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thank you hey guys welcome back to the live stream today we're going to be talking about uh
our floor install that we've been doing on the Ford Transit right behind me and uh the next three days we're going to be
doing a couple live streams today we're doing the floor install so it's not the
complete install uh but I want to show you the AVC rig template that you can purchase on their website there's no
affiliation in this video this is just good helpful tips for you guys doing your DIY van build
and uh something that I think would help you guys out so the floor install kind of like a part one
we'll talk about today in this live stream the next one we're going to do the seat install so we get a Friedman
flip and fold seat that we put in the van we've already drilled the holes and stuff like that so we'll go over that
tomorrow and then Friday we're going to talk about the cro t-vent window install
so that window is the one right behind me so it's the driver's side
and uh that was an interesting install um so definitely a couple things that I
want to talk to you guys about uh some tweaks that I had to do to it because if
you see behind me it is within the adventure wagon system and I had to purchase a separate panel
uh to trim out this window however it didn't go the way that I
planned it to go so you guys get to see how I fix that
um I'll give you a teaser before we actually do it the way I fixed it was I made three templates so a template of
the outside of the plastic bump out that you can purchase from them
um and then I templated that around the window uh I templated the template if that
makes any sense so that I could get the final uh piece
so it looks like this
so I made this piece but it took me a long process to get it made but this
process uh since I went through the pain of figuring out how to do it it'll be really easy for you guys to uh to pick
up on this you can use this for making any type of uh window to cover the stuff you don't
want to see in the window so for example the window behind me this trim where the
bolts and stuff that hold the serial window in that transition from there to this plastic bump out
we want to cover that um so I'll spend about five seconds showing you what I'm talking about
so I'm gonna go put this up to the window we'll get back to floor install in just
a second okay so what I'm going to do is I'm just
going to hold this template up to the window and show you how this is going to cover it and then when I finally get
this done and upholstered that'll be a another live stream that we we go over this
so just a little quick teaser on how you can cover up that transition Gap and uh
use it to make custom bump outs all right so back to our
scheduled programming for the floor install
all right let's check out let me pull this up I'm gonna go through the pictures first
and then I have a couple of GoPro videos of me actually working with a template
and I'm just going to talk over them seems to be the the easiest way to get you guys this video without doing a full
video edit hence the live stream um let's see here
all right so we go over the computer if you guys can check this out we have
our uh AVC rig template so I'm going to zoom
in essentially this is a a big if you guys have ever worked with blueprints or
engineering drawings uh a printer called a plotter is what actually prints something this big
and what they've done is they've pretty much taken the plot that they've done to CNC cut these uh
floor panels and put it on a piece of paper and just printed it out and put it in the package
that you can buy so it's really really simple so what are we talking about what the
heck is this template let's go to uh let's see here
let me find what I want to talk about
all right so Adventure vehicle Concepts is a company we're going to head on over to their website
again no affiliation uh I just like the some of the products that they make
you may have seen uh so they do roof racks uh they do
flooring systems stuff like that if we go to their store go to Van type
and we have our high roof 148 so they're typically a Transit based uh
business but the accessories that they have
is this fluorine system so I found this about a year and a half ago
and this is a insulated pre-cut out flooring system it's pretty rare to find
these um now there's a caveat to this I will explain uh about this floor stuff that I
like and don't like because uh I have installed this floor
you might have seen that in a past video so you get a threshold kit for the door
and some trim pieces for the front and the back it looks really nice when it's installed
if you do have the Ford factory seats uh in the rear so
like a crew van for example they have the cutouts for the seat
retainers pre-done so you can select if you want them or not but essentially if you look at this
floor what they've done is they've taken insulated home sheathing system so the Zip system
so if you guys are any Builders out there contractors you'll be familiar with the Zip system
just exterior sheathing so uh for the exterior of a house
and they actually make one that has an integrated uh insulated
um I don't want to say core uh let's see here I'm gonna get I'm
gonna get a sample that I have in the shop that'll be easier
hmm okay there we go
all right guys so this piece that I'm holding my hand right here this let's see what
there we go so this is the rear piece of the top off a Thomas's van we didn't use this
because he has a uh aluminum ramp so I had to cut it off even to have enough room for the ramp
transition to be comfortable but essentially this is a zip system so the same thing that you're seeing
um on the screen here same thing this is the rear rear piece
all right and the back of it is what they're not
showing so right here this is the back so the back this is uh the foam you see how there's
uh it's about one inch of foam right here and then a half inch of the sheathing
and what they do is they CNC the wood and then they go in and they see and see
these reliefs right here for the uh the corrugations and the floor floor of the
transit um what I like about this floor is if you're a diyer you don't want to mess
with uh you know mapping out taping everything what you
can do is just buy the floor system and just put it in but when you put this floor system in uh
