Floor Removal - Skoolie Bus Conversion - E5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- Skoolie Website: colaventures.co/
In this video we removed the floor in our skoolie.
Essential Skoolie Tools: kit.co/ColaVen...
Vloging setup: kit.co/ColaVen...
Tools used:
Dewalt impact driver - amzn.to/2FyK2Hd
Wrecking bar - amzn.to/2r6sxuw
T-30 bit - amzn.to/2DucRUw
I've just bought a bus in nz, so glad I wasn't the only one who found the floors tough going haha, I got the crow bar into it, my ply was sooo stuck that it stayed attached to the lino rubber 💪🏻🤦♀️
Good luck on your conversion! I found the demo to be the most grueling.
I am jealous that your floors were screwed in, ours were glued and they were a nightmare. Good work!
I'm about to start tearing up our shorties floor... I'm praying it comes up like yours!!
Good luck!
Great video,
A tip that can be helpful to some, is to Pry up the edge of the plywood up with a pry bar, and sneak a floor jack under there. You can get "tons" of power to pry them up.
Thanks John! Luckily ours came up without having to use extreme force!
This is a great tip!
any1 watching for ideas, save yourself the trouble. Leave the rubber and just pull up the plywood. I used a prybar and a small car jack, hammer in the bar, then jack it up to pop the wood loose (if its old enough wood, don't ruin your bus floors). Took about 3 hours to get down to bare metal. Wood ripped up leaving exposed screws and nails (who nails wood to metal?). Great vids tho :D
I'd like to add to this great tip:
Buy or rent yourself an air hammer, aka air chisel. It will speed things up hundredfold, as it is able to cut rubber, cut nails, remove rivet heads, and basically rip through most of the flooring with relative ease. They come in various sizes, and I am renting mine (with air compressor) at $35,- per day which is very reasonable.
Love your videography! That reference back to "doesn't seem to be too difficult" is hilarious. How hard you all worked!!! Even the little guy & young man. Beautiful family time, though. :)
I'm having the same issue with the trim that goes around the flooring. The screws heads are rusted and soft and just strip. Had to get the pry bar. Was thinking maybe a metal grinder if all else fails, lol. Thanks for sharing!
Yep that is usually the progression :) try to screw it out, try to pry it out, then just grind the heck out of it. dynamite is step 4.
It looks like a real big deal... but I dig the optimism... we are about to start ours!
Just about to do this..thinkin long bar = more leverage ;) thx for rhe vids
That is good math! Good luck!
A Burke Bar. Late for this bus project but pass it along. Best tool for removing shit.
I fully support child labor
How did you get the heaters out? I wish that was shown 😩
We have a different video just about that!
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@@ColaVentures yaaaay thank yoou ! those heaters are a hassel man. i have two in my thomas bus and i dont want to mess up the system because there is a whole pipe that connects the two from the wall.
Do the floors have to come out??
Nope! But a lot of times people find rust and rotten plywood down there. School buses get pretty banged up over the years and you find some pretty crazy stuff.
Lol. With a crowbar!
You from SC? Saw you're name is cola it's what we call Columbia
Colavecchio is the full name :) Italian. We are currently living up in Olympia WA
@@ColaVentures nice my hopes were high to see another skoolie close by!
I’m new to this. What is the purpose of taking out the plywood flooring?
The floors can be pretty stinky and moldy and it helps to prevent rust.
Omg how do you not show the finished job in the end. 😑
Why remove the floor?
To fix any rust issues and to insulate
Where are your masks?!
Dude, my comment was ONE YEAR old, had ZERO to do with covid.