Best Flooring For Vintage Airstream

This entry was posted in campers trailers vintage floors and tagged airstream flooring original restore retro shasta travel trailer vintage on august 8 2012 by mclique.

Best flooring for vintage airstream. May 28 2020 at 5 50 pm sheena have you had your camper on the road yet. Wondering how the floating floor stayed in place during hauling. With the paint completed the next step is the flooring so the cabinets and systems can go in next. Is the restoration of a vintage airstream on your bucket list.

Lino was chosen back then for its durability and ease to clean. However i did not want a colored vinyl type look for the floor. Read more non toxic replacement flooring for an airstream or travel trailer. Very little was holding the shell to the floor or the floor to the frame.

If you plan to do more than just redecorate a used trailer what we learned while doing restoration of our 1961 airstream one of a kind golden caravan model will make your project go more smoothly. The original flooring was sheet linoleum. Sleek stylish and durable these trailers upgrade your tent to a full fledged house on wheels. Best insulation for vintage airstream deciding upon the best insulation for vintage airstream trailers is quite a tricky task do you go for the widely accepted approach of using foil bubble insulation do you go more traditional rock wool maybe sheep s wool or something a bit more high tech.

Best airstream alternatives to consider 2020 airstream trailers are instantly recognizable as an icon of american camping. They re pricey but they hold their value really well and they re everywhere because people love them. 12 thoughts on best flooring for an airstream or travel trailer mike. Hardwood aged nicely but was heavy laminate was durable but not waterproof bamboo was lightweight but susceptible to water damage vinyl was ideal but pretty toxic.

Airstream in the 1950 s built the trailer by stretching the insulation over the frame securing down the plywood floor installing the upper frame and outer skin shell and then installing the belly skin. Probably the best flooring to put down in an vintage airstream is marmoleom because it is seamless and waterproof. This is the literal ground you walk upon the foundation upon which the interior is built and in the case of airstreams a. The removed front floor sections hardly even usable as a template.

And we learned first hand. June 4 2020 at 5 45 pm hey there. When people talk with me about their greatest fear regarding the purchase of a vintage travel trailer inevitably the sub floor and water damage come up. When it came time to decide on flooring for our airstream we had no idea what to do.

Check out the marmoleum faqs. And with good reason. Airstream nameplate 1960s. I read good arguments for every type.