the way to actually adhere to the floor um is interesting I'm not going to go
through that but uh I've noticed that these right here if
they could they could if they could dial them in a little bit better as far as uh how they touch the floor because they're
a little high I would like them a little bit lower so they actually touch the corrugations
um however that might be the way they just have to do it in the shop but other than that uh you can go online and they'll explain
to you the uh the insulation installation process but
anyway it has a foam on the back CNC cut out Zip system all right
okay let's get back over here we have the website so you guys got an idea of
how this system is actually put together
um different pieces okay so you guys got an understanding of the floor so let's
go back to the photos that I have
okay so this is where we left off and this is the template process
so if you don't want to buy this system
so the flooring system itself thank you then what you can
do because the floor system it is pretty expensive 2500 as of filming this they have a they have
a secondary product so you can go in here to High roof 148
scroll down and the problem that I was solving with
purchasing this uh pattern kit is I'm going to be cutting a lot of holes
in the flooring system behind me so I have this flip and fold seat that's going to
be in the back that I'll talk about in another live stream I have an in-floor shower pan that goes in and then I'm
possibly going to cut out and Notch out the uh section about a half an inch of
plywood for the 40 gallon water system so I'm removing a lot of wood from the
floor and uh cutting up that brand new floor system
doesn't really make sense I've already got the supplies in the shop to build the floor obviously since
it's already in and so this templating kit is what you can buy and essentially it's just
you know big engineering paper that's been printed on with a plotter and it's
going to allow you to cut out your own pieces
and for me as a builder I can reuse these pieces for Future Ford transits
and I don't have to keep making templates in the shop to uh you know reuse and reuse it's just paper
if it does get damaged I can buy another kit so um
so if you notice it says 600 so make sure you go here and select your
appropriate uh you know application so for example High
roof 148 is what we were using it for it defaults to a wall kit so the wall kit includes these aluminum pieces so
what we want to do is uh actually we want to select the right one
let me back up there we go they've got the same picture for both
of these that's confusing um okay floors not walls floors there we go
okay now we're talking so they have the floor size so make sure
you choose the right floor size 148 is the van that I have 148 extended is
different it's going to have the uh extended section so
the van that's longer behind the wheelbase so 148 is what I purchased it was 225
and what you're going to get is uh the crew seat track location preferred L
track location spare tire access location and then you're gonna get three pieces
of paper the 148 extension is extended it's gonna be four pieces
so this is the kit and we are going to show you what I did with it
so the first thing that I did is
uh let's get the right video here
okay all right so this is the piece of paper
um what you didn't see in this video is I went ahead and took a razor and cut it out so these templates are not
pre-cut out you do have to cut and Trace all the lines out um but that's okay that makes sense
then as you go through here you're going to see that you want to go ahead and
line it up to where you make the least amount to least amount of cuts
so I'm going to fast forward let's see fast forward
all right so that was the end of that explanation let's see
okay so the first step was to go ahead and roll it out
now notice I have two of the long sides so this is going to change with
each piece that you're cutting so if you cut the front section you're going to have two nice strong edges the
middle section you might only have one reference Edge and then the final piece you might have another reference as what
I'm talking about is a place where you can cheat and just move the paper template right to the line of the wood
and not make a cut depending if you reply with it you're getting is nice and true
now you will have to get three sheets of four by plywood for this application
uh there's obviously not enough wood to make multiple cuts on one piece so you
are going to have to sacrifice about a third of the plywood and just use it for something else
but once you get everything taped down and Mark your line out my recommendation
would be to get a track saw to cut the straight lines and then cut as many
straight lines with the track saw as you can limit yourself to the jigsaw if possible
if you don't have a track saw you can use a skill saw and then what I've done is I'm using a
multi-tool to actually cut out these notches instead of a jigsaw uh but later I think
I actually changed to a jigsaw yep I do
and yep just cut it out and that's it I mean it's that easy to get a panel ready
to go another recommendation I have with uh
with DIY it may be challenging to get good Lumber so uh sometimes I buy lumber depending
on how much I need to build or cut out and I buy it ahead of time and I've actually changed my mind on that because
by the time you get it from Lowe's or Home Depot bring it back to the house if the conditions change so quickly so pick
a day that you're going to actually cut the wood out and then have that day be the day that you buy the wood because I
had some problems with a couple pieces warping uh just because they've been
sitting in my shop for a couple weeks um so what what for what it's worth uh might be a little Pro tip for you
so next up let's go to um let's see here
let me find the next video
so the next thing you want to do is when you cut out your template uh this is
another way you can kind of cheat lay your insulation your foam insulation
underneath it and put the piece of wood on there go ahead and wait it down
um I actually use these Ford um brake disc and
uh these rotors and they actually holds everything down really nice and then I just go ahead with a multi-tool and I go ahead and just cut the foam it's the
