WARNING Think Twice Before Removing Carpet From Your RV or Motor Home to Install Laminate Flooring
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ต.ค. 2024
- Just a warning to others who want to remove or replace the carpet in their RV or motor home just to install laminate flooring or any other kind of hard wood vinyl or floating flooring when you have room slides you may not like the results after the weight of the room begins to scratch you pretty new flooring. This work was perform on HWH room slide system also on the HWH Store More slide design.
My man! Got a thought would like cool! Just make strips of carpet where the slide guide's are! Trim thm would be a conversation piece!
THANK U SO MUCH FOR SHOWING THE GLIDE SHOE & HOW IT CAN GET DAMAGED FROM INSTALLING VINYL FLOORING!!! This is something the majority of people would never even know could happen! I appreciate u taking the time to explain the problem thoroughly:)
4 years ago I did this (removed carpet and installed vinyl plank)... and found an easy solution that has held up. On top of the vinyl plank, I screwed down 2 ( one inch wide about quarter inch thick) stainless steel railes (on floor, one near front and one near back of slide) which gives a bit of elevation and gives the slide something to slide on. I just counter sinked 3 small screws to screw the railes into the floor (screws are the same ones I use with a threshold strip). Each rail is about 30 inches long.. just open the slide and push each steel rail under the slideout (with a flat bar create a little lift to make space to push rail under the carpet shoe) far enough so the rail is under the carpet shoe and the rails ends inside the motorhome to about where the slideout stops. Looks good and works perfectly easy to do. Hope that helps!
My concerns with the glued carpet method is you are always pushing and pulling the glued carpet pieces across the vinyl plank which can cause stress to the plank seams causing eventual seam separation...and as you mention way to easy for a small amount of debris to cause scratching.
That's a great idea can you send me some pictures on how you did this?
to my cell or email address my cell number is 606-875-0125 or kc5210@gmail.com
Kevin if you do an install of Steve’s method please make a video. What a great idea! Also thanks for info Kevin, great video
Steve Great idea can you send me some pictures of this? my cell phone number is 606-875-0125 or by email kc5210@gmail.com
@@robthompson343 I sure will
@@ktoutdoor ok... emailed you a photo of the railing I installed near front of slide.
Thank you for making this video. I am determined to get rid of the carpet in my RV - I would have been so disappointed if I’d put in tile to have it ground down by the slide shoe. 😕 Living in a rural environment I want less things for mice to contaminate. IE: carpet. 😀
Thanks for watching have a bless day Phyllis
This video was helpful. I saw on another channel that Lippert makes slide out slickers to protect the flooring.
Hey Kevin, this was a really enlightening video. Thank you for sharing!
Just well trimmed carpet in the slide guide's little strips!
Could you post a video short?
Thank you because I am about to lay vinyl roll flooring🎉🎉🎉
You're smart! I wouldn't have thought of that!
Love the video Kevin!!! Weird seeing my RV in your video but at the same time, really cool!!! It’s a 02 Winnebago Adventurer btw:-). Lol
9:23 Smart! What if you were to use a cutting of a yoga mat? Thin and possibly durable?
Mine ('04 Itasca M30) has both kitchen and dinette in the slideout, with carpet at the dinette and tile at the kitchen. While the carpet section has the glide strip, the kitchen/tile section has a roller. I'd like to get rid of the carpet, and put a roller on that front section of the slideout but not sure how to gain access. At the very least, your videos get into the nuts and bolts of these Winnebago's/Itascas. Thanks!
Anything is possible but if its only one small roller that's still a whole lot of weight going on one small area and that roller may soon be making a wear mark on your new floor. Now if you had 4 or 5 rollers????
I watched a video in which the man made some carpet strips about 4' wide and 2 foot long that he laid down perpendicular along the floor so the that the slide ran on as it came in and went out of the house. it stopped the slide from dropping down onto the flooring. He didn't show it in use so I don't know if it worked.
Thanks for sharing Cele have a blessed day
Yes it looked goofy
BUT I WAS SO HAPPY TO SEE PROBLEM AHEAD OF TIME!
Glue Carpet to the bottom of the glide shoe and Bob's your uncle.
BOBS YOUR UNCLE LOL I say that all the time...
If you Google "mini caster wheels" you'll find a set of casters that look identical to the glide shoe but has 2 big ball bearing in them. Your slide height is also adjustable, you may need to raise it. Great video though. Camper repairs suck!
Thank you for contributing.
I thank you for such an informative video. I was 21:46 wondering if I could take the carpet out I my 5th wheel but NOT the slide area and woukd I have all this trouble as well?
First confirm that your slide truly slides across the carpet. if it does then just leave that section of carpet and replace the rest. If you slide never touches the carpet then replace it all.
We tried it with carpet intact before planking
and it was going to have a problem
Good Mornig. How has the floor worked out and would you do it again. Jack
I see you have a Predalatator generator! Hmmm, very interesting!
Kevin, what tv and tv mount did you use in your rv? We have a similar model that still has the RCA analog tv in it.
Give me a call i will explain 606-875-0125 Kevin
I saw a TH-cam video where carpet slippers are made to solve the problem.
Excellent videos!!! Thanks!
Thanks for this information and video
Your Most welcome
I’ll send you a pic of my floor I put in about a yr ago
Exactly what mine is doing
Mine doesn’t have a sloding room
That bug barely survived your tyrannical hands 🪲🐜