What way do you run wood in a conversion?

[belfert]

Is wood (well, fake wood) normally run parallel to the length of a bus or cross ways?  The rule of thumb I always hear about this in a house is to run it the short way.  The reason for this is running it the long way makes the space seem long and skinny.

I think it is easier and looks better to me to run it parallel to the length of the bus, but it might look funny to others.

[TomC]

Anyway you want. Up and down is my way

[Lin]

Sounds like a personal taste issue to me.

[joe]

I ran mine long ways but see a lot of professional redo running it on a 45.

It looks good, If I had known that I would have run mine on a 45.

[sledhead]

I like the front to back look and have it that way on both coaches

dave   

[boxcarOkie]

The Maui Wowie Teaky wood in my bus (Made In China) runs Horizontal (side to side) but I have seen it lengthwise, on an angle, and just about any way, shape or form, that a richly endowed imagination could come up with, in order to put it down.

Go for it!

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[niles500]

Diagonal , 45 degrees

[Jeremy]

I assume we're talking about wood planks on the floor (or possibly ceiling) here; I would suggest that it depends upon both your sub-floor and the visual effect you want to achieve.

Your sub-floor probably has joints between sheets, and supports underneath, that run lengthwise and crosswise. In my case my floor also has a dropped centre aisle (which will become a cable and piping conduit) which runs lengthwise. For maximum stiffness and stability the joints between the planks of your new top layer wants to cross the joints and supports of the sub-floor at an angle, not run along them, which probably means putting them at 45 degrees.

The visual thing is easy - having the planks run lengthwise will make the interior look longer and narrower, having them run crosswise will make it look shorter and fatter

Jeremy

[Scott & Heather]

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[Scott & Heather]

Ceiling is the same


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[belfert]

I currently have vinyl composition tile in my bus.  They have shifted and look like hell.  Stuff has been spilled and has soaked in between the tiles.  I may have to replace the sub floor and I will need new flooring if I do that.  I am considering something like the vinyl planking they sell now, but I don't really think I want something that just floats in a bus.  The other thing I am considering is roll vinyl flooring so no seams for stuff to get down into the subfloor.

I already replaced the subfloor once and I think the seams are over top of metal framing, but I don't recall for sure.

[Jeremy]

In my bus only the central aisle is really 'solid' floor, with the sides where the seats were just being sheeted with 1/2" birch ply. The birch ply is decent enough stuff, but it does flex a bit. Rather than replace the whole sub-floor with thicker plywood to make it rigid enough to allow normal (fairly thin) flooring planks to be used, I have decided instead to spend some money and use really top-quality engineered oak flooring planks (1" or more thick). I've tested these in the shop by clipping them together, supporting both ends on blocks and jumping up and down on the middle, and they seem to be good enough just by themselves to make a totally rigid and stiff floor - so I reckon those, laid at 45 degrees and with the plywood sub-floor screwed UP to the planks from below, will make for a pretty bullet-proof end result. 

But I haven't done this yet, so it's all just theoretical at this stage

Jeremy

[brmax]

Ya know reading through all the post and very interesting they were. I have easily decided as a traditional kinda dude that the Christmas theme works and just has that you know uh sparkle. So going with that one for now, and as a traditional kinda dude come the new year I just ?might? have a new resolution.
For now its been a great weekend

Floyd

[B_K]

If I were going to do a wood conversion I would probably be steam powered by burning the wood to create steam!
  BK 

[Jim Eh.]

Wouldn't the rest of the bus burn if you lit the walls and floor on fire?