easiest way to do it you don't have to draw a trace just really quick and then once you cut that all out
now you have your floor four floor panel and your uh your top piece
let's see in the next process that we're going to do
see here
so I went ahead and laid in the front piece the middle piece and then let's see do I
go ahead hey here we go if you have a mid-roof so just a pro tip
if you have a mid roof this is going to be more challenging uh it was challenging at Thomas's van because it was a mid-roof and
the way that you have to move and tilt the pieces into place is kind of challenging because
the height it's kind of messing with you if you have a high roof it's much easier the first panel goes in the second panel is
a little weird that middle panel but notice the back here
you will have to make some additional trim trimming uh additional cuts on this
because depending on like where the glue uh from Ford is around the wheel wells
and the sides or like a plastic body fitting remove all that sounds kind
of obvious but uh the good thing is the way that they measured ABC rig measured this is it it's extremely precise to the
point where it actually might be too tight in some location so you need to go ahead and find out where it's tight trim
it off and you can do that with a foam piece it's easier to modify the foam piece and then
um you know translate that to the piece of wood so that's pretty much what I did
um let's see here there we go when you get your all your pieces cut
you want to make sure that when you're care you really need somebody to help you with this but I was
just by myself um because you don't want to really Dent up the foam
uh but once you get it in there it should just lay right in and then you can go ahead and get
everything nice and put together
and then the back side uh what I would do
all right let me turn this down
see was that audio on the whole time no
uh is go ahead and put a piece of tape on each of the seams and I don't
actually so the floor is it's a half inch plywood and then one inch foam and this is the
formula formula uh 150 it's a R5 insulation it's the pink stuff
uh it's from Home Depot I don't actually like what Lowe's uses
uh the plywood that I used this is a sanded plot let's see what's the name of
that
foreign
so the ply it's a revolution ply
and it's at Lowe's they do have some at Home Depot it's the
sand it's like s-a-n-d-e Supply here I'll look it up real quick
um let's see here
it is half inch though sanded ply
all right so I'm gonna leave it on the screen here Nova is wanting a ball I need to go get
it for there you go so take a look at that that's what I
yeah I'll put this in the comments so that we it's half inch
uh four by eight
and it's the
and the sanded plywood is going to vary between you know like different manufacturers
um like Lowe's has their own brand of sanded plywood Home Depot has their own banana sanded plywood
um I would not get to been out of scrape about not getting Baltic Birch for your build because
you know there's different places around the U.S uh when I initially started I tried to go ahead and purchase you know
Balto Birch and have all this shipped and it's just shipping cost just not it doesn't make sense
just just go to your local just go to your local uh Lowe's
um the next thing let's go into right
this is the troublemaker
um so I'm going to show you a picture of what it looks like currently
let's see here
so you can see this uh it's it's extremely precise even these edges
right here the way it cuts in very precise um even around the wheel wells they just
do a really good job with the the measures the measurements they took to get this floor going
and again if you want to um go to the website and actually
get the main flooring system you can
because it does include this box right here if you get the
this little threshold piece and the trim kit this thing's awesome now I was able to use uh the one that we
had on Thomas's band he had he didn't need it because what we did is for his uh wheelchair access we had to
extend the floor out and so I couldn't use this and so we just um
I got this from him and I'm using it in the van behind me but they do sell
this floor step the floor step and trim kit separately
um it's expensive but I have looked online
all over the place to try to find a floor trim kit that is made as good as
this one and this one is it's just done extremely well there's other ones that are from
you know companies that you know they do like HVAC Vans uh
let's see what else you know electrical electrician Vans painters Vans and they're just they're not of the quality
they're really flimsy this is extremely strong uh it covers everything nice and clean
uh and the powder coat is is really it's done really well on there because uh
yeah I haven't actually scratched it up just walking in and out of the van a bunch of times
but yeah the trim step you can get separately so you can get that and then you can get
the drawing um
it does kind of push you to you know it's about a thousand something for that so let's see what that is that is
let's see step and trim so
right rear that's 875
that's 1100 for the paper cut out in the step so you get 1100 versus 2500 so some
people might just go ahead and opt in to get the uh floor system because you're already kind
of halfway there but for me I'm cutting so many holes into this piece it doesn't make sense for me to buy this kit
um let's go back to some questions do you know if that trim kit will work with the AMF smart floor
I don't know that I don't know the thickness of the AMF smart floor
what I can tell you is let's go to the drawing pad real quick
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to draw really quick the um
I'm going to show you how the floor does the floor transition works and then you can kind of gauge if that's going to
work uh the AMF floor smart floor do you know if it lays on top of the van
corrugations or is it actually notched out so it sits flush with them so lower
um let me know if you know that while I'm getting this little drawing board up
okay all right so let's see if you guys can see me here let me make my picture
bigger all right check this out
so you look at my screen I'm gonna draw this is the bottom
of the Ford Transit floor and then we've got these uh corrugations
that I keep talking about so
the trim kit uh as I have it right now in the van
