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thank you [Music]
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all right hey everyone welcome to the live stream tonight it's a late night
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it's 11 p.m Eastern Standard Time if you guys are watching this live and uh
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it's not the weekend but it is Thursday and we are finally finishing up this floor so
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take a little bit longer expected because I kind of uh I blended in doing
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the electrical when I put the floor in because I needed to conceal it underneath the floor
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um due to the way that we needed to run everything and because there's some
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components such as the wilbasto heater it had a fixed link sheath and I didn't
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want to change that so I moved it up to the middle of the van and then Along Came all the other wires we got our
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middle piece in first uh earlier today we put in the second piece and tonight we're going to finish
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up doing the third piece so that we'll let this sit up overnight and then
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tomorrow we're going to clean everything up sand it down not the whole thing but just the the
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edges I get a nice clean transition we're going to talk about how to do that in
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just a second make clean Transitions and then everything will be prepped tomorrow
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for the lawn sill now I'm not sure if I'm going to do it tomorrow I get some plans uh tomorrow afternoon so
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I'll probably wait till I have a dedicated uh day to do that so I can mix up the epoxy take my time Trace out the
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the floor um so we might do that so not sure what's
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going to happen tomorrow but I know tonight we're putting in this third panel and if you guys have been following
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along with the flooring install uh it's been a fun Journey this is a great binge
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watching videos because we've got I think there's 11 videos now on this floor
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it's not too crazy but I'm hoping that it's going to help you as a diy-er
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see what I've done if you want to improve on some things you're completely welcome to but um
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I kind of keep going back to about the floor being technical because of our in-floor shower pan the flip and fold seat and this tray and those have been
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challenges but I think the biggest one was trying to conceal all the wires in the middle of the floor before
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I put this in because once it goes in it's in Forever it's not coming back out
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let's go ahead and move on to the next part so the back of the van
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has my example of how I'd like to do my floor seams going for because it's a
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bolted seam now I picked up this idea from Humble road if you guys watched his channel on YouTube and
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that is the way to get a nice clean transition because what happens is over time if you just have it glued down
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the boards can kind of move and flex with the van it's not necessarily a bad thing you
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know you don't want things to crack but as they Flex there's a little hump over time that gets created by that the lawn
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seal or your flooring being flexed so my plan is to have those two pieces
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of one inch aluminum that's embedded in the floor that's going to allow it so that it has
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a nice flush surface to mount to
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and then it also has a sheet metal screw in it that that holds it down so not only do you have the adhesive that is
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pretty much doing all the work the screw is that extra bit of security
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to get to take this side and this side and bring them true to each other
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and then that seam just pretty much vanishes we're going to go A step above and right
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here I just uh this is an example so right here what we have is
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the first thing you want to do is you want to countersink your hole
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let me see if I can get this lighting fixed for you
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I guess you guys want to do this give me one second I will get this uh
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there we go we'll just do this temporary so here is your counters uh
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hold this countersink the countersink bit and then you just want to do it to the
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diameter of the head of the screw just like that
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and so the easy way to do it is just drill down until you have it kind of matches the head of the bolt
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just like that and then when you get there you're pretty much 99 there so once you do it you want to pre-drill
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your hole out so that when the screw goes down in there and it goes to grab the aluminum
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that you're not fighting against the wood you're only going into the metal
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now what I've done is I change this so I went from this
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set up with a self-tapping screw like that
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to a different setup because the fine threads on this
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monitor my lighting here the fine the fine threads on here were
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stripping out so what I did
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is I went and got these right here number 10 inch and a quarter
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so I had two problems they were stripping out and you see the bottom head
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the bottom head was touching the bottom that's pretty obvious but the reason was
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I got too precise and if this went too far down in the hole even like a couple
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millimeters it was going to touch and it's like barely touching
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so I got these screws but there's a difference to these screws
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I just realized I need to find the bag let's see here
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all right there we go I can be ready for when I'm gonna do this okay this is the new screw
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right there so it doesn't have a self tapping end that's okay still designed for Sheet Metal and it
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still has that uh this that tapered head shape
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so we use this screw now to go in our hole and what's going to happen is look it
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it's not going to bottom out and so we're going to keep that one
