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Flooring Install Part 14 | Livestream Shop Cam
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May 2, 2025
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thank you hey everyone welcome back to our live stream today we are working on trimming
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the lawn seal so this is our lawn seal flooring it's a vinyl floor
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and it's designed to be put on with a two-part epoxy that a lawn seal makes
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and sells and so we've purchased this and we're going to get ready to trim it so what
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you want to do when you purchase any type of vinyl flooring that's just my opinion and from
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doing it before is you want to lay it out and then trim the excess that you're
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going to have now you can roll it in and then you know after it's glued down trim
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as you go however it makes it really challenging to push the sides in and get a good Bond on the
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corners of just any of the edges possibly will make it messy and then the
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roller that you're going to need to roll this floor down it'll make it challenging to actually do that part as
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well so we're going to go over that I hope you guys enjoy this new setup we are now streaming in 4k we did a test
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yesterday so this stream should look pretty good I'm really
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happy about the details with the the new camera and I think it's going to benefit you guys so you can see in more detail
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what's going on here in the shop so we're going to need a couple things in here
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besides the flooring we're not gluing the floor and end by the way we are just
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going to roll it out and then trim it
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um so I'm going to fix the camera into its first position
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so we got a couple positions with the camera this is the first angle so it's
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going to snap here and then that way I can actually
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line this up really quick there you go so that way when we're down here in the
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floor the camera is not going to be hunting all around because it's actually on a Gimbal and it'll actually move and track
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me but that's going to be distracting for you guys so um but what we got to do is get this all
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framed up so if this sits like this so I'm going to start the video here
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but if you guys haven't seen the stream before the second position goes here and
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that locks it so that when we get in the van in a minute and I'm showing you how to actually lay this out
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you guys can see me here and kind of what I'm doing on the floor because we're going to be working back
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here first and then we'll roll it out come back here to the back
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and then for example you know later in the week we're going to be working on the AC unit so this third
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snap Bowl Position will show the top of the roof and then this is the fourth one
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and I won't be doing this a lot but I'll show you that it actually will follow me and I was thinking about using it to
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kind of do this and then talk over here but uh it does freak out sometimes so this
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might not be the best but you know if it's working and we're talking about here in the water system or we come over here and we're talking
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about the power system it kind of follows around but area
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it's a cool feature but I know it can get distracting so we just whenever you
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see the camera jerk like that going in the future is just locking into a position
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so we can uh start the video all right
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let's go ahead and kick this off so let's talk about the materials you're going to need to
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do a layout and trim of the floor
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so I can't remember where I found this technique out but we're actually going to use two wood screws
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so you need two wood screws and we're going to drill one here not in this
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metal we're using this metal as reference and then the second piece uh which we'll
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actually put in first X is going to go all the way up here and it's going to go in the center of
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the floor so we have our Center rib of the van Center so we're going to Mark where that
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is on the wood and uh all the way down front middle and the back and then once we do that we'll
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lock it we'll roll the lonso out and we'll lock the floor in after we align it and then that way
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all we have to do is one we can practice how we're going
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to glue the floor in by flipping it over flipping it back two it's gonna well I guess One's Gonna
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line it up two is going to be able to kind of help you practice the install
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and then three what it's going to do is you'll find the middle and then that'll now be your home
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reference point so once we trim it and we take it out when we put it back in to put the
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adhesive on there you'll have the screw hole still there where it needed to be
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screw hole is in the lawn seal and it just makes a process much easier
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so two wood screws um I always just keep this green tape I
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love this you guys see me using the shop all the time just I don't know stick something down
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you'll need a drill so that you can drill in the wood screws and then you're going to need
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a tape measure and then you're going to need two
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uh two of these guys so these are
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essentially like box cutters but they're by olfa
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olfa it doesn't matter what kind you get I just there's no affiliation with this
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brand but these uh if you guys watch home renovision
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um that YouTube channel he swears by these and that's where I got these from
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and they're amazing and the best thing is they sell them at Lowe's so what's nice is it's Japanese steel