is allowing me to uh can I zoom in uh zoom in
see here so this distance here I have one inch of foam
so this is the foam and then I have a half inch
and this is uh the wood okay so that
this and this is obviously way overdone and it's just to
show you the difference here but say this is your wood and then
this is your insulation
right there so you got an inch and a half total and then the trim piece on the outside
I'm gonna make that red so the trim piece you buy
comes over like this
and then the step itself comes down like that
okay so what you have here is you've got
um you guys can see my cursor if you do one inch of insulation on top
of the corrugations and you do a half inch plywood this Kit's going to be nice and flush it's
going to look like you did it like super pro looks nice
um so hopefully that answers your question so you said
thank you uh waiting for delivery of the floor not
sure about install yet so Rip Torn did you did you purchase the
ABC rig floor did you uh oh wait no you bought the AMF that's right AMF I got
you yeah I get the AMF Lauren and then
measure measure this distance right here
um this inch and a half
above the corrugation so Above This corrugation
if you have an inch and a half then this kit this kit will work [Music]
uh let's see where was I Where'd I Where'd I go
all right guys that's a uh pretty short live stream I'm going to uh
wait about a couple minutes uh put your questions in I'm going to talk a little bit more about the flooring system like
the stuff that I'm gonna put on top of it so this flooring system just like Thomas's van is going to get a lawn seal
floor and it's going to be put on with the lawn cell epoxy and um so we'll do that in a future live
stream but yeah if you guys have any questions about this floor ask me right now I'm
gonna stay on the stream to uh to answer those uh but I have something really really
cool that I want to show you guys um very very excited about it if you guys have been following
van Builder HQ you'll notice that we've been updating
the blog so we're continually trying to uh update the blog
and if you go to vanbuilderhq.com
we are working on adding new articles and blog posts discussing all kinds of stuff about
Camper vans lighting a lot of questions that not only you guys ask but just
industry wise uh something really good to cover to help you kind of guide you as you do your DIY van build
now check this out just came out this launched literally yesterday our new the
DIY van build cheat sheet so what I've done is I've taken the last three years
of Amazon purchases that are strictly van related and what I've done is I've
uh put it all into a van build cheat sheet that you guys can access
completely free click on the download the free cheat sheet it'll come directly to your inbox
and I'm gonna take just a second I'm going to walk through exactly what is in this form and how it's meant to help you
guys as you do your DIY van build
so if you go on to vanbuilderhq.com click on download the free cheat sheet
it's going to ask you guys for your name and email address and then once you do that you're just going to click download
now and it's going to pop up with the form and the form is going to look just
like this so this is a living document which means that you're going to be able to go
through this and over time I'm going to be adding more products to it and it's just a go-to for anything that you can
actually purchase on Amazon and it's not only about Amazon it's I
actually use Amazon as a builder to keep organized with uh certain purchases that I do so what I can do is I can go back
in time and you guys know if you bought anything from Amazon you can go back if you've already bought it you can find it
in your history and and purchase it so hey why not do it
with Van products So currently this list as of doing this live stream
has uh 254 products again this is all the products that I
have actually purchased and put in a van and then what I've done on the left is
I've organized it uh by category so you can go through and
um go through each one of these so we have a cargo storage I've got electrical
fasteners yeah so cargo storage that's going to be
L track components maybe like this right here you have
um little Nets that you can use for holding you know cell phones stuff like
that in your van the electrical is going to be really helpful because it's pretty much all the fuses like the blue sea
system stuff um AGM fuses uh Mega fuses Bluetooth stuff
and if we move on down we got into Fasteners so if you're doing an 80 20 build specifically this is going to help
you with a lot of the uh lock nuts or the lock washers uh the size of nuts
that I used in the 80 20 because you can really go down a rabbit hole with all of the different types of of
parts and if you just if I had one thing that I could go to and just see what I
was using a list like this it would definitely helped me out on future future builds
but um yeah go through this list we've got Hardware so for example
there is the soft close hinges that I've used in my personal van
we've got these pole latches so these Marine pool latches that you guys have seen on some stuff they're on the list
HVAC components you know if you guys are on a budget and you want to see what
diesel heater I actually used in my personal van this is the exact one that I used
I needed some additional air vents
for the heater then for insulation you know we've got
uh dynaliner that's a new product that we used on Thomas's van it's kind of like a
hybrid insulation sound deadening let's see here we got you know all the
ARB components that we put on Thomas's van the compressor for roofing we've got
the uh scan strut seals that I use to seal up the roof
uh security we put in some security components for Thomas's van
and then solar one of the most important things on this list are tools you know tools are
something that can really save you time in your DIY fan build
and these are pretty much a list of the core tools that I use pretty much on every build so crimping tools pneumatic
uh rivnut adapters and then finally we get to the water
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it's something that somebody would actually use in their van check out this list
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all right let me get back to the questions here