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but we do have to take a very tiny drill bit so we're using a
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5 64 drill bit it's a little skinny guy right there
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but this drill bit is enough to begin
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cutting our threads in the tip and then because of our aluminum
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is not a very thick piece of the walls are not very thick
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and they're soft this is able to do the job and then create its own threads and since the
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threads are much coarser
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right there since the threads are coarser it's going to grab into that uh
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thinner thinner aluminum better so in hindsight you can do two things
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you can get thicker one inch thicker wall aluminum tubing
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and go with a finer thread or stick with this which you can buy at Lowe's and get a coarser thread which is
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my recommendation so this is what it looks like to create that transition
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and this is just on the sample piece but you can see it's nice and flush and then what we're going to do is we're
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going to we're going to finish it off the only way Nick works here which is
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overdoing it we're going to take some JB Weld five minute epoxy this is the
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one be careful when you buy this the wood is usually marked out and it doesn't say wood there's only one of
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these packs and I think it's the red and it says wood but we're going to take this
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and we're going to put it over this hole we're going to take a metal scraper and
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we're just going to oh sorry we're gonna wipe across it and then let that dry and then we'll
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sand it down so this is like this is super flush because what's going to happen is when we go to do the lawn seal we're going to
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put a 100 pound roller rolling on this and I don't want this to dimple in the epoxy
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I want it to be perfect okay so that's what we're going to do
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we can we can do this anytime I might I probably will do this later but that's
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just my plan so hopefully this little explanation video will help you
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um if you want to plan to do that and last this is uh going to be it says adhered
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to the floor of the van with Loctite PL Marine Fast cure
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so this is pretty much the only thing that you can use to bond
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the metal of the van to the aluminum
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uh the metal part of the van to the foam and then the foam
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to the metal and then metal to the wood it
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it's used for all those applications and this thing is this stuff is impressive
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it's really really really good almost beyond my expectations because if
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I showed you an example here
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the way that this adheres to the foam
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is is really good it almost does like a little bit of a like a melting in the foam you see that
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so this this bond is very see that
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very strong okay back to the video
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let's get the lighting back to where we want it no no no
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there you go okay
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let's see here
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all right looks pretty good
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all right probably won't have anybody on for the live stream tonight but if you guys are on there definitely say hi
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while I'm working or maybe you guys will see this the next day our next step is to go over a couple
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things that we did so over here on the left we modified the floor and we took out we
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cut this out of the wood right here we did that so that our adventure wagon
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um interior trim pieces can fit
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so I'm gonna pick up one really quick and just show you one side so you know what we're talking about
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but this chunk is taken out so that this piece can slide down in
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behind uh down past the wood panel
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now we haven't cut out the foam but I'm gonna do that after the fact
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of course actually on this piece here see here
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yeah we'll cut that out after the fact
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because I don't want to uh cut out too much I'm going to cut it with the uh
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cut it with a razor so next over here on the right hand side
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we've got another piece and so this piece was also cut out this is going to allow us access to our
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fitting for our vent port on the water tank as well as our drain valve port on the
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the water tank so we need to remove that piece of wood and then after we glue this in we'll
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come back and cut this out we'll do it later and then we'll vacuum it out
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um I just I want the wood piece to be my template I don't want to cut that out and just assume that's
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that's where I traced it even though it's extremely close okay so next
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we have these two pieces so this these are three bolts they go
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through the floor of the van and these bolts right here
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they have these uh Chrome spacers so these spacers go on bolts like this
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and they allow it to be compressed without smushing the foam and the floor and then what I've done up here up top
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is they don't make a spacer thinner than a quarter of an inch
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so we have three washers that are making up that difference and then when everything is compressed
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it's going to be perfectly flush with the floor and with these two are designed to do is
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this will go in the Flatline vanco pull out tray these keep it from going front to back
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that's their job the four behind there job is to make sure that when the full
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extension drawer slides out that the whole thing doesn't pull out of the van and these are all grade eight bolts
