Price of a Bluebird

[Pete Masterson]

Exactly what I did. 1/4 inch cork underlayment, glued to the plywood sub floor - no vapor barrier. (Actually, there's a steel "vapor barrier" under the plywood anyway.)

Then, in my case, bamboo wood tongue and groove boards glued to the underlayment. The floor is quite solid without any extra noise when walking on it. The underlayment adds sound and insulation to the flooring.

With the tongue and groove, the underlayment was optional -- but it also made the surface more uniform as well as adding the insulation and sound deadening.

Pete Masterson

'95 Blue Bird Wanderlodge WBDA 42

El Sobrante CA

"aeonix1@mac.com"

On Jan 20, 2008, at 12:21 PM, Howard O. Truitt wrote:

Donald and All,

I am removing all carpet from the house and rplacing it with wood. I have concrete floors. I plan on putting down a vapor barrier and a layer of cork and floating the floor over that. That should muffle the sound of the floated floor. I'm planning on ordering enough wood and cork to do the Coach also. That should insulate and deaden the road sounds in the coach. Since the coach has plywood underlayment I did not think it advisable to put down a moisture barrier between the floor layers in the coach.

Howard Truitt, Sowega, 86 PT40