#15 BUILD PAGE FIVE - 6 APRIL, 2024
WHAZAMMO & THE GILLIG
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AFT FLOORING:
As I have said earlier, there are many options and applications for doing your deck/floor, cost, the climate, and practicality all enter in... as is time.... time is as serious a restraint as cost.
For "my" situation, we decided to go inexpensive, conservative R factor, and fast...
Because we live on a boat, and have no mini-warehouse, the bus is our storage, as we depopulate the boat (to sell), and remove our personal items... the stuff goes inside the bus !
Other than our daily living needs, the boat is now de-personalized to around 90%, and almost everything we own is now either aboard the Gillig or in the tool van. We stumble over it all inside the Gillig to work, for flooring, and needing to do floor prep, and cutting, this is really designed for tile or planks, not sheet vinyl. fun... the combined aft berthing/bath/storage cabinet area is a 12 foot fore-to-aft factory raised floor area in the Gillig, to empty it all forward was a real treat...
Once empty, the area (again) was soap scrubbed, disinfected, and then dried out before crawling every square inch to visually inspect for loose flooring, high/low spots, holes, penetrations, and level.... using butyl underwater caulk, "I" will do a full perimeter caulk, fill holes, and use Armstrong floor fill for low spots, and disc grinder off high spots, the Gillig used problematic rubber matting with ribs U U U , you know the stuff... I am ignoring that.
Last thing, use a wet terry cloth rag hand wipe it all down to be sure no loose junk is present, I then "get in the mood" and recall the lost techniques of vinyl laying by laying Roberts "black jack" sheeting (et-trimmed fit, and taped, as a condensate guard, and to start the floor leveling.
Prices (in 2024) on "walk-on" foam sheet goods 50 psi + compressive stuff is over $120.00 a sheet (96 sq. ft.) here in Oregon, the R value is around 10 on most of that stuff (which is great), Whazammo chose to go with high density weight lifters foam flooring, it supports refrigerators, 250 pound monster people, and dropping 500 pound barbells... it comes in 3/4" thick 24 x 24 interlocking squares (not the diamond plate looking stuff... flat !), R value is around 4-5 @ below $1.00 a square foot.
By the time you have the Black Jack down and fitted, and then have cut and fit the gym floor, your expertise in measuring, cutting, and fitting should be ready for the sheet vinyl...
I am broke, so, I am cutting a few corners (that you should not), beginning with the foam sheeting, if you can afford it do it, on laying vinyl I have always done a curl, or wrap at the walls, a 2" curl up the wall sets you up for spills... sand, water, animal hair (or worse) and forever helps eliminate food or smells, roaches, on and on from getting between the wall and floor juncture. Here, I will net cut then caulk.
The Gillig has a 35 foot fore-aft total floor length (12 foot of which are an 18" raised floor area) vinyl goods (cheap vinyl) mostly comes in 12 foot widths, normally I do a one continuous (no seam) lay, the raised floor and two steps makes for two pieces needed (a 2 foot and a 23 foot), so, my first order of 12 foot goods was for 8 foot laid sideways.
NOTE There is only one deck penetration in this berthing/bath area (the toilet hole)... I always try to "NEVER" penetrate an overhead (roof) or deck surface-- choosing always to go through vertical bulkheads (walls) to eliminate water intrusion, this single toilet floor-flange hole is an exception... the soft 3/4" gym floor under the toilet will be replaced with a 3/4" plywood pad through-screwed and caulked for the toilet ring to be solidly mounted on. (the special method of doing drain and water supply lines and piping on the GILLIG will come in a separate later posting).
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