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that's inside these razors and it's extremely Sharp and I have two of these and we're going
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to use this to make our trim cuts all right so we got that
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and that's it that means we're gonna get ready to go now
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one thing I did forget is my permanent marker see if you guys have joined the live
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stream before I have lots of them but I can't find them so
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give me just a second and I'm gonna find where I laid those down
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I just need one but
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I can find my permanent marker
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so what the permanent marker is going to do is it is there so that we can
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uh that says this one's fine this is good it's my giant one but it'll be fine
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so the permit marker is so that we can find our Center and find the limits to
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our end covers end caps whatever you want to call them
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so this bottom piece right here this is our trim piece now the kit that we got
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uh no affiliation here but I'm going to show you go to my face and let me go to the
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website
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so there's no affiliation with this company I just like giving you guys really good information so we're going to head on over to
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avcreig.com this is the company that I got the floor
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pan floor plans from as well as
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um the trim pieces
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so if we go to Van type Transit High roof it doesn't really matter we're going to kind of come to the same
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page so the first thing we did is I'll show you their high-end product
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so this is their insulated floor system this system is already ready to go
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it is a essentially a zip sheathing system that has the half inch
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plywood with the in with the one inch rigid foam insulation that is made
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together as one piece has an R value of about 6.6
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and I think that is include that the wood the wood is making it have that higher r value because this is uh that
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the system I'm using is R5 so this one's just a little bit better with a 6.6 but I think that is taken to
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an account the wood insulated value but don't quote me on that anyway you can purchase this system
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right here uh and have it shipped to you if this is something that's in your
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budget and you don't want to pre-cut this out you want to save time then also maybe you just uh the handyman skills
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aren't there for doing precise work which is completely fine you know there's a DIY van for every
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single level now if you're like me and you're going to
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cut a bunch of uh holes out of the floor and maybe you
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don't want to waste that material that's going to be cut away anyway because I'm essentially cutting about a
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third of this floor out so
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you know I thought it would be more advantageous to Source my own plywood I got it from
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Lowe's and I used their ABC rig Transit paper pattern floors
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and it's essentially like a blueprint style paper you know it's a
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big paper that's been printed out on a plotter which is just an oversized printer and so it's full size so you basically
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just lay it down on a piece of wood and trace it out you're good to go and the cost is much uh
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less expensive Plus you can reuse it you know if you want to
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or maybe if you need to fix something say you mess something up you can put on another piece of plywood and cut it out
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again and you can reuse the paper it's pretty nice now the uh
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ABC trim floor step and trim this is what I'm talking about right now so this
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piece right here you can buy as a kit it comes with this little four floor step threshold
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it comes with the rear of the van as well as the front step part
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are the transition piece between the driver and passenger seat in the back of the van now they have since modified you can see
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how there's these holes drilled into it so mine was one of the early versions because
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it was just an early version all right but you can buy this kit
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comes with grip tape some stickers this back part right here
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this little cap is so that you can cover the rear
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spare tire cap cover that way that way you can have the cap to re-access
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the floor uh little winches in the floor if you still wanted to use that on for
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our setup we're not using that anymore so the floor is just covering that because we have oversized our tires
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which means there's no reason to use that underfloor pan anymore
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at the future cup customer wants to use it they can all you gotta do is just drill a hole through the floor they're good to go
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but this kit is pretty nice because you can see it cleans up the rear of the van really nice and believe it or not this
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is the exact floor that we're going to be putting in the Ford Transit so when we're done ours is going to look just
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like this so black on black really nice and clean and this rear panel they have multiple
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screw holes in there we'll see about that when we get close I may use Marine adhesive on this back
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part instead of the screws so that's still up in the air we're just going to do one thing uh everything one step at a
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time but essentially this is what the rear of the floor is going to look like and my van
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all right and that kit is uh that's the current pricing
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and they're powder coated very well and it's uh it's hard to find another kit as
