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- Location
- Prince William, VA
- RV Year
- 2020
- RV Make
- Newmar
- RV Model
- Ventana 4326
- RV Length
- 43
- TOW/TOAD
- 2020 Ford F-150
- Fulltimer
- Yes
A while back, I'd posted on someone else's thread about my plan to remove the carpet from our slide rooms and in order to get a perfect match, scan my spare floor tiles, organize them into a staggered layout in photoshop and then send that design off to be printed onto a sheet of vinyl flooring.
Well, that plan didn't turn out so well. I took the floor tiles to a print shop that said they could scan them over the phone. I got a call the next day saying they couldn't scan them because their process was to hang the tile and scan them with some contraption that requires the item to be hung. I assume it was just a really high resolution camera and then they would crop it in photoshop. Anyway, they called and said they didn't want to do it because the flooring tiles were so heavy and they didn't want to break one.
From there, I called some other businesses that had high resolution, large format flatbed scanners. None of them wanted to touch the project because of concerns over reproducing another company's intellectual property - eg. the flooring design. Next, I actually called Newmar, asked them where they got the tile, then called the dealer who contacted the manufacturer, asking if they would share the design files with me for a fee. Still came up empty handed.
Up until now, every time I saw a flooring center or home center, I'd pop in and see if they had anything that came even close to our main flooring that would work for replacing the carpet in the FWS. Last weekend, I happened across Floor & Decor while driving out to Cap World of Orlando to order my truck bed cap. Today I decided I'd pop in there and see what they had. It's a large store so I figured they'd probably have something close-ish but I have some major OCD when it comes to these things so I grabbed one of the spare flooring tiles for comparison purposes, put it in the truck and drove over. I walked in, headed over to the vinyl section and boom, on the very first aisle (of 6 aisles just of vinyl mind you)...
Well, that's pretty darn close but its a little brown, I thought. If I buy a few boxes and cherry pick, using the more grayish over the more brownish that could work. Decided to check the next aisles and voila...
Well that's pretty much perfect. Now the cool thing about Floor & Decor aside from it being a huge tile, stone and flooring store is that if you need to compare, you can take a whole piece home for just $5. Bring it back within 90 days and they'll give you your money back. So I took two pieces of each product home so we could lay them out and see what actually looked better against the rest of the tiles as I only had one with me and what do you know, the first one came out as a pretty much identical match.
All of this will go in the FWS and most will be covered by the theater seats, dinette booth and bunks so even if its not an absolute identical match, it's sure going to be really hard to tell the difference. So I'm all measured up, need about 5 boxes and we'll be ripping out the carpet really soon.
The challenge as always is going to be the transition. It won't be a perfectly flat transition and we're okay with that. I wondered if anyone knows if the transition strip Newmar uses for DSDP+ lines will work for here too, or is the gap between the slide and the floor significantly less with the HWH slides?
Well, that plan didn't turn out so well. I took the floor tiles to a print shop that said they could scan them over the phone. I got a call the next day saying they couldn't scan them because their process was to hang the tile and scan them with some contraption that requires the item to be hung. I assume it was just a really high resolution camera and then they would crop it in photoshop. Anyway, they called and said they didn't want to do it because the flooring tiles were so heavy and they didn't want to break one.
From there, I called some other businesses that had high resolution, large format flatbed scanners. None of them wanted to touch the project because of concerns over reproducing another company's intellectual property - eg. the flooring design. Next, I actually called Newmar, asked them where they got the tile, then called the dealer who contacted the manufacturer, asking if they would share the design files with me for a fee. Still came up empty handed.
Up until now, every time I saw a flooring center or home center, I'd pop in and see if they had anything that came even close to our main flooring that would work for replacing the carpet in the FWS. Last weekend, I happened across Floor & Decor while driving out to Cap World of Orlando to order my truck bed cap. Today I decided I'd pop in there and see what they had. It's a large store so I figured they'd probably have something close-ish but I have some major OCD when it comes to these things so I grabbed one of the spare flooring tiles for comparison purposes, put it in the truck and drove over. I walked in, headed over to the vinyl section and boom, on the very first aisle (of 6 aisles just of vinyl mind you)...
Well, that's pretty darn close but its a little brown, I thought. If I buy a few boxes and cherry pick, using the more grayish over the more brownish that could work. Decided to check the next aisles and voila...
Well that's pretty much perfect. Now the cool thing about Floor & Decor aside from it being a huge tile, stone and flooring store is that if you need to compare, you can take a whole piece home for just $5. Bring it back within 90 days and they'll give you your money back. So I took two pieces of each product home so we could lay them out and see what actually looked better against the rest of the tiles as I only had one with me and what do you know, the first one came out as a pretty much identical match.
All of this will go in the FWS and most will be covered by the theater seats, dinette booth and bunks so even if its not an absolute identical match, it's sure going to be really hard to tell the difference. So I'm all measured up, need about 5 boxes and we'll be ripping out the carpet really soon.
The challenge as always is going to be the transition. It won't be a perfectly flat transition and we're okay with that. I wondered if anyone knows if the transition strip Newmar uses for DSDP+ lines will work for here too, or is the gap between the slide and the floor significantly less with the HWH slides?
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