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and they are through the van chassis so extremely strong
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and it's going to be the strongest way to install this pull out tray
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so we're not bolting it into the floor we're bolt that into the van itself so
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extremely strong those back there if you guys haven't watched the past streams they have two
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pieces of aluminum they're about this wide so it expands across all the
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corrugations in the van and it's just extremely strong uh connection
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we just got these little pieces of tape here they'll live there forever but these little pieces of tape
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their design so that this doesn't get shifted when I put the
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floor down I want it to be exactly where it right where it is
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next we are going to
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next is uh pretty much gluing so I've already taken the the belief blower
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blowed everything off of here it's nice and clean
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my automatic gun from Milwaukee broke
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during the last live stream and
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so if you guys know of this uh this gun doing what it did here
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let me know because I'm pretty good at operating tools
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and for some reason it worked for a while and then somehow it gets it catches on the inside somehow
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I don't know if it's because of these tubes I've never had a problem with any other tube but
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I feel like maybe it's the the viscosity the thickness of this stuff is
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not good for that gun so we are back to our
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tried and true hand gun
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uh or caulk caulk gun
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all right so next we are going to
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uh we'll start I'm gonna go ahead and get this out
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now if you guys watch the past the other live streams we we mentioned that
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we want very thin beads when we when we put this down
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uh so we're just going to do a very thin bead on this back lip here
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just where this seam transition is so it is very thin
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and then we just need to put some on our aluminum that's going to go up underneath the
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screws and so now we're just going to go back and forth
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doing our thin beads and we want the thinness so that we
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don't have any raised areas in the floor because the raised areas mixed with air
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space can possibly make a soft spot and then also make noise we don't want that
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you want these floors that we make and installed to be silent
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and I was using the Milwaukee caulk gun and that it was doing a good job
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but I also couldn't get it to make a fine bead like this
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for some reason it kept uh I didn't like doing this
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I turned the speed down it still didn't change it
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that's okay we're on we're using the old school method still
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our original method
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now sometimes there's these uh like these blobs that come out and you'll need to take a scraper and get them up
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uh they're they're like a dried piece inside the tube so again I don't know if that's like
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Lowe's quality yeah I mean these have been on the Shelf too long or something like that
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um you can kind of see I got even
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it's even coming out and then all of a sudden it changes
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yeah so very very thin caulking lines
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so thin as you can see it's almost not connecting to itself when it comes out
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that's what we're looking for the caulk
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gun that we had or when we caulked the bottom
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that needed to be thick because it was helping with the leveling of the floor initially
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because believe it or not the Ford van is not level on the inside and not in a level
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it actually has some time it has like a crown to it so this has like a crown
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so you got to be careful about that
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it looks pretty good
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don't leave off these joints right here
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all right coming to the back
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I'll need to change up my tube here in just a second
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now you do have 30 minutes to work with this stuff so
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you don't have to rush but I would still kind of be in a slight rush just in case something happens you
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had to I don't know what you have to do
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something phone bathroom something like that
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don't get distracted how about that
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[Music]
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foreign
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over here and the board looks like there's green paint on it it is green
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paint but that paint it's just a cheap outdoor paint that I
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got um at Lowe's and what I mean cheap is it was on clearance because it was somebody
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it's a good exterior paint That's mold resistant but somebody just didn't like the color
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or something like that and they just put it on the shelf so you can get it for half price if you
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find that if somebody just didn't want it so I got it for 15 bucks
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the most important paint that we're put on here is the bonding primer
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so the bonding primer is going to be
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what we put on tomorrow and that stuff is important
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you kind of see I'm having to kind of force it on here like smush it because it doesn't want to stick
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the hole that I'm passing right now that was is the whole access for our spare
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tire so we don't need it anymore but I access that so that I could uh
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pull up the cable that was holding the old spare tire the new spare tire does not fit because