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well made as this again it's not sponsored it's just I have really done my research and looked a lot of stuff on
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the internet and it's hard to find good quality powder coated material that's not painted Steel
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so you have to really make sure something's powder coated powder coated versus painted is completely two different worlds it has to do with the
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the prep and the bonding process as well as the material used and powder coat is
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premium It's Gonna Last way longer and this is a high wear area
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so you want to make sure it's powder coated all right let's get started here so now
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that you guys know where to find these trim panels what we're going to do is we're going to
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measure from the back on this edge with our opponent marker that we finally found
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and this measuring on this back side we're going to find the offset from the
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edge of the floor we're going to do that because that's how far in or how far from The Edge are
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screw is going to go so we're going to put that in the center of whatever we measure we're going to go to the front of the
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van we're also going to go take that offset go to the center of whatever that
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measured and then that makes sure that wherever we screw or screw in the screw hole that we drill will always be
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covered by a trim piece so you'll never see it once the trim piece goes down
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last thing I'm going to do is drill a hole in our nice vinyl that we will see later so we want
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to make sure it covers is covered up so let's go ahead and do that real quick
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so back here we just got our piece and we're going to kind of just go for whatever we think is about Center we're
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just going to make a line and we'll Define the true Center here
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going this way in a minute but now we can take this piece off
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and you guys can see what it looks like now
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so this is going to allow us to know where we can locate our screw hole
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we're going to go to the front and we're going to do the same thing
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the front trim piece is pretty much the same it just doesn't have a curve in it so we're going to lay this over
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kind of get try to get close to the center as you can you make the line wider if you need to
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and then we're just going to take that off
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and then since our pieces of wood are cut out on this back side
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um let's see here I'm actually going to take my drywall Square
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if you guys don't have one of these it's okay but the method might have to be
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different a drywall square is nice because it's very long
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it's made for drywall but this is a drywall square if you guys have not seen one before
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all right I call it a drywall Square it's just a very long Square
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and this way we can go and find our Center rib right here
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just going to line this up and then we're going to put it right
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there in the middle and then we're just going to translate that Center
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up here and we're going to just put a
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little Mark in the middle and now that is the center of
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we're going to put the front piece in the back we just do the opposite
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before I forget I let this sit in the sun outside about 20 minutes before we
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came in here so it's still kind of residually warm if you guys can do that it's a bonus but
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you don't have to do that it's gonna just gonna make it easier to
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unravel it so now what I'm going to do is I'm just going to
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draw a line right here and that way we're just going to be able to move our Square
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and we obviously won't be using the back to square this line up but we're just gonna
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get it as close as possible because it's not the end of the day if this is off a little bit but
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I like to try to be perfect first and then
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change it up later if I have to close to perfect how about that
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all right so now we've got our Point here and then we got our point up there in the front
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that's right one thing I wanted to do is actually I want to draw two more lines since I'm
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kind of teaching you guys I wouldn't normally do this but
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I think it's all help Drive the point home a little bit better so we're just going to take this
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and make a couple marks just like that
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almost like a Runway again this is more for teaching purposes
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um now where this would be would be beneficial to you is
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if you do want to use this as a method to make sure you're not putting too much
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epoxy on one side
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it's just a good reference mark when we go to put the epoxy on we'll
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want to make sure that we come close to this and then
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you know do our epoxy because when we flip it over we'll do the other side
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all right let's see if you guys can see that on this camera the new camera
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oh it's awesome that's that's better than I expected Let's do
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let's do some more here in the back
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all right so let's continue it on the back here
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okay so now we got our Runway marks there
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and that's just going to help guide us this whole process
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so we don't need our trim pieces anymore take them out of the van
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okay now we're going to open up our our package
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and make sure you do not cut into the other part of the package
