Carpet out, Hardwood in!

Replacing the carpet in our 5th wheel.


Kids, pets, work boots, mud, dust, and more kids. Our carpet which I am sure had to be the cheapest carpet known to mankind, had taken quite a bit of abuse in 2 years. It was tramped down, dirty, and if I am going to be honest, it stunk!

So we got a wild hair and instead of me continuing to shampoo it every week (which I highly recommend against doing) we pulled it out! it was fairly easy pulling the carpet out. It had a thin pad underneath of it, and was only really attached around the edges. Once the carpet was out we placed a thin barrier and started laying snap in laminate.


Progress

We ended up choosing a laminate that came in 3 different sizes, that way we could try to eliminate cutting as much as possible with all of the funky angels we had to deal with. After about 4 hours we had it all in and all of the dust vacuumed up. We love how it turned out! We even tried moving the slides in right after wards to make sure we didn't have any issues, and all was fine!



Final transformation

 After looking at the photo you might notice we also tore out the bar. When we first got our trailer, we though the bar was a great little extra seating/storage area. And it was in the beginning, but now that we had two kids it just became in the way. The kids always had to run around it, and taking it out helped create an open floor space again. It was attached pretty dang well, but after a little pulling and hammering Hubby got it to come loose!

Well, that's our carpet to laminate floor transformation. If you are thinking about redoing your floors in your trailer of 5th wheel and have any questions leave a comment and I will help with what I can! Thank for reading :)