um so Nick asked are you planning to do any waterproofing or sealer to the wood and
what is your Final Flooring going to be so
there's a couple of things that you guys can do the as far as the floor goes
um what I did in my previous van is I just used a white latex-based paint and
painted the wood just in case that there's any moisture over time that gets underneath the wood and it's not allowed
to evaporate um it gives a wood you know a second
chance to actually dry out now remember so when I do this
floor you'll see how we do the corrugations so there is going to be
airflow underneath the floor uh it's gonna be very little but that's going to allow it to
breathe a little bit so we'll do some white latex paint on that and then when we're finished
uh we'll actually put the lawn sill epoxy
um that is a system that is made for the lonsil flooring so if you don't know
what that is or I'm gonna go through that real quick for the end of the Stream and then once that floor is down uh
that's pretty much it and so I do have a here let me I'm going to put in a link
to uh on a second
um all right put a link to the website
where you guys can actually download the list and then while you're clicking on that
to uh download that list to help you guys out I'm gonna look at lawn sale really quick
and so you want to do lawn still Marine flooring
if you guys don't know what this is uh this is the flooring that they use for boating uh the Boating world uh you know
a couple YouTubers have covered this as far as you know installing their Vans this
black long coin this is essentially stuff that you see on airplanes or buses
and you see it on a lot of Adventure Vans it's extremely durable it's also used because uh you know it
doesn't really react to the environment so humidity heat it's very resilient that's why you see it in a lot of Vans
and the cool part is if you do want some type of a design aesthetic to your van they have different colors textures
patterns we actually put this lawn Marine Wood uh into Thomas's van
and you guys can see right here looks pretty cool so it really uh can fit any
you know design palette as far as uh putting in your van
now I get this uh let's see here
Where is the so I'm gonna go to perfect fit
um now I'm not affiliated with this company again this is just helpful stuff for you
guys this is where I actually purchase it from and when you go to their lawn seal
flooring you'll see you have the flooring and then at the bottom you're going to have how you're going to
install it so there's a two part epoxy to install the floor
uh so you're going to use this and then you're going to use this specific trowel because if you guys have
ever done any type of tiling you know that the uh the trout level so where you scrape it
is extremely important depending on like you say you're putting tile in you needed a certain Groove to like smush
down the thinset the same thing applies to the adhesive I
mean to the epoxy now obviously epoxy is going to be very you know low profile
like maybe like a millimeter or two but you need to just trowel to make sure it has notches in it like little micro
notches and it's going to keep everything nice and even um all right let me let her out
yeah so if you go to here and you purchase these products together um you can get it all from One Stop One
Stop Shop and install it and let me I'm going to put the uh
let me put the video this video is going to show
exactly what I did uh see where is that video
all right if you guys are new to the channel we have a YouTube channel as you guys
can tell by watching the Stream and on here we're trying to find the
video I do about the flooring
okay I think I covered it let's see let's see if we did it on a live stream
we've done a bunch of these there it is
all right so we've got the uh lawn seal flooring video let's go ahead
and share this all right and then I'm gonna get back to the
questions here really quick
foreign
let's see here we've got
to have an opinion on the uh option on marine plywood versus zip
sheathing yeah um let's see here
so the marine plywood is it's to me it's more it's rigid it's more rigid
and the zip zip sheathing tends to be kind of floppy that's the best because uh you got
um oriented strand board OSB
let's see zip
yeah so zip the Zip system is uh oriented strand board
so if you guys don't know what oriented strand board is that is this
so you can kind of see over here it's basically like a bunch of chips of
wood there's like you know glued and pressurized together um
so I'll give you a little bit explanation if you guys aren't from the construction industry sheathing is what is put on a house
and it what it does is it uh not only is it protecting obviously the outside and
you put your exterior you know brick or whatever you want to do but it's uh adding to the
shear strength of the home so it's actually structurally keeping the home you know from you know like swaying side
to side uh generally I'm not saying that's exactly what it
does but it's not you know made to be fluorine so
what they've done is they've taken the Zip system and used it for a flooring system
uh because it's kind of integrated with the foam it's a pretty good idea but I think what
you're trying to get at is the surface right here
um this surface of the OSB is coated with this green
coating that makes it waterproof in quotes
and I was worried that when I did Thomas's flooring that the epoxy was not going to adhere to this waterproofing
like membrane or coating they put on it's very it's a I mean this coating must be thinner than like a human hair
you can scratch it off with your fingernail and I was worried that it wouldn't be a
good it wouldn't adhere to the floor um but hey after everything was done
everything it worked really well I mean it holds really well so other than the
floor um not being as like hard so this floor
the way the Plies line up is it's extremely rigid and I like that so I
kind of like doing this other over the zip I I honestly I don't see a advantage
to the zip I would rather use half inch uh
plywood and then you know paint it
you know to get it to make it uh less susceptible to water damage that would
that would be my my recommendation um how many linear feet of lawn still do
you order to finish out the floor uh 12 feet
yeah so Ford Transit 148 is 11 it's like 11 and a half feet but order 12.