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it's oversized so that was uh that's just one thing we did
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and put a little bit extra here on this end this tail
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I'm sure we get a good seal on the end of the van and that one we're gonna just put a
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little bit more here on this tail
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okay go through make sure we didn't miss anything I'm gonna make sure we put a little bit
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around this washer just like that that way when we squeeze it down
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make sure it gets in place or stays in place
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throughout the life of the van all right and then now it's time to
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double check so we want to go through make sure there's no Gap you know more
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than an inch that doesn't have a
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adhesive on it um let's see here let's get that
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okay so clock is ticking now so we need to take our
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squeegee which uh where's it here we go
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you need to make sure we knock down any of these high areas so like this one
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this one this one right here is a little too high
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that one yeah let's look around
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these over here anything that got a little a little too high when you were
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talking everything needs to be nice and low
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all right this looks excellent perfect
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let me just scrape it out of the way all right now let's go get our piece of wood
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now it's good to practice on how you get this in the van
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before you get it in the van and I've done it a couple of times so there's a
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couple different ways but I need to try and Float this before it comes down so just like that
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on this back side and I'm gonna do the back side first
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and then let it fall down and then I have alignment marks
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that I need to follow and then as soon as I have them
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good my next priority is these two holes right here I need to make sure they are absolutely
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perfect so go ahead and grab your bolts
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and that is a great sound perfect
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so we'll just give it a good push back
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that looks good
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we're good to go there
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I'm just going to check them with the van to see if they're uh crooked at all and they come out
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and they're good okay so on the floor is in
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now we can walk on it we're going to bring our Tools in so we can go ahead and start drilling our holes up there
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so we need our drill drill aluminum countersink
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bit and we need our number 10 inch and a quarter
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screws and we need five of them
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all right so now we can walk on it
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oh
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just want to make sure we got this it's far forward
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as we can
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okay now you can walk on it
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okay so let's again make sure we didn't move it
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so first we're going to take the piece of aluminum I'm going to lay it down
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and just for a visual reference we're going to get our our line
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and this is just so we don't do something dumb and countersink you know on the edge of the
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piece of aluminum it's a good thing to do when you're working late at night you know
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and then just as a double check to ourselves we need to make sure we come through
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and we're just going to put a little dot in the center where we want to
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screw down this uh piece of wood
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so I can't do it here because when I was cutting this I was going to remove this piece but
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instead I decided to leave it and I wasn't watching my mark So I cut into
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the about right there this is going to be fine it's going to be glued down but I need to back up the screw
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right there all right next let's go ahead and
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get our countersink remember the screw is your guide for countersinking
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it's going to tell you how big to make it that one's perfect
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this is just going through the top of the aluminum not the van [Music]
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once that's done we can get our
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Phillips
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and you want your drill on a high torque setting
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you want to stay straight up and remember it's cutting through the aluminum so just be prepared
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and then as soon as you fill the board clamp down stop don't strip out the screw through the aluminum
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[Music] all right that feels good
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for the next one
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thank you foreign
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I know I need more than one drill but my the wall the other one
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uh it's not working so
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yeah as soon as you see that just kind of sink just a little bit make sure you stop
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oh foreign
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[Applause] [Music]
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and on top of what we're doing to get this nice and flush we're going to put a
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piece of board down here and put a lot of weight on this joint so the glue in these middle parts pushes out
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we could have drill more but um it's it's really not that big of a deal
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we're putting 10 screws in it so I think if you doubled it up I think that'd be a little crazy
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this is for most people don't do this so
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[Music]
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oh
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my God foreign
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last one
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all right