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I try to do everything by hand as much as I could first and then
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bring out the razor the crazy thing is this this thing is
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extremely sharp I mean just like barely lay it on there and it will cut I'm just like barely
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barely put any pressure on that you don't want you don't want to cut into the lawn so it's very resilient but
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it's obviously not meant to be cut by the razor
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this is not too loud
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now you may need depending uh on what you want to do you may need to
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have somebody help you this roll is about 65 pounds
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thank you
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there's no special way to do this so this may be entertaining for you guys
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foreign
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so hopefully this shows you the point of you know pre-cutting it to get it as
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close as you can because if you you can't imagine if you can imagine doing this
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while you're trying to spread the epoxy so
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that is why this is what you want to do ahead of time
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okay so this is
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see how wide this is
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six feet wide yeah so we're gonna take our green tape
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I'm gonna put a little bit of tape on our
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three foot Mark or we'll find we'll find our Center
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at three feet I mean this is going to help us line up
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that part that I was talking to you guys about
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foreign
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there
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and we're just going to shift it so we can do the other side and then we'll just go we'll do the same thing at the front
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it also depends on what lawn seal you actually get because this one is uh
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this is one of the thicker versions so they have different types of
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protection
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so they still at six feet but it's a little bit longer than six feet I'm a little bit wider
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than six feet which is okay
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all right so we just made two lines so we're obviously just gonna go in the middle of those middle of that we always
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do the front first that way we can square it up from the cut so as long as
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whoever you're getting it from has cut it Square which this one looks really Square
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it should be pretty good
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if you guys have any questions feel free to ask them in the chat while we're doing all this
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foreign
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if you can measure it try to get it closer to the edge so you'd know are there your markings
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that is and we can get as accurate as as you can
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you want the accuracy because we're going to take this out and we go to put the lawn seal back in we want it to be
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you know perfectly where we left it or wherever where we've marked it
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all right we're good there we're gonna extend our line just to the edge
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so that way we can see it when it's being covered up
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something good to do before you actually drill your screw in up here at the front
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is just you know no measure backwards this is a triple check
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you know you should be looking at something like three quarters of an inch back so on the
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lawn seal you're going to go three quarters of an inch back and then that is where your screw hole is going to go
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foreign
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foreign
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ers so what's cool is this thing is at an
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angle right now it's kind of Twisted a little bit like that but what we can do
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is since we have this edge here right on the corner
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if we go ahead and we put in our screw then we can move it left to right in the
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back and it's going to be able to make it easier to align it
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all right so you got three quarters of an inch
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foreign
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drill through
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all right now watch this this is where you kind of get to see
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why this makes sense oh thanks going due I'm all so good that
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it looks great um yeah that's awesome
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so watch this see now you can take this
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and see we're off over here so we can just all we gotta do is just pull it
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until we get it perfectly lined up just like that
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I'm just gonna go back and forth and kind of see where we wanted to go
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let's give a little bit of a jerk to straighten it up okay that's where our next one's gonna
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go
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so since you you're always going to want to order this with about a foot extra
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so we know this is six inches wide that's how much that's where how they sell it
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and I bought 12 feet but they gave me 12 feet 2 inches
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so they gave me about an extra inch left to right or width extra inch wide
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and about two inches longer so now what we're going to do is roll
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this Edge over it just be super careful
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Let's uh all right let's see how fancy this camera can be
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and move my time lapse back a little bit
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well that's very convenient all right so we've got seven and three
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quarters so seven and three quarters from the back of the van
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all right so that's the back of the van right there
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made a little scratch Mark and then I just want to go uh
