£30 floor

I've admired the wood effect flooring that many of you have in your BraziBays and now we're in 'summer' and the living zone of my Kombi is going to get busy I wondered what I could achieve on a tight budget.

I'd recently fitted a new laminate floor at home and tried one of the left over planks inside my van.  Amazingly the length of the plank at 1.285m was perfect for fitting between the seat base and the end of the kitchen units.  Under the temporary carpet that I'd made (2 years back) Max still sports the original factory rubber matting.  I was going to lay the new floor over this with a foam membrane inbetween to prevent damp.  I already had some of this foam left over from the home job.

So here's my shopping list for this job:

B&Q Beech Effect 10 plank pack £12.50
Laminate glue/sealant £3
2 x black tile trim strips to act as edging £10
A tube of clear silicone seal to sort the cupboard and seat base edges £4

I only had to cut the first plank where it meets the edge of the cupboards and the last to fit it to the sliding door edge.  Here are the pix:





I laid all the planks in to check the fit first and then used the laminate glue on the click strips as they each went in permanently. I used impact adhesive (which I already had) to glue the black trim on the edges. The floor has already proved a success over the Camperjam weekend and will be great for the forthcoming trip to France. If it gets wrecked before Christmas, I know I can renew it anytime for not much dosh.  

Lovely looking job, a big improvement.

(May be a silly question, but what happened to the table-leg socket)

dizzylizard wrote:

Lovely looking job, a big improvement.

(May be a silly question, but what happened to the table-leg socket)

Ta - I don't use it as I have a free standing Fiamma tripod now - much more flexible. The socket is still under there beneath the foam.

Roger, the socket can be a bit of a pain sometimes (literally) if you forget to put the plug back in, stubbed my toe a couple of times in the past.  

Can you use the existing table leg with the Fiamma tripod?

Yes you can Irish, but I had to buy a shorter one for use outside, (Pat's a bit vertically challenged and using the supplied leg meant the table top was about eye-level).  

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but I had to buy a shorter one for use outside, (Pat's a bit vertically challenged and using the supplied leg meant the table top was about eye-level).

I might need a taller one...

Done a tim on my bay floor and give units a paint

Looking good Daz!

Tidy!

Nice

looking good....   

Cool   

It's 3 years since I put my budget floor in and although it still does the job, some of the edges had split - probably by any of the heavy stuff I regularly transport about in my BraziBay.

So ahead of this year's Kombi Kaper, I decided to renew it today, and as luck would have it, the same beech effect pack I bought 3 years ago was still available in my local B&Q and reduced to £9!!!  So I picked up another pack, stripped out the old flooring, used the 2 outer planks as templates for the new ones and did it all over!!  Even re-using the black edging from the previous floor. Just need to get some silicone to do the seat and furniture edges and we'll be good for another 3 years!!

Nice, but now a £9 floor!

Nice job at a bargain price.
Where can I pick up one of the black non slip door edge protectors ?

harryhornet wrote:

Nice job at a bargain price.
Where can I pick up one of the black non slip door edge protectors ?

May have one ...

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TimV wrote:

harryhornet wrote:

Nice job at a bargain price.
Where can I pick up one of the black non slip door edge protectors ?

May have one ...