VW Bus Floor Installation- with more information..

Quick video of my VW Bus floor installation, has some information that might be useful..

The Bus gets a new floor - a hard wood floor.

So with the inside painted.
It was time to insulate the floor and lay some hard wood floor.


For the sub flooring,
I used this 1/4 brown board.
I bought a 4x8 sheet.
It didn't fit in the van.
(Mazda MPV)









It was pointed out that the
wood would not fit by several
Genius's, including the dude in
the picture.
I had a problem.
How to get the wood to the Bus.








Solution.
Thanks, Scott.
He came to help me.
He gave me a "what are you going to do look."










Here's the floor insulation.
It's foil backed insulation.
The pink side is very thick and fibrous.
It was also easy to cut.
I let it warm, to make it easier to work with.
I'm going to lay it on the floor and attach
the brown board to it. Spray adhesive is your friend here.







I cut the insulation to fit.
I used the adhesive on the rear panel.

The floor insulation is NOT glued to floor.
I want the floor to be removable.









The hardest part of my new
floor installation, is going to be the floor cut outs.
I used the original floor mat to trace the floor
openings in the foil insulation, brown board, and later the hardwood flooring.








Here's the order so far.
1. Insulation- no glue
2. Brown Board- glue on the bottom.
* Spray the bottom of the Brown board and the top of the foil insulation.
Sandwich them together.
The hard wood will be laid down next.







I have 3 boxes of Bruce Hardwood Flooring.
Thanks Dad.
Very nice flooring.
I'm going to lay the floor out to test fit and trim
what I need.
I'll lay the mat over top and trace the floor openings.
I'll cut them out and the lay the floor in place.
I'll use liquid nails to glue the floor to the brown board.




Here's the test fit so far.
The edge will be filled in later.















I'm reallly liking this floor. Hardwood flooring is going to work very well with wood panels.
I'll install them soon.

Time to make my list. The bus needs a new interior.

I decided to take a trip with my girls to Lowe's.
Lowe's Home Improvement has everything. I prefer Lowe's over Home Depot.
I like the way Lowe's is laid out.
You can find things in areas that make sense.
I don't like having to walk from one side of the store to the other.
The people who work at Lowe's are nicer and more helpful.
The goal was to figure out what the interior was going to look like.
Also to determine what materials I would need to start the interior.
I made the decision to make the bus interior out of wood.
The bus will have a Surf Woody Bus feel to it.
Wood panels, curtains, a simple floor plan.
This was a fact finding mission, and a good way to kill a couple of hours.
Here's Some Pictures-


The paint scheme for the bus is going to be
tow tone white over red. I may paint the bus my self. There's an interesting website where a gentleman painted his Corvair for $50.00.
I believe it's called the $50. Dollar paint job.
He used rollers and thinned the paint.
He layered many coats and wet sanded.
It does not look that bad.










This red paint is great.
The shade is familiar.































Most VW Buses don't really have insulation. The interior of the bus needs to be insulated. The trick is to not use anything that will cause problems later on. I'm going to use the foil backed insulation in the interior voids in the rear of the bus. I'll also use the pink Styrofoam stuff
as was done earlier. The bus needs to be warm and quiet.



























I don't know what this thing is, but it scared
her. It conducts loud goofy noises very well.
My youngest was slightly amused.






















The interior panels may be this type of panel.
I like the pine and wood grain.













Buckets have many uses.
My oldest.
She's eyeing that steel
bucket. Why, I don't know.



















The floor will be wood flooring. Wood panels, and floor.
Surf Woody Bus. It will be nice.














The trip was productive. I know what the
interior will be like. I have a rough idea of
I'm going for. More later.