Sub-Floor

Our post from January 26 talked about us working on the kitchen floor beams and sub-floor. Since then we've worked on a variety of things and finally came back to finish the sub-floor. We had left the sub-floors not glued to floor beams because we still had to run the electrical wires and water pipes below them.

Jerud had created an electrical layout diagram that we would use.

We started with the wires for the floor heaters.

Drilling a hole for where the wire for the first floor heater will come out.

Hole!

Pulling the chunk of wood out of the drill bit.

Using a guide to create a shallow channel for the heater wires to lay across the floor without getting crushed.

Where the wires will lay.

We placed two plastic pipes underneath the subfloors to help guide the heater electrical cords to where the thermostat will be. We put a string in one end of the pipe.

And used a vacuum to suck the string out the other end of the pipe. Then we stuck the string down the white pipe.

And vacuumed it out the other end of the white pipe. We used the string to actually pull the wires through.

View from the top.

Then we installed the water pipe from where the fresh water tank will be (under the bedroom in the basement) to the kitchen sink.

We shoved a solid plastic pipe below the sub-floor to where the fresh water tank will be in the basement. Then inserted the actual water pipe through the other pipe. The PVC water pipe is too flimsy to work with in this case..

Bending the water pipe into position so it will be in the right spot for the kitchen sink.

Holes were placed in the floor beams so the pipes would be held in place and out of the way.

Next we pulled the electrical wires for the rest of the RV through to its rightful places.

Remember to label wires or else it'll suck when you forget what they are!

The wires placed where they will be needed.

Like the water pipes, holes were drilled through the beam for the wires.

To ensure the wires don't rub against the wood and potentially get cut, we placed pieces of PVC pipes in-between them and the wood.

Using DAP to hold the PVC pieces in place.

We used Great Stuff to fill in the A/C and heater vents that we are leaving in place.

The vent before Great Stuff.

Vent in the kitchen filled with Great Stuff.

Vent in front of the pantry that sits behind the dinette seat.

We used the original insulation (ones still in good condition) that was taken out of the RV and was boxed up until now, to insulate the kitchen floor.

We stapled the underbelly wrap to get the beams ready for the sub-floor.

We used a beam to hold up the sub-floor so Jerud could put Liquid Nails down and I could take photos.

Sub-floor down for good.

Water pipes and electrical wires coming out of the sub-floor.

After the sub-floor was in, we finished stapling the underbelly wrap on each side of the kitchen. Then we installed a new stud on each side where the wall beams of the kitchen will sit on top of.

A week later we sealed the sub-floors where we wouldn't be placing laminate flooring over or may have a high chance being exposed to water, ex: kitchen cabinets, under the dinette, bedroom, sink and under the shower pan.