Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 10:03:38 -0700
Reply-To: Doug in Calif <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET>
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From: Doug in Calif <vanagon@ASTOUND.NET>
Subject: Re: Mrs. Squirrel gets nice (NOT) floors in Mellow Yellow.
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Gotta differ with ya there George,
The new laminate flooring products are much better than you are thinking.
The surface is so hard it will dull a new carbide blade in my 10" Bosch chop
saw, when doing a flooring job with the stuff.
The patterns now available are off the chart, everything from beautiful
woods to tile and stone that look so real
you will be blown away. It does not absorb moisture through its surface
easily at all, coffee stains wipe right up days later.
If you really want to keep out moisture glue the joints with exterior wood
glue when you lay it down.
It sweeps out super easy, tough as nails, sure you can scratch it with a
rock if you try hard, but its very very durable.
It locks together in 8" sections and can be put together and taken apart
quite easily.
Its also CHEAP to buy, and you can change the color or pattern in your westy
every 2-3 years which is kind of cool.
Doug
----- Original Message -----
From: "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 9:19 AM
Subject: Re: Mrs. Squirrel gets nice (NOT) floors in Mellow Yellow.
> In a message dated 6/16/05 11:19:27 AM, j.michael.elliott@GMAIL.COM
writes:
>
> << looks very, very nice. We especially like the café curtains! >>
>
> I guess I'll have to be the lone voice of dissent (surprised?) on this
> number. I think it looks like . . . gotta be careful here . . . well,
like what it
> is - dreck. It's a result of the same mentality which gives us those
RV's
> outfitted like Mediterranean styled (excuse me while I puke) rolling
bordellos.
> Just like shag carpeting, cheap phenolic laminates on chipped wood
substrates
> have no place in a proper car regardless of what the boyz at West Coast
> Customs say. That flooring is known as a "floating" floor system for a
reason: it
> sucks up humidity like a sponge so if it can't float, it heaves. And, I
bet
> that stuff is just peachy keen to tread upon whenever you have some snow
or
> whatever surprise your dog left in your yard sticking in your Vibrams.
>
> Other than for Soccer Mom service, I think that carpeting in a van also
> sucks. Over the past 16 years I have chosen to go with rubber matting in
four vans
> and I could not be happier with the performance or the aesthetics. My
> current matting was cut from a 6' X 8' foot utility mat which is just like
the
> pickup truck bedliner made by a company in Ohio. Counting the ribbing on
the front
> and the drainage tits on the back, it is about 3/8" thick and tougher than
> the doornails of hell. I have the stuff custom fitted to the front,
middle and
> rear. Since I didn't have to glue and screw it in place, I can pop it
out,
> blast it off and then it is like new.
>
> Cafe curtains? What can I say?
>
> George
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