Vinyl Floor Covering For Vans

The next thing to do was to install the flooring.

Vinyl floor covering for vans.

Many van dwellers choose vinyl flooring because it s thin and waterproof. We ultimately decided to use laminate flooring because it looks better than vinyl it s easy to install and it s thinner than hardwood. The flooring on a passenger van will be a slightly different because there are rails on the ground from where seats used to be. Our neighbor offered us some old hardwood flooring but the thickness would have taken too much height out of the van.

I know a lot of diy conversions use laminate flooring but man that stuff is heavy and for fuel economy we don t want to be lugging the equivalent of 4 5 boxes of laminate flooring. If your vehicle spends most of its time in a cow pasture on a construction site or playing in a mud bog then one of our heavy duty molded vinyl floor coverings might be your wisest choice. They are easy to install easy to clean and extremely durable. The flooring that i recommend using and used in my van is lifeproof vinyl plank it is incredibly easy to install pretty inexpensive and very durable in the van.

Here is a great video explaining how to install a stock floor to adjust for the rails along with the installation of a vinyl floor. Vinyl mats are custom made and molded to fit the contours of your specific floor pan trimming required. Installing the vinyl flooring so we cut our windows out carpet lined the walls and made the bed frame. Modled vinyl rubber flooring.

We decided to go with vinyl flooring to keep weight down.