Of course you could dropped the truck in Joplin,Mo, with the "Trick My Truck " yahoos. They seem to be able to a lot of silly stuff inside cabs.
Not that wood flooring is silly, they could have installed disco lights or something for you.
But hey, you gave it a shot, more than I would do.
Pergo type flooring in a truck
Discussion in 'Ask An Owner Operator' started by Brickman, Sep 18, 2007.
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I would love for them to trick me out a 007 truck. But since my application to the show aint producing any results I could sure use an interest free extended payment plan grant right about now. Could you hook a bro up????
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I would be afraid that in the winter or in the rainy seasons, it'd get discolored from the water/mud off your shoes?
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Man that is going to look sharp.
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I hope i can help a little, ive been a pro installer of flooring for 20 yrs. doing a career change into the trucking industry. I would recommend not running the wood into the seating area at all, the heat let off from the tranny in the cab area will cause the floor to expand greatly, that would require leaving expansion gaps at every point you have something going through the wood. (seat bolts, pedals, gear shift...etc...) makes for a bad look, you can improve the look somewhat by using a matching color caulking, but it still wont look great. Keep the wood in the sleeper use an end or carpet transition piece to go against the carpet if you have a step then get a stair molding piece, it will cap the edge of the wood and the step. Keep a 1/4 inch gap at all surfaces that the wood will go against.
Pergo makes an end molding that you can order to go against these surfaces covering the gap. Without these expansion gaps the floor will buckle and then seperate. Good Luck -
Thanks, maybe that will help some body else. I gave up on it for my truck. With the joints being snap together there is entirely too much stuff to go around and if you get a nice fit then its far too tight to be able to snap the pieces together.
One question I had is does laminate flooring really expand and contract that much in a 6x6 area??????????? -
The only thing I have noticed, is that our Pergo has expanded in one spot: a spot where liquid was being spilled on a fairly consistent basis ( From our old dog who had become incontinent).
If you got pergo behind your pedals (and in front of the seat), odds are that in that area you would get swelling.
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