Carpet Removal

[MapNerd]

Edit: I started this reply really just wanting to say I'm anxious to see what you come up with and how your mod turns out. Not sure how I got into the above. Sounds like you have a nice plan and I look forward to your end results.

Don’t worry @Neal. It shall be shared here. I think it’s going to turn out awesome but we’ll seee....WE’LL ALL SEE!

...and now back to our regularly scheduled programming of @sunshyn’s carpet replacement.

 

[Jim]

So I’m also ramping up to do this as well as we absolutely despise carpet with a completely irrational passion. If there’s one thing MapNerd hates, it’s carpet in almost any form. Rugs are okay.

Anyway, I’ll share my approach in case it helps anyone else. Our rig is new and as such, we have tile on the main floor and carpet in the slides. However, we really only have carpet in the FWS as the kitchen slide and bedroom slides are covered by cabinets and the bed so there’s no carpet there at all. We considered installing laminate or even engineered but ran into two problems:
1. It’s really hard to find a good match to Newmar’s tile unless you’re using that tile
2. The Ventana has electric slides and as a result, my slideroom floor is not flush with the main floor. It’s raised by about a 1/4” - 1/2”, so installing any laminate, tile or hardwood in there, no matter how thin is going to make that transition worse.

So what I’ve done is taken the 4 extra tiles I got from Newmar when I picked up my rig, and I took them to an industrial printing business where they have massive, high quality scanners. Triangle Reprographics in Orlando is scanning the pattern of each of my four tiles as we speak.

Once I have those tile images, I’m going to toss them into graphics editor on my computer (eg. Photoshop) and create an very, very large image - one the length and width of my FWS. I will paste those images into the graphic, repeating them in the same pattern as the main floor, a basic 1/2 offset pattern. I’ll space each image 3/16” from each other, end to end and side to side and set the background color of the image to the same color as my main floor’s grout and I’ll randomize the four tile patterns so that the same tile is never next to itself in the image. This will give me a nice little image of a floor with my exact tiles.

Then, I’ll send that image to Graphic Image Flooring where it will be printed onto a vinyl flooring sheet, rolled up and sent to me. I’ll then unroll it, let it acclimate inside the rig for a day. Remove the furniture, then the carpet, clean the floor, trim the vinyl and glue it down, trim out the edge of the slide floor, then reinstall the furniture.

Wow, I am truly impressed.

 

[MapNerd]

Wow, I am truly impressed.

Thanks @Jim. Just wait until you see how impressively I mess it up though...

 

[Jim]

Thanks @Jim. Just wait until you see how impressively I mess it up though...

Something tells me that's not going to happen. Would love to see some before and after pic's though.

 

[Sunshyne]

Map Nerd:
That’s an impressive amount of planning so I think it will turn out fine.

 

[MapNerd]

Womp womp.

I've been stymied! Got a call from Orlando Reprographics this morning. They don't think they can scan the tiles because their large format scanner requires the item being scanned to be hung and the tiles are too heavy for that. They referred me to another business that does fine art scanning, but they are saying I need permission from the manufacturer before they will do it because they are concerned about a copyright infringement - which I understand.

So I've reached out to Newmar to ask for the manufacturer info and will see if I can get permission to duplicate the tile patterns for personal use.

 

[BuckyII]

Womp womp.

I've been stymied! Got a call from Orlando Reprographics this morning. They don't think they can scan the tiles because their large format scanner requires the item being scanned to be hung and the tiles are too heavy for that. They referred me to another business that does fine art scanning, but they are saying I need permission from the manufacturer before they will do it because they are concerned about a copyright infringement - which I understand.

So I've reached out to Newmar to ask for the manufacturer info and will see if I can get permission to duplicate the tile patterns for personal use.

What about taking a high quality photograph?

 

[MapNerd]

What about taking a high quality photograph?

I am thinking about that. We have a cannon camera that I got my wife for Christmas a few years ago after she begged for one for months and then only used a handful of times.

The trick is going to be getting a near NADIR shot.

 

[MapNerd]

Sent an email to Newmar, they put me in touch with their vendor whom I contacted. They are going to reach out to the manufacturer which owns the copyright and see if they would be willing to send me the pattern images or give me a letter of permission to reproduce for personal use. So now we wait...