Vinyl Plank Flooring - TEMPLATE NEEDED? Tips, Tricks & YOUR Experiences, please

[The Bill Collector]

Anybody do there interior in the luxury woven vinyl flooring?
Our office through that down in the break room and just finished doing the cockpit in it from Corinthian. Stuff looks nice

Heads & Steps (plus helm & cockpit)

 

[370Dancer]

thanks for the pics

I have a few things I want to sort out, I think I am over thinking some of it

One of the issues I had was finding a trim for the step down in the mid cabin . Is this the style you used
https://flexiblemillwork.com/corner-mold.html

Yes, and I stained it as well. Has a light wood grain molded in. I used a gel stain so it would stay put.

 

[Maybe A Dancer]

OP UPDATE

Flooring project nearly complete

Some PO previously replaced the carpet

I removed 6,876,937,923 staples - both factory stainless and numerous PO staples in the hatches, sidewalls and steps

Replaced the side carpet first - then did the Home Depot vinyl plank flooring

Did not do a template. Simply fitted everything at the dock. Used the jigsaw to cut and a 4" grinder to do the fine trimming for curved (so many curves) edges.

Used a router to trim up the edges around the hatches AND the hatches themselves

The biggest challenge was to remove the non factory PO glue.

Would have been far easier to remove the factory glue that everyone complains about.

Ended up using an angle grinder and wore a mask - glue dust is EVERYWHERE, on the blinds, inside the closets, inside the drawers, in the cabin bilge areas - EVERYWHERE !

With the carpet gone there is a BIG GAP between the hatch openings and the hatches - rather than make new hatches I chose to fill the gap with PVC lumber, trimmed to fit

The project is nearly complete, still have to trim out the floor hatches.

I have an UNBELIEVABLE amount of hours into this project - and that is an understatement.

Will post more pix later

Here's a few:

BEST !

RWS

 

[370Dancer]

OP UPDATE

Flooring project nearly complete /QUOTE]

Been there, done that! If you would like to trim up the finish of the hatches, I suggest that you investigate "Johnny Corners", if they are still around. When I did mine, I just cut new hatches out of 3/4". and then put some composite lattice on the lip of the hatch to compensate for the lack of carpet. The corners and rail also hold the Allure on the top of the hatches.

 

[Saverio]

looks awesome!!!! I rushed mine in the spring. I'm going to take my time over the winter and do it over. it looks fine but I kno i can do better and I really want to use the Plasteak again. I was so close to ordering it again but the $300 delivery cost killed me. One thing that i did that helped was install hatch pulls on both sides so not to scratch the floor when you pull it up

 

[Maybe A Dancer]

I've since lined up some of the irregularities seen in the photos.

Trimmed out one hatch with PLASTEAK moulding

https://www.plasteak.com/plasteak-recycled-plastic-product/l-trim-for-flooring-6-ft-long-antique

The best part of the L trim is IT IS FLEXIBILE !

Each of the 8 steps is curved, as is the step down into the mid cabin.

Will update more photos later where this can be better seen.

Much smaller and less obvious, but boy, the JOHNNY CORNERS look good

BEST !

RWS

 

[mrsrobinson]

OP UPDATE

Flooring project nearly complete

Some PO previously replaced the carpet

I removed 6,876,937,923 staples - both factory stainless and numerous PO staples in the hatches, sidewalls and steps

Replaced the side carpet first - then did the Home Depot vinyl plank flooring

Did not do a template. Simply fitted everything at the dock. Used the jigsaw to cut and a 4" grinder to do the fine trimming for curved (so many curves) edges.

Used a router to trim up the edges around the hatches AND the hatches themselves

The biggest challenge was to remove the non factory PO glue.

Would have been far easier to remove the factory glue that everyone complains about.

Ended up using an angle grinder and wore a mask - glue dust is EVERYWHERE, on the blinds, inside the closets, inside the drawers, in the cabin bilge areas - EVERYWHERE !

With the carpet gone there is a BIG GAP between the hatch openings and the hatches - rather than make new hatches I chose to fill the gap with PVC lumber, trimmed to fit

The project is nearly complete, still have to trim out the floor hatches.

I have an UNBELIEVABLE amount of hours into this project - and that is an understatement.

Will post more pix later

Here's a few:

BEST !

RWS

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Very nice!!! And that's a lot of staples

 

[Saverio]

whats the total sq ft?

 

[NotHerDecision]

I love reading about all of the different techniques. Here is our teak and holly project that took 1 month and 1 day in our 460. The mess we made was unbelievable but we are finally getting it cleaned up.

 

[highslice]

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That looks amazing.

 

[dtfeld]

Thats awsome!! What product??

 

[Chris-380]

That looks amazing.

Looks amazing

What product is this, and what did you use on the hatch openings and actual hatches, it looks like a small trim piece

 

[NotHerDecision]

Its teak and holly. And it’s just teak trim on the hatches and openings.

 

[PlaneGuy]

Love to have that in my 340

 

[midexp]

I used Nautiflor. It’s made for boats so it has a non slip grip. And it’s waterproof.

 

[NotHerDecision]

Love to have that in my 340

You can definitely have it. Just need to find a boatwright who can do the work. Fairly typical stuff for a craftsman but it takes significant time and teak is about 40.00/board foot right now.

 

[Gazer44]

I used Nautiflor. It’s made for boats so it has a non slip grip. And it’s waterproof.

Beautiful- what did you use for the stair nosings?

 

[NotHerDecision]

It’s teak as well just screwed to the pine steps and hand fitted.

 

[The Bill Collector]

I used Nautiflor. It’s made for boats so it has a non slip grip. And it’s waterproof.

Looks very nice, are you going to be replacing the vertical carpet too ?

 

[NotHerDecision]

I did the vertical carpet trim in the salon with 4” teak. I’m not going to do the midcabin because I really don’t see the ROI. I probably will do the steps into the v berth bed but that’s another couple thousand bucks and 2-3 weeks so taking a break for now.