order 12 feet um see what else
uh it's gonna come in a standard I believe a six foot width
so let's see here so say we went to some floor
yep so if you guys look here we've got uh six feet is the roll width
um and then I ordered 12 12 feet
so that link that I showed you guys about the live stream to how to install the floor watch that whole thing if you
guys have any questions put in the comments below we'll we'll cover it pretty much anything in a future video
um so yeah definitely keep the comments alive let's see what's that let's see what
else so we're talking about flooring um put in the comments guys right now if
if any questions on the lawn seal flooring we can cover them right now
also any question you have don't don't hold back as far as we're doing a flooring
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all right let's get back to the lawn sale thing so I'm just gonna mute this
video and play it for a second and I'm just going to quickly go over this install just like take a minute to
talk about it since I think a couple people in this stream are interested in the floor
okay so this uh this is a live stream that we did a couple months ago
and this is what it ended up looking like um after it was finished
now the the flooring itself comes in different thicknesses so the black coin
floor is a little bit thinner this uh it's called this is like a fake teak
wood look and um
let's see here yeah if you just watch the video you guys can take your time check it out
now I do have a a book that I have in the shop and it's the physical samples
um if you really want to you can call them up and get a sample book sent to you um
and they'll go through and I mean there's there's hunt there's not hundreds but there's a bunch of
different options um let's see here so this video just
walks through putting the whole entire flooring system in the most challenging part of this floor
install is the epoxy process if you guys have ever worked with epoxy there's something called pot life and that is
its curing time this one has a uh one hour
I'm sorry it has a 30 minute pot life which is not too long
so what that means is you need to go ahead and get uh take the product
let me just pause this real quick
you take the product I'm thinking I bought the um
I think it was the one gallon uh I think the one gallon option anyway you
take the product you have 15 minutes for it to uh to mix it and let it kind of
begin the curing process then after 15 minutes you got to get to work so you
really need to make sure that you have everything laid out my
suggestion really quick is to pre-cut the floor out go ahead and lay it in the van
and find out what edges you need to cut cut around the wheel wells cut around anything that you have as uh that's in
your way do a dry fit then take find the middle
of it put a screw in the top put a screw in the bottom fold it over and then get your Center
Line apply the epoxy to the left and then what you're going to do after that
is you're going to go ahead and
you're going to roll it on top and try to do it in a way that you're not going to make any bubbles if possible
and then once you roll it over go ahead and then you just work on the other side
that's pretty much it but like you guys said you guys can watch the video check it out
uh follow the floor
uh so what I did is as the adhesive
started to get the epoxy got tackier uh which is it doesn't take too long I kind
of went in and started to push down my edges and then cut them
um but let's see here when you put this down if it's curled up
on the side uh that's okay typically you're going to cover that with something
so just try to get it down as close as you can because the last step before you
actually go to cut these edges you're going to want to take a uh a roller
um and you're going to want to a weighted roller and you're going to want to roll this in immediately after
you get this laid down and then in the instructions it's going to give you a certain amount of waiting
period before you re-roll it and you want to roll it in multiple directions so up and down and left and right
then when you're finished with that go in um and then cut those edges so these
little trim Edge pieces the stuff that's rolled up uh so that was pretty much my thing
but again if you have any particular questions um just put those in the comments we will
answer that in a feature stream we're gonna be streaming tomorrow and Friday so if you guys have any questions tomorrow and Friday go ahead and hop in
and check that out okay I'm gonna go through these
questions one more time we're gonna finish up the stream here so ABC rig flooring system templates
that whole floor process uh pretty much closing this up let's see
what we got going on here in the comments
oh Peter yes two Tech two floors I love them uh I have not installed it yet but
lets me back up here two Tech Two this is kind of all the rage right now
um so I'm 99 sure I'm about to order this next week and you guys can see that my van
business
uh we got this you know kind of like orange red logo since this is a spec build behind me I
really want to go with the two Tech Two in this uh this color
so um so Peter is as far as I've heard as
much as I've heard about this flooring system um I've heard really good things about it so
there was a video there's a van that I saw at the Florida van life Gathering
um from Rover Vans and they had the blue in there and I really liked it um
because essentially what you're putting down is you're putting down this floor that is like the Revel snap-in flooring
but you're kind of doing it permanently um
but yeah they have a couple of these different things here
and to my knowledge this pretty much installs like the uh
uh what I'm saying the lawn seal all right here's the kicker
let's go to 12 let's go to 12 linear feet
all right let's add that to cart there you go so that's the only kicker right there
it's uh it's pretty pretty pricey but I mean it looks cool
um watch your roof fan install love that you had an alternate okay here we go
watched your roof fan install love that you had an alternate alternative to lap
sealant not a fan either can you be more specific on the screws you substituted yes
uh let's see here so there Phillips head stainless steel
screws with a Nylock nut so if we go to Lowe's
and we're gonna do
we're gonna go stainless steel screws and we want to find the ones that
I think they're called let's see
button head let's see here
okay they're not self-tapping and you guys may Wonder or you're saying
well that sounds crazy Nick I'll explain why all right so this is the screw I used it's a Hillman
uh Phillips it's a machine screw
don't quote me on this 632 I think that's what it is um
so you're wondering why I use a machine screw okay so I drill through the roof so go
through the fan two through the roof and make a clean hole and then what I do is I put a little adhesive on the bottom of
