We installed high-end DIY flooring in our camper van conversion with L-Track and this video will show you step-by-step how we did it.
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➤DIY Sprinter Camper Van Electrical Install – Full Tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01F4QDVJUq0&t=1897s
➤DIY Camper Solar Wiring Diagrams: https://www.explorist.life/solarwiringdiagrams
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Timestamps
00:00 Introduction
00:31 Making a Floor Template
01:53 What is R-Sheathing?
02:28 Cutting the Flooring to Fit the Template
03:37 Flattening the Floor With Insulation Strips
06:06 Opting out of in-floor heating
06:56 Cutting Grooves for L-Track
07:43 Rough Cut Floor Covering
08:09 Secure the Floor in Place
08:32 Gluing the Floor Covering to the R-Sheathing
09:35 Bolting L-Track to the Floor
11:04 Installing Rear Step Trim
14:01 Building & Trimming the Side Step
18:15 Installing Front Lip Trim
19:25 Trim Spare Tire Lowering Mechanism
20:23 Final Results
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Wow I just got a van a want to put in a floor. Yours looks quite ideal but not sure I’ll go to same lengths as you.
Totally awesome craftsman’s installation! Very impressive. Thank you for the excellent narration of the project to.
How is the flooring working out? Any complaints?
it looks like you lost a lot of height with your raised floor. are you both short? what about tall people (over 1m90)?
blade in the table saw is smart, FUCKING SMART!
Next time simply take a can of polyurethane foam and spray in the grooves on the floor. Then you can simply cut it to level the height or use it to glue the floorboard to the floor…
Thanks for this instructive video, learned a lot of neat tricks, Cheers from Canada!
Thank you both! Well done.
Glad to find you guys wife and I plan on building out our sprinter as a mobile bike shop and eventually turn it into a camper the l track idea will allow for modifications easily
This have been a fun video to watch, great job and hope to see more from you down the road.
Nice work!
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in the process of watching the build
i like your content and presentation
beautiful workmanship… i’m semi surprised you didn’t countersink the 1/4” lip of the spare tire access port.. 😂
Very helpful video. Gave me a lot of ideas.
Was 3/8” insulation too thin? Hot knife seemed like way too much. I would think spray foam and then shaving it down would be less labor intensive and faster.
Lastly-why not get bigger angle iron and cut it down to the right height rather than a second piece under the first?
Finally someone who isnt sticking crappy bits of wood to the van metal work floor to "hold" the plywood floor down….
How did you choose where you wanted to have your L track and the spacing between the pieces?
My man brought out the hot knife to cut down the insulation strips … JEEZ what a BOSS
Just an info on Polyiso, its R value reduces as the weather gets colder. However seems to be an easy install.
air flow would have assisted in the R value, but using for sturdiness may b a good idea/ i LEFT MINE OPEN FOR AIR CIRCULATION
Did you screw in the rear trim piece to the floor or just to the subfloor?
doesn't going through the floor introduce MASSIVE cold bridges and undo the complete isolation? … (yeah it does i'm pretty sure)
thanks for the great tips though, materials and methods
anything worth doing is worth overdoing! quote of the year 🙂
Do you have a gasket on the inside of the sliding door that butts up to your floor and lower step? I have a sprinter work van that likes to accumulate screws and rock in the door slide track. Turns out that there is an update with a stiff open cell foam that sticks to the inside of the door skin so when the door is shut the foam gasket butts up to the step tread plate and keep rocks and screws from rolling around the tread plate and falling into the sliding track.
Damn…you guys have a supernatural level of patience. Good work.
I swear everything you guys is do is professional as hell, like attaching the L-Track was one of most beautiful parts of this video lol
Do you have the flooring layout and location for L Track in your website too? It will be good if you have it in the brown paper to sell.
i love the way you did the floor in that van, i'm going to do it same way , one question , what L-Track is that ? who makes that ? i like the way it drops in the channels and there's still some over hang on the sides , thank you in advance.
Great floor!
Ya gotta wear a mask 😷 please!!!
WHY? Did you cut from the center of your flooring goods instead of starting near one edge and thereby having wider, usable pieces of left overs?
It also reduces head room for us tall guys…but not much.
Great job Steph
Sometimes being too smart can be quite slow. But end result is still great!
Zipwall would not be my choice. It doesn't hold screws well at all, like any other particle board. And if you let it soak it will start falling apart. Regular plywood would have a better resistance to soaking and can actually hold screws. So to anyone watching, unless you got the zipwall free, then look at some 1/2" cabinet or marine grade ply first!
I'm looking at bolting L track to my Sprinter floor and, looking at the underside, the outside edges of the van are open and clear but the next bays inward have the muffler with heat shield on one side and the gas tank on the other. It doesn't look like you dropped these for bolt access so just wondering how this was dealt with.
great job <3
Love the blade in the table saw hack. Sped up my cargo trailer conversion significantly, used to do with a track saw.
Excellent !
Hello. Tell me how the car is painted from the inside. Thank you.
very nice. thank you for the video
When the holes were drilled thru the floor that killed any interest for me.
gave osha the finger took menout 😂
Excellent video! What van seats will you be mounting in the van? I'm considering doing a similar install.
CAD = Cardboard aided design. fucking dead mate.
Wow all of the things poor people that live out of Vans have, yea Not
planning out truck sleeper ac and dc wireing system i have inverter for now would like to upgrade wattage to over1500 w as needed would like to run off alternater when on road and shore plug when parked. needs to run small fridge small microwave laptop 3 wall plugs for grinder and kettle coffee. can i get feed back on layout, parts, and wire sizes thankyou must be very durable
Thankfully you didn’t give osha a finger 😂
This is a great floor design! Props!