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I'm just going to do a half inch I did a half inch up front
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okay let's do that so we went and we measured to the back of the floor
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and then we went in another half of an inch to drill this this one
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and that way we know it'll be covered up
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so that's the cool part so now that with those two holes
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we're going to see what needs to be trimmed out in just a second but now I'm just going to show you
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everything which is this is where you can practice how you're going to actually put it in the van and so
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and uh yeah I'll watch the uh the camera on the gimbal sometimes it goes crazy if I I leave it
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but this one is going to allow us to come and pull this over
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just like that so let me go up there and see how that's doing
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I might have to go back and fix the camera but we're trying things out with this new camera
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it's supposed to actually find me and then zoom in so that's pretty cool
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but check this out so you see how I have this actually rolled over
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so what you'll want to do before we do the install we'll still go over this on install day
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but this is what I'm talking about you can kind of see those uh
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Runway lines under there but since you have such little time yeah that's the hunting I was telling you
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about um yeah let's pause the camera
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it is cool but I know it's not a good viewing experience
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okay here we go
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so see how we have this flipped over
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so what this is going to do now is allow us to only work on this area so one side at a time
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when we get to the epoxy portion of this everything is happens very quickly
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so we only have 15 minutes to put the epoxy from the
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front to the back so you divide it in half seven and a half minutes so you have seven and a half minutes to do this one
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side so that's troweling it out getting the level right and then once you've trout it out
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you'll be able to come over here to this other side obviously you'll come from the back
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but this way you can roll it over the epoxy and then make sure all your air bubbles
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are out hop onto their side flip it over and these screws are in there for the whole
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time so you're online but is not being uh you know messed up at any given time
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all right so a couple of uh things that allow us to have a little
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bit of a little bit leeway during this project we're gonna so we're going to cut out
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the shower pan the flip and fold seat and
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for the flip and fold seat I may try and
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cut the middle out and then roll it in but my plans are for that to trim this
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up with uh inch and a half
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aluminum angle so we'll do some precise cuts and then we'll make our own little
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border for that you can you could try to
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uh cut and turn it down inward so I'll do that first just because we have nothing to lose
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but if if you have something like this and you do mess up
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you can always take aluminum trim paint it black and then try and trim this out with angle I haven't have a professional look
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the shower pan it has a one inch lip overhang on this whole entire shower pan so we don't have
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to worry about that we can cut it exact to size which is what we're going to do and
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then that's all good as we come over here but let's just go ahead and put this
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back where it needs to go your Ford seats will overhang here so that's going to be an issue for you
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what's also going to rise this issue is this uh seat
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uh this little clip in over here on the right hand side most people actually cut that off if you
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can't see what I'm talking about uh I'll try to mention it again in a
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future video but essentially is a little attachment point on the back of a Ford Transit seat
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I'll probably grind that off so just look for that in a future video so
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so as the shower pan comes out as we do this right here
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we're going to start moving towards the uh the heater area
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so for the heater area what we want to do is we're going to want to trim it out
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completely one is completely hidden over here you'll never see it
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two we don't want any of this vinyl you know directly touching our heater even though the heater doesn't
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get hot enough on the outside typically to do any anything to anything around the van it's just a good
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thing to look out for and then next what we have is we will
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have our Adventure wagon panels that go in here and there was a viewer that was asking
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about how or what's the best way to
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measure from here to the floor to cut off the excess
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so what we're going to do is I'm going to show you how to measure off the L track to the floor
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and then once we get finished with the floor we'll take our final measurement from the bottom of the floor up to the L
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track on this inside lip that number will tell us
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we'll subtract it from the overall width and that's how much we'll we'll take off
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the bottom and that way this panel will fit flush in there we don't want this rolled up to
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the panel we want it under the panel all right and then as we come to the
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back we'll do the same thing we'll be very careful back here because remember if you have wiring already in