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so I think what I'm gonna do that did lift this edge up right here
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so I'm going to carefully do one really close to the edge
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so right here and hopefully [Music]
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hopefully that's going to grab into the aluminum because I didn't
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because the aluminum is not I didn't extend it all the way out
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because I don't want I never want any sharp edges potentially touching Electronics so
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okay that's good we did hit it excellent
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awesome nice and flush very strong perfect perfect perfect
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this put a little bit of extra pressure here get that
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glue squeeze from these middle pieces
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perfect that's awesome
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yeah so really after we sand this or put the epoxy on it and sand it it's gonna be awesome it's gonna be super
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it's already very flush
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all right do we have any questions are people watching not really it's late
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that's okay we will talk to you guys very soon all right let me turn the light down on
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here just a little bit there you go well you guys can see
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see the floor here uh we did a great job so
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we are going to let this floor just do its thing dry up
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we're going to come by tomorrow we may we may uh Trace out some
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stuff but we'll do I'm gonna put the weight on here tonight and then we'll come back tomorrow and do
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the epoxy so I'm going to show you how I transfer the weight on this
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especially this this middle seam even though we have the glue we really want to make sure that
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we have a lot of weight on there
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so I'm gonna put this on here
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and you guys can guess in the comments what is in these boxes
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I need my other piece of wood I have a wider piece somewhere
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all right
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actually I'm gonna come back to that one I need to
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get the tire yes I have a spare tire for the van is part of the
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floor procedure here
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thank you
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foreign
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okay now I can put on this one this middle piece
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foreign
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guys that is it for the live stream hope you enjoyed this video hope it was
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helpful if you guys are learning how to put in your own flooring system
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um yeah that's pretty much what it takes so uh
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and it's a little bit more uh complicated as far as I mean complex
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as far as uh you know the step-by-step it's not a just buy it and install it type of thing
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this is designed for the dir that's looking to save money and do it yourself
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put their own flooring system in and if you guys haven't watched the other live streams and this is the first
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one you're seeing the template that I got was from AVC rig
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they're in our Colorado or Evergreen Colorado uh Adventure van Expo coverage
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um so you get an interview with them and instead of buying their high-end
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pre-insulated pre-cut flooring system you can buy the template which is the
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exact same template that they're mapping to cut that but you can just get the paper and cut out your own wood Source
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your own wood locally same as insulation and so that was what this video was about it was showing you
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that process and um what you can do and the reason I chose
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this one in this van not only to make this video but it was because I'm removing a lot of material from the
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floor so I cut a lot of ports out here I cut a lot of stuff for the battery the basto heater the shower floor pan the
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flip and fold seat the steps and that's a lot of material removed so if you're going to buy a one and done floor system
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you probably want to keep all that intact and use most of the floor uh you know I'm probably cut out as much
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wood as one whole panel for the stuff that we're putting this van so it just made sense that this would be a better
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option to go it's a little more work but I got to customize the cable tray under
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the floor and that was really nice I didn't have to find some way to pull everything through the walls
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um I did use one cavity that Venture wagon makes a little bit larger so you can pull wires through
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but all in all this is pretty much it from here we'll go to the next part of
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this series which is putting in the lawn seal now there's many types of flooring that you can put in this you can put a
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click click in flooring or like the Click lock flooring you'd like to have something waterproof
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if you're if you're going to do that just so that you don't have a leak in the van or you spill something and it
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gets to this wood uh if you do anticipate doing something like that you'll want to make sure that
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you seal this wood tomorrow we're actually going to be sealing this wood with an epoxy
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um kind of like an adhesion promoter type thing it's designed so that the wood can
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mate to the epoxy better so we'll be doing that tomorrow so look forward to that
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but yeah you can put any flooring system really that you want you can go really high-end like the two Tech Two flooring that's pretty uh popular but I've
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already purchased the black coin lawn sill so it's pretty standard that's
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what's going in this van it's going to kind of keep the theme of like black bamboo gray dark gray kind of theme that we
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have in the van uh so we've got good lighting but like nice nice dark colors
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and uh yeah so hope you guys check out the live stream tomorrow uh make sure
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