Labor Day Weekend

Monday – Vinyl Flooring and Putting Her Back Together

Today was a huge day for our project. After sanding down the dried spackle from yesterday we attacked the vinyl flooring. I decided to buy one giant piece of vinyl flooring hoping to make it as waterproof as possible. We laid the flooring down on the newly attached plywood and proceeded to attach it with flooring glue. Once on the glue, we used a floor roller to smash it down and then stapled along the edges. We used a packing knife to trim around the wheels as we worked our way down. We followed the directions on the flooring glue but ended up with way too much on the surface and it was squishing out everywhere. It made a horrible mess and I got very frustrated and emotional thinking it wasn’t going to work. Somehow we managed and it looked so good once we were done. The final task of the day before we could head home was to get the box of the trailer back onto the new floor. I don’t have any pictures or videos of us in the process because it was so stressful. It had been so easy to remove the trailer because at any point I could set the jacks and 2x4s where I wanted. There was no floor to get in the way so I had a ton of access points. As we rolled the trailer back under we realized the only spots we could stabilize were on the outside. This was pretty stressful and there may have been a little arguing and a few tears. We worked together through it all and with some brute force, my husband saved the day. I would not recommend this approach unless you remove the roof panels first, have more jacks, or have a dozen people at your disposal lift it and put it back in place. We did catch the vinyl on a screw that we didn’t see, but it didn’t tear completely and the spot will be way under the bed. I plan to repair it once I find the right goo to do so. The floor glue was still squishy underfoot and I left some footprints in the trailer. I used the roller to smooth them out and a couple of weeks of hot days will hopefully tighten everything up.