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the floor or your DC to DC Chargers that are being powered
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off the engine battery they're probably right here so just be careful when you cut that you're not cutting into that
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so that's why we're this is a good example of why we're not doing epoxy and trim the floor at the
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same time that way we don't have to brush we can take our time same thing that happens as we go to the
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back we'll come all the way back here and we will
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finish cutting this uh Edge over here we'll take this out
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so we want our Edge to be super clean so that when we put this back in that edge
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is really nice where this is so we'll take this out
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we no longer need it as a little prop
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and what we'll do is we'll take the whole floor in and then we'll find out where we need to
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trim it and get it close now what you can do
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this is what also I did on Thomas's van is I took it all the way to the edge so it was almost touching and I rolled it
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down with the epoxy and then once the epoxy cured I then cut the sharp edge so
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that's that's another thing that we might do or you guys can do
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over here some people keep it and have it rolled
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up on the wheel well we won't be doing that because remember we were repurposing our
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Fender covers and they're actually going down into this pocket
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so we'll make sure that we just trim it close
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all right so that is that part this is a No-No what I just did you need
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to make sure that that is not where you're going to be walking and let's just see we have one more area
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up here
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all right
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now this area up here I just noticed that
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we have about it we've came come back about an eighth of an inch off this Edge
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which is okay because we're gonna bolt this cover down but just be careful when we did the back the back was
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straight this front part cut wise
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looks like it was just it took a little they took a little bit more off on the left side than the right so it's straight in the back but
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so really we wanted to use the back as the front vice versa but this is the way we rolled it out
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it's no big deal just be aware when you do put your screw in the back that you double to go back and double check the
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front but this is okay up here
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all right while I'm up here I'm just going through all the thoughts that I had when I did
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the last install you're going to make sure you want to put something underneath this Edge and
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really tape off your uh your factory floor like that plastic
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floor in the transit because you don't want to put the epoxy on here and when you have
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the roller you don't want it kind of oozing over the edge onto something that you can't get it off of so make sure you
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protect that but we'll go over that when we get uh closer to the next part
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okay so we don't have any bubbles right here in the middle which means you know we don't have any
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big humps so everything in here is pretty much where it's going to be
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right here we have our shower pan
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and I'm just kind of walking on it to kind of to find the edge a little bit to where
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I'm going to be cutting but I think that'll be a great one to cut out first
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um I want to find this Edge really nice on
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at least one side because what I'm going to do is this part right here
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is going to be uh perfectly
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it's going to be we're going to be reusing this for the lid of the shower pan in the floor so this is what's going
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to give us that nice hidden shower pan so let me show you that piece really quick
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all right
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so this is our shower pan cover and so this is going to go let's see
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right like this so as you can imagine when we cut this lawn sill out what we're going to want
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to do is keep it so that we can put it back on top of
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here we'll epoxy this and now this hidden pan will have the same texture as
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the floor and it'll be the same like a puzzle piece it'll go right
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where we cut this piece out
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all right for this one there's two blades there's this one but it can if you push it too hard it
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can retract on its own so I'm going to get the other one this one
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and this one has a locking wheel and that way it won't uh
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it won't mess with me foreign
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so let's make sure we have this Edge over here
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we got one final check on our front and our back looks good
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once again guys if you have any questions while you're watching this live you can pause anytime take some
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questions
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all right that's gonna look good
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all right so we just want to really want to find our Edge um
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yeah for this middle piece we have uh we don't have too much leniency with this uh finding this edge
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here and that's really just for me you guys can uh
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you guys might have a different situation but um for me I only have about a quarter inch
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of area to mess up
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if you know what I'm saying
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okay good we got our Edge right where the floor is
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again take your time we don't want to uh
