Anyone ever lay laminate flooring?

[smitty81]

Originally Posted by pektel

Doesnt' even really need to be level. Just flat lol.

Have you checked into LVT (luxury vinyl tile)? Installation similar to laminate, but you don't have to worry about water. I sell more of this than traditional wood laminate:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oo01Sg8f0qg

It has decent vinyl flooring in it now, I was trying to stiffen up the floor a bit using the laminate wood.

[pektel]

All laminate woods currently available (that I've seen) are floating. They lock into each other, but are not secured to the floor/walls. The expansion gap will vary depending on type/thickness of laminate used.

I doubt a laminate floor will stiffen your exisitng floor, since it is not attached in any way to it. For that, you would need to go to an engineered wood, but check to see how those handle the temp/humidity swings of a camper.

[smitty81]

Originally Posted by pektel

All laminate woods currently available (that I've seen) are floating. They lock into each other, but are not secured to the floor/walls. The expansion gap will vary depending on type/thickness of laminate used.

I doubt a laminate floor will stiffen your exisitng floor, since it is not attached in any way to it. For that, you would need to go to an engineered wood, but check to see how those handle the temp/humidity swings of a camper.

I'm not looking to take all the stress off, just looking to even it out a bit more. The laminate wood would stiffen it up better than vinyl I would think?

I dunno, just seemed like a good idea to me.