the screw and I actually Bolt the vent fan to the van so I'm not just sheet metal
screwing it in it's actually bolted in and then I use uh the Nylock
nuts right here to fasten it down
and it's just more like a safety thing for me the
uh window weld that you're going to use around the vent fan is going to sell out any water
whatsoever um but if you're going down the highway 75
80 miles an hour with a roof fan on top of your van
um you know I like to to be bolted down this is just my personal uh way of doing it
I did not watch anybody do this machine screw Bolton method if
it's just something that I thought was the best way but the better way to do it does take a little bit longer but I like
it I'm not going to mention other uh
uh companies that all they use is window weld with no screws uh I would not
advise doing that um and the other thing with sheet metal screws is if you accidentally over
tighten it you can't kind of go back you've already messed up the hole enough to where
you're not going to get a grip and basically you just have a screw that's glued in the roof it's not doing any type of help with your fan it's not
actually holding it so that's my opinion on
the screws um let's see here
yeah so I use the I use the machine screws and I use the
Nylock nuts and then I use that Flex Seal that's
another option but to be honest I know in that video I used flexo as the option
so what I have done is I have gone back to black
dicor lap sealant I've just
my technique in applying it has been a little bit more patient so it's not running all over the place I kind of
know where to expect for it to go but I kind of got over it because I want
you want you really just want to focus on the seal um rather than Aesthetics I love Aesthetics
but at the end of the day not having water come in is is pretty good
but hey it's been three plus years on my personal van and the Flex Seal is doing just fine so
and you can recode it but I mean you know who kind of wants to go back up on the roof
you will have to uh you know five ten years you're gonna
have to double check that it's not cracked up there regardless of what you use
Flex Seal Jamie loves flexo
uh yeah love these questions guys this is this is excellent um
all right why don't we go and check out I was gonna do this in another video but
we got a you know quite a bit of people watching right now so let's go ahead and check out some of the comments that
we've had in the previous week or so
I'm gonna try to zoom in here so you guys don't see everything from YouTube
well actually this is fine
um I don't think there's anything important here yeah
okay yeah I don't know if you guys can you guys can't see that hold on
all right so got Brian saying well done guys that was
on the lithium battery install with 80 20 frame so that video
just showing how I framed up to hold the sok batteries 100 amp hour batteries
um I just read this right before the channel and uh
it makes me really happy uh that this channel is helping out someone very specifically to DIY uh this
whole point of this channel is I just want to share everything that's in my head get it out of my head into a video
so they can actually help you guys um with my experience you know what I've what I've gone through so that you guys
don't have to repeat my mistakes number one number two uh help you guys get ahead a little bit
more on your DIY um with you know putting together cheat sheets like this so that you do you just
have something in your back pocket to reference um it's hard to find one place you can go to to kind of reference materials
instead of just scouring YouTube so I read this before I did the video and got really excited so Robert said uh
I'm so glad I found this channel your videos and uh trainer awesome I started to binge watch and rewatch them all you
made me feel like I can DIY a van trying to get ready for a van build this summer
that I might rent and use or sell if that works then do it again I'm learning
so much thanks if I may though give you a word of advice not sure if you realize
you probably do the Olaf olfa knives so that's the razor blades I use
they have a built-in breaker built in so I did not know that Robert uh I will
check those after this he said if you remove the small back CL uh cap it has a slit in it
and you can insert the blade Snap It Off I would hate to see you you cut yourself yes very very good
um so no Robert thank you so much for those
kind words it's seriously anything that you guys uh have questions about put those in the videos
because what I do is I like to look through the comments and if there's some type of suggestion
then I like to put that in a video for the future but I love this comment because it just it shows uh that's the
kind of the channel is doing what it's intended to do the next one is do you make the wall
panels or does someone sell them prefabbed yes they do so
um so the oh yeah so Jamie the cheat sheet let me put it here here we go
so go to van builderhq.com and you can download
of the cheat sheet so click on that link it's going to open up the page
click on download the free cheat sheet and then boom name email address download now
all right um so the comment was
do I make the wall panels I did I made all the wall panels for Thomas's van
however the system behind me is probably what you're talking about
uh they were referencing the Ford Transit window install okay so
I use a company called Adventure wagon uh no affiliation
I just think that their stuff is very safe
all right so this is Adventure wagon I've talked about this in other videos they make they create Interior Systems
so these are uh l-track based full van
interior systems they give you all the panels they're upholstered give you everything to actually put uh
your van together the bass starts out with this little skeleton this little orange metal thing
that rivets directly into your van uh creates a very very strong connection
to the van the panels are then bolted into it and then any uh the l-strike
they use not only holds the panels in but it gives you the ability to actually put in overhead bags bed systems
um I mean you name it if it's l-track ready you can use this system
um it's quite expensive um but depending on saving time getting a bill done versus
Aesthetics I mean there is nothing that knocks out both of those requirements
you want something that looks super professional and you can put in in like three days
this is this is an amazing product there's really nothing like it on the market
so um yeah Adventure wagon all right what else we got here
uh that Titan vid van bed might support 50 pounds on a good day
probably probably I I may agree with that
um okay inko wants to know where can I order the
Ford Raptor style Grille eBay England does not deliver to Germany
um so if you go
the delivery problem I'm not sure how to solve that