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rush and then pull the razor across our brand new floor
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these floors are not cheap they're not cheap because they're
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very durable one of the benefits of these floors is
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it has to do with the expansion and contraction if you guys do like a metal or some type
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of floating floor I mean not metal uh what I'm trying to say
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like a click lock or floating type of floor the only downside of that is
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if you don't allow proper expansion so maybe up to like a quarter inch quarter of an inch or more
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or probably eighth of an inch or more I put this I put the click lock flooring
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in my personal van and even though I knew to leave Expansion Joints like around the edges it's still buckled so
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the reason that lawn sale is such a good product to go with is because the epoxy and the way that it's installed it can
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kind of move and breathe with the floor and you don't get these uh buckling or Bubbles and stuff like that
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so I'm just putting this tape on here it's kind of like a guide just so I don't don't go too far
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it's not a perfect guide but it's uh
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it will help also make sure you don't have anything you know on your feet
55:51
like rocks or something like that from the driveway shop floor is pretty clean so I'm I'm
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good to go
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all right looks like the video looks like it's good sounds on okay
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of course you guys will let me know if uh something messes up I'm sure okay so we got our first Edge that's
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good I come over here
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I'm going slow to make sure I'm not kind of curving in
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then I'm just going to kind of visually give myself a piece of tape here
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so I know where I'm supposed to stop in case I just keep on going
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so now I can actually come in and fill if I'm over too much or not
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again you guys might not have to be this precise but um for the shower pan to look the way I
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want it to I'm going to need to uh
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to do this like this all right that one
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excellent
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all right so next see if I can go this way
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make sure you know your fingers are too
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foreign
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you guys feel free to use any of these these crazy methods that I'm I'm coming
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up with
59:35
for some it may be OCD but uh I will tell you with the van industry
59:42
the way it is uh getting products and stuff like that if you can just imagine
59:47
the cost of this material and then let's say
59:52
you have the shipping costs included but then not only that you have uh you've been wanting to make sure that
59:59
something like this was in stock for example so you've been waiting for all that to happen and so
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my point is if you don't take your time and you rush
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something and then it damages the floor
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then you know probably not gonna be happy with that
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okay so it looks like our Blade's getting dull so I'm gonna pull it back to a different
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position uh and don't be shy to you know break
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your blades away often
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it's going to give you the best and uh safest cutting surface
1:01:06
all right doing great
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hold on Nova
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it was good now as we can actually pull up as we're cutting
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we can see what we're doing
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foreign
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put the shower pan in here and we get to see how it fits after it
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made that uh modification to it
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well modification of the floor the floor that is
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watch your knees too don't want to come in to your knee
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that would be really bad all right it's nice and easy
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even though we're right at the edge just take your time
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all right so guess what we took our time and we cut out a perfect
1:04:50
precise piece of the floor all right so now that I don't mess
1:04:55
myself up I need to I'm going to label this front
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and so that way I don't have to twist around like a puzzle piece and figure out
1:05:10
where the front is later
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all right there you go put a little arrow front
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let's grab a shower pan and just uh have some fun with this
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this thing is it's like a solid steel pan they do that
1:05:46
so that the the magnets from the shower what will work because you can't use aluminum you
1:05:52
could use aluminum but it'll be pain in the butt um
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all right so I can already see that I didn't cut out I cut out the wood but I didn't cut out the
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uh insulation oh it's okay fine
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look at that here let's take that green tape off
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let's gently put this on the back floor
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foreign
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don't live your leave your blade down like that
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all right so this lines up great
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all right good to go
1:07:28
I will need to trim off the insulation on this left side because I'm about
1:07:33
an eighth of an inch off of my Center hole right here so front to back is fine left to right is
1:07:40
the issue it's not a big deal but remember we have our two kitchen galleys
1:07:45
here and they're directly on this line so we need to make sure that's uh very precise
1:07:51
let's put the piece of wood in here so we can
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let you guys can see on the camera a little bit better
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there you go so that's where hidden shower plan is going to shower pan is going to go
1:08:56
and then we'll take this uh lawn sill right here
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and this will go like that and that thing's gonna look awesome
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yeah you definitely got to make sure this is cut out accurately you're just gonna
