Important Safety Message and Flooring...

IMPORTANT SAFETY MESSAGE

When fitting the foam underlay that lays beneath the Laminate Flooring, and cutting it into the edges, DO NOT wave the Stanley Knife around whilst paying no attention whatsoever to what your other hand is doing and end up slicing the end of your index finger.

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Yes yes it was me I did it, and now have a very sore poorly finger to prove it. Im such an idiot sometimes. Anyway.......

Today I was so tired from yesterday and really aching, so had a lazyish morning after which we popped out for an hour or so, so didnt actually get started on the camper until late afternoon.

First job was to take up the carpet I had stapled to the floor the day we went to Wales and the engine blew, so quite a while ago now. Took quite a while as when I pulled the carpet up the staples just broke the fibres and stayed stuck in the wood underneath.

Once this had been done, I swept the back out clean, then hoovered all the linings etc, making sure all the dust and loose debris was gone.

Next job was laying the foam underlay, this is when my 'accident' happened, on the first cut, which was good in a way, made me take notice and pay attention to what I was doing ! I layed the first strip then started laying the laminate.

This wasn't actually as hard as I thought it was going to be, thanks to Mike who lent me his laminate flooring fitting kit, I did quickly watch some videos on You Tube first to pick up a few pointers, then got stuck in. It was pretty easy to do the cut outs, I used a Dewalt 18v Jigsaw, it went through it easily, and luckily barely made a mistake the whole time. One of the first pieces I laid down, the one looking from the back of the camper, going round the right hand or drivers side wheel arch it didnt seem to click into place properly, I carried on but once I'd gotten towards the end and realised that that first one hadnt actually worked properly, I shifted the flooring over slightly and took the first row back up again and redid it, looking more closely at the strip of laminate, I found it hadnt been machined properly, and the very end was discoloured, once i'd cut the new piece out and put the row back in, it all sat down properly and clicked together positively, I'm glad I went back and did it as even though that piece would have been underneath the seating, it would have always been in my mind.

So that was it for today, and it has really made a difference to the look inside, its all coming together, to finish off the flooring across the back door, Focus do an aluminium angle strip that I am going to get and fix down to hide the end of the wood, and the side door opening, I will order a plastic door step cover from Volkswagen, they do it in blue, this will finish off the step and has a lip that will finish off the bare wood from the cut around the step, pictures to come when done :) This is how it looked today when I finished, I was a little bit pleased :P.