2011, 07:50:46 AM
 pros & cons on floor tile ? plus does granite tile weigh more then other tile thanks john
Title: Re: floor tile
Post by: Ed Hackenbruch on September 16, 2011, 07:58:05 AM
Easy to clean, will wake you right up in the morning if you are barefoot.  ;D
Title: Re: floor tile
Post by: TomC on September 16, 2011, 08:08:03 AM
Nothing like the feel of wood or carpet on bare feet.  Tile is very heavy and cold in comparison.  Good Luck, TomC
Title: Re: floor tile
Post by: bevans6 on September 16, 2011, 08:10:27 AM
I don't understand the attraction of marble, granite, tile in a bus.  Why weigh down the bus with luxury materials that aren't designed for a  mobile platform and then worry about the cost of fuel to drag it all around?  I focus on light weight to the greatest extent possible.

Brian
Title: Re: floor tile
Post by: TomC on September 16, 2011, 08:15:14 AM
Good point Bevans6. When I stripped my bus out, I weighed it.  It weighed 28,000lbs.  Now with the conversion completely done, with myself and wife in the bus with full tanks, it weighs 31,000lbs.  So I added 3,000lbs to the bus.  Not quite like some others I read about that their buses weigh sometimes pushing 50,000lbs!  With fuel prices going only up, trying to make a lite weight conversion should be on everyones minds.  Good Luck, TomC