Vintage Shasta Phase Five: Flooring
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This was probably the easiest and most rewarding part of the camper revamp. Luckily, I had recently done a little research on flooring, as I was looking to update my kitchen. The Home Depot guy had told me that they would most likely install flooring over the top of my existing floors. Now I don’t know if that’s how most people would do it, but it gave me confidence that I didn’t need to figure out how to rip up the current floors - I could just lay new floors over top!
Choosing Flooring
Another new-to-me material I discovered was peel-and-stick vinyl flooring. I found a plank style (something like this) I liked at Home Depot that had a perfect gray wood look and took a guess at how much I would need. Keep in mind that the smaller the flooring pieces, the more work and time you’ll be investing into laying these floors.
I made sure that I also bought a rotary cutter and a cutting mat, as I wanted to make sure I had perfectly straight lines (no freehand).
Installing the Floors
This was really fun and overall pretty easy. I made sure I was working on clean, dry floors. I grabbed my first strip, peeled off the backing, and stuck it to the floor. It was that easy. On the second row, I made sure to start my flooring strip halfway down the first one - you don’t want all of the edges to line up row-by-row.
The majority of the floor was covered very quickly. The hardest part comes when you get to the edges. You’ll want to make sure you have sharp tools - at this point, I was using an Exacto knife, as I had a lot of small areas to carve out in the flooring.
Helpful Tips
Do your floors last. You don’t want to risk spilling paint or dropping a heavy tool on your gorgeous new floors!
Keep a few extra planks. In the future, one may get damaged, and you’ll have a few handy backups. Don’t rely on the hardware store or Amazon to keep these in stock - they may discontinue that product in the future.
Did you know you can return any unused materials to Home Depot? I took back about 1/3 of the planks I originally bought.
