DIY Floors in a Sprinter Van | Part One

[@Organicallyjoanna]

Watch PART TWO of us finishing our floors here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fXq0n4luqs6SmM0si=d030gl4r_M-N3D7w We ended up using two different vinyl floors (lonseal and 2tec2) as our finished product. Thanks for watching!!

[@Katrein]

I like how you included the thinking and figuring it out bits the screw method was fun :D

[@Organicallyjoanna]

Thank you! We want to keep as much of the raw process as we can in our videos ;)

[@2o3ief]

The insulation itself is the thermal break between the floor and the sheet metal. For a thermal break you need something with a high insulation factor in between two surfaces with low factors like sheet metal and wood. Obviously your floor insulation does this. A more practical application of that principle would be doing your studs in a way that minimizes contact with the sheet metal, as the more contact the wood makes with the sheet metal the more the metal can conduct heat into the van, bypassing the whatever you plan to use on the walls, via your framing.

[@Organicallyjoanna]

Yes, the insulation we are doing in the next video will separate the wood from touching the metal completely

[@Organicallyjoanna]

The kilmat is just an extra

[@2o3ief]

@@Organicallyjoanna yeah not hating just spreading more information. The kill mat isn't really providing extra thermal breakage but that's not what it's designed for and not why you ultimately put it in I'll have to check out the next one then! I assume your studs are still attached to the sheet metal when you say that?

[@Katrein]

thanks for sharing! Why are you wanting to join the sub floor sheets? Is there a risk in keeping them separate?

[@Organicallyjoanna]

We are going to be doing a vinyl roll over the floor as our finished floor. So we decided to join all the plywood as one so that when you walk on it, it wont disrupt the vinyl that gets glued down. If we kept them separate it wouldn't be a smooth of a surface and possibly not hold up as well.