Flooring ?? What are You Using ??

[Oonrahnjay]

... If I did it again I would use the pre-molded Vinyl Plank Flooring http://www.lowes.com/pl/Vinyl-plank-Vinyl-flooring-Flooring/4294608591?refinement=4294515177 that look like wood .  Thats the way to go.  ...

     I was looking at some of that in Lowes yesterday.  Yeah, pretty sweet.

[Runcutter]

Steve, have you thought about what our coaches had as original flooring -- sheet rubber from RCA Rubber? http://www.rcarubber.com/flexi/products/sheet.asp http://www.rcarubber.com/transit/products/transit.asp

When I was buying buses, I always specified RCA Transit Flooring.  Talking with them at transit industry trade shows a few years ago, they still had the molds for step treads for some models - they had just junked the molds for 4107/8, 4903/5 step treads to make more room.

Arthur

[Cary and Don]

We had tile in the Gm and hardwood in the Eagle. The hardwood is swelling off the floor in California. The tile in the GM never gave us a minutes trouble.

As for the "cushy" vinyl floors. They have one big problem. Don't drop a can on it. The dent never leaves. From what I have seen dents from rocks don't go away either.

We are planning on replacing the flooring in the Eagle. We have already repaired it once. We will be looking at some indestructible vinyl this time.

Don and Cary

[buswarrior]

As noted, the inside of a coach is exposed to dramatic swings in humidity and temperature, pretty much no matter where you park it.

As evidence, leave your maintenance manual sitting out on the counter open to a page....

It'll show you wrinkly from the wet the top pages have absorbed and shed after awhile most places.

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happy coaching!
buswarrior

[Lin]

We have tile in the kitchen.  Something fell out of the frig while traveling once and cracked a tile, so I am not for that.  The bedroom and living room are carpeted.  I would consider doing the same again with some lifetime stain warranty.  We put vinyl plank in the bathroom though and that has not had any issues.  This was the floating type that has each plank adhering to the edge of the one before.  The free floating one linked above looks pretty good, but it would seem that any liquid spills would seep under it.

We once did a rubber floor in a house kitchen.  It was certainly comfortable, durable, and low maintenance.  However, it did have an industrial look.  Maybe there are more pleasing designs available now.

[Scott & Heather]

Don and Cary,

I've had cushionstep in our coach for years and never had that happen. No dents. Armstrong actually advertises it as resistant to debts from dropping things than normal vinyl sheet. The new stuff we just bought is a lot thicker of a cushion so maybe this one will dent? I'll find out and let you know haha. If it does, I guess I'll have to build a new bus


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[ccbmster]

The Loose Lay wont dent, and if you ever did manage to damage a plank you can just carefully slide your utility knife in between the edge of that plank and one next to it and lift it out.  Drop a new one in and it is good to go.

I have been able to play around with some samples and I have been very impressed.

[sixtyseven]

We used Armstrong premium vinyl sheet flooring the full length of the coach.  No problems in 14 years.   Still looks good.  Easy to keep clean.  If I did it again I would do it exactly the same