I might have to answer that in a separate video
um just subscribe this is JD just subscribed uh surprise no one has
commented on a great job of showing and interviewing Builders thanks getting ready to sell my truck and truck camper
combination and get a custom van that's awesome JD yeah I thought uh showcasing and interviewing the builders
for these um uh van shows is very important because
um there's just not a lot of I don't I don't see a lot of people asking uh
the types of questions about um you know what what kind of what are
they showcasing in their build what kind of options are people looking for that sort of thing so I really try to if it's
a question that I have I'm basically asking it so nothing is like pre-done or scripted it's
I'm just asking the builders questions that I want to know and then I just film it and then you
guys are there to kind of watch it um
okay so go and do I answered this one okay so that's probably all the new ones
I'll just answer this last one again from go and do so we answered this on the stream when uh they were on it
uh just watch your video on cutting the windows installing CR Lawrence TV windows on the passenger sliding door
and also behind the driver's door my jigsaw worked perfectly for the small back window uh in your example in this video I am
having a harder time with my jigsaw for the larger Windows weird question I know but what jigsaw blade you use enjoy the
content so I use the uh it's called very thin
metal and it's Bosch
so it's called Uh right here it is a
uh
where is it jigsaw blades it's the Bosch jigsaw blades they're
t-shank and they are Bosch
and it's the very thin metal anyway it's Bosch very thin metal T
Shank um but her we found out what her actual
problem was so when you go to cut
your van windows out there is
uh send you my girl so there are these
supporting members that go into the van so that the sheet metal doesn't flex and
wobble um and believe it or not the roof of the Ford Transit is glued in with this foam
Automotive uh just this weird foam I can't explain it but they use this on
these ribs and that allows it to the sheet metal to stick and then
that's how it sticks it's pretty crazy but the metal that they use for these supports is not the
same uh it's not the same as the sheet metal itself it's a completely different metal
and it's extremely hard and will just destroy your blades so what you want to do
let me see if I have my
so what you want to do is not use a jigsaw you want to use like this Milwaukee uh
kind of low profile uh cut off wheel this three inch three
inch cut off wheel and that three inch cut off wheel you're
going to want to cut those out first and then cut your whole entire window out with the jigsaw blade
the jigsaw blade just can't you can't cut through that special metal that they use for the structural supports of the
van and it just really makes it tough
um let's see where let's see Rip Torn where I missed your
original question where was it waiting for delivery the floor
one with camera and one without camera cutouts
camera
yeah um yeah Rip Torn ask that again I'm
trying I'm confused on the one with the camera and one without a camera not sure if you're talking about
flooring or if I miss something in the comments
yeah I may have missed one of your previous questions
all right let's see here
all right guys about two more minutes on this live stream and then we will be signing off today we will come back
tomorrow um if I know what time I'm doing the stream depending on what's going on in the shop
I'll give a heads up it's usually around the same amount at same time
um let's see here
oh link to the grill gotcha got you um yeah they have yep they have one with
the camera and then one without the camera exactly
now you can the nice thing is these are actual Ford
products they're from the Ford Transit Trail overseas model
um but they do fit uh I think it's uh the second half of model year 2020 and
up so with that new uh
you'll notice 2020 Ford Transit model year The Grille is kind of upside down
versus you know 20 21 and up it's kind of flipped
uh and I would suggest you get if you do have the camera with like the little
there's a camera and then there's like a little uh uh pop out
water sprayer for the camera to clean the lens off what I would suggest you do is if you
have that buy the one with a pre-cut out because there's a whole uh board that you have
to unscrew take out and then re-screw back in and so if you
get the one that does not have the coals out I don't know if it has the mounting location for that camera and the water
sprayer [Music] um uh but right now I'm just gonna I'm just
gonna randomly put this uh Ebay link in if I can find it
so when you on eBay you want to type in board Transit
Trail or Transit Trail Raptor
Style Grill
okay Ford Transit Raptor style Grille is what you want to type in
and then you want to go down to genuine Ford Transit Mark 8 mk8 Trail
2019 onwards Raptor Style so click on that
so when you look at the grill down here is where
am I zooming in does not work I hate that um
this top section this is where a key goes for a security feature in the
European models we don't have that but it doesn't matter it doesn't affect anything in the US you'll just have a
hole right there um this bottom section is where the sprayer and camera is housing is located
um oh good so see how this little bracket is right here so it looks like if you get the one
don't quote me on this but it looks like if you get the one that doesn't have the cutouts
this does have the support backing board for that circuit board I was telling you
about um okay so here's this one when you click on this on eBay it's
going to give you some suggestions down here at the bottom and if you go to this one
uh it's got the same thing
let me see if I can find one with a camera in it
um okay so I don't see one with the camera
yeah the prices are all they're all over the place unfortunately so to be honest we're actually cheaper I
think it was called it cost me 500 when I bought the other grills
all right so this link here here I'll just
okay I'm gonna copy the title
and then let's
let me make sure this is not okay good
so I'm not logged in so this should be
all right so click on that link and that's just gonna it'll help you get to uh the grill faster
all right guys we're gonna go ahead and close out this live stream um
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that much easier uh guys thanks so much for checking out the live stream today don't forget to
tune in tomorrow where we will be talking about
um let's see what are we talking about we are talking about seat install the
Friedman seat install in the back of this van so once again thank you guys so much for tuning in today we will see you tomorrow
right here on our live stream van Builder HQ YouTube channel
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