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yeah definitely look weird when you put it back in okay enough of that let's keep on
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cutting
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foreign
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foreign
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on this passenger side over here we're gonna do the same thing with the
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tape
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foreign
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yeah watch out for your your legs you're coming around your face
1:14:57
another good thing to do is just put some tape on these sides where just give you a heads up about going too
1:15:04
far down
1:15:11
now I'm doing this as if we needed to go all the way down
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but depending on how you're laying your floor out you may not need to do
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uh what I'm doing here you can be more aggressive and cut more out of the floor
1:15:36
so I'm basically when I go around the edges I'm acting as if I'm going flush up to the outside of the van not the
1:15:42
floor I'm going over the floor but I'm not taking enough Material off to where the floor is still going to lay down
1:15:48
flat while I'm doing the epoxy
1:16:02
all right
1:16:08
the next nice thing about that is just like this corner here if there's anything touching
1:16:13
I can just just shave it out it's nice and easy
1:16:26
and then when I get done I'll come back later and do a clean cut after the epoxy has let it
1:16:34
um you know glue down come down come down down to the floor so like for example this
1:16:40
I know that I can just come straight across here and make sure I'm not cutting my wires
1:16:46
behind there that's very important
1:16:54
so that way I can lay it down everything's still good
1:17:02
again take this side I'm gonna cut it out don't cut your
1:17:08
your Vans weather stripping
1:17:14
another danger point
1:17:21
and a way to not do that is just pull it up out of the way
1:17:28
you're cutting it and this part does not have to be neat this is just
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it's just so that when you put the epoxy down this is going to lay you down flat because you're going to get the cleanest
1:17:40
reveal if it's laid down flat while the epoxy dries and then you come back and trim it up
1:18:02
you can and depending if you have lines in these or you have the the coin structure you can just
1:18:08
look down and then just follow up from where those uh
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coins are whatever you want to call them and that's a good way to gauge
1:18:20
where you need to be on the floor
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thank you
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so remember for us we're not wanting to the fenders going behind here
1:19:07
so we want this is what we want the lawn still flush to the floor area
1:19:45
if you also remember we did we cut
1:19:51
these sides out to gain access to our plumbing and drain over here
1:19:57
so we want to make sure that we don't cover this up with uh with
1:20:03
lawn seal
1:20:11
we could have it overhang for the epoxy purpose but then we want to come make sure we come back
1:20:16
and uh
1:20:25
trim it
1:20:34
so I'm just leaving about you know eighth of an inch overhang and then once the lawn again the epoxy
1:20:40
sets up we'll we'll cut it from there
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foreign
1:22:25
side everything's looking really good this Bob I'm coming back to because
1:22:31
I wanted to take my time on it and didn't want to rush there were all of our power cables are
1:22:38
coming to the floor
1:22:44
it's an area we do not want to screw up
1:23:06
and then even if you have a wire coming out the wall if you need to make a little notch
1:23:12
just so that wire is not holding the floor from going down all the way yeah go ahead and do that cut that
1:23:20
put that piece out I mean if it's like a little
1:23:27
just a little bit of nothing
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foreign
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this is what I'm talking about see how if we had the roller in here this would be a lip we want it so it's
1:24:17
flush and flat
1:24:23
but remember you have we've got cables under here so we still need to
1:24:30
they're very they're not they actually can't stand but it's better be paranoid and then cut
1:24:37
through a a wire that you have very difficult access getting to
1:24:43
okay so say we just took this little sliver out but now all this is going flush to the floor
1:24:51
foreign
1:25:06
the whole right side passenger side is done let's go ahead and let's start working
1:25:11
on our driver's side
1:25:34
remember our driver's side has our main power
1:25:43
not only does it have the main power but it has our
1:25:49
our piece of floor for the trim
1:25:55
is visible well not trim is visible the uh
1:26:02
the transition between our lip our powder coated lip and the floor is
1:26:08
visible so try to make that a very accurate cut
1:26:16
so you can do it let's see next you're going to get into this back corner
1:26:26
and what I'm doing I'm just following the coins here so I'm just going to follow them a
1:26:31
little bit and then see where see where I need to go
1:27:42
foreign
1:28:09
harder because we got to be more precise this is where the transition piece between the
1:28:16
adventure wagon and the floor goes
1:28:24
It's gotta be a little bit more precise over here
1:28:38
I cut a little bit more than I wanted to over here I didn't cut it all the way away but this will be a good way to when
1:28:44
we do the epoxy I'll come back over here and I'll show you how we can fix it
1:28:55
yeah let's go down easy keep looking at your uh
1:29:00
where the dots are the lines whatever floor you're using
1:29:07
the other reason I put this line in the middle is because if you have the lines in the
1:29:13
flooring you don't want those lines to be crooked as they go to the back so this My Method will work for pretty much
1:29:20
any floor
1:29:37
and I'm just checking it every so often to make sure I'm not drifting with my cut
1:30:03
foreign
1:30:10
so what I'm going to do here is I'm going to keep coming uh going down these dots
1:30:16
because I know since we put the floor in even I know that this is going to work for
1:30:22
the rest of the floor so I'm just going to do it all the way down and then I'll come in and make my
1:30:30
vertical cuts
1:30:35
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1:33:08
for uh checking them out plus uh yeah all the parts have been vetted by me so it is stuff I literally buying in the
1:33:15
building using in the shop so especially when we get over here to this uh
1:33:22
the power system all the screws nuts lock washers all the stuff for the 80
1:33:28
20. that stuff is on the list if you guys want to find a convenient way to find it
1:33:33
but yeah let's go ahead and uh let's get back to installing this floor
1:33:44
thank you so again what I'm doing is following
1:33:50
for me there's this third coin from the top
1:33:56
it's just allowing me to Cruise right on through here
1:34:02
now if you feel like you're getting excited it's good to be excited but
1:34:08
when you're doing this don't go too fast because we don't want you to get cut
1:34:15
or anything like that because it does take a little bit of an effort as you guys can see in
1:34:22
uh you know cutting this like I'm doing so
1:34:33
okay almost done let's go ahead and finish this piece off
1:34:39
perfect so see very evenly we took off the whole
1:34:45
left hand side we're going to go back to the middle
1:34:54
we had this one column pillar whatever you want to call it but we're just going to come straight down
1:35:02
not all the way again patience is our friend on this build we
1:35:09
do not want to stop the whole video order more stuff because we
1:35:15
got too excited with the process
1:35:22
and you see I cut well you probably can't see but I cut about a half an inch too low
1:35:29
the good news is I'm going to show you tricks on how we are going to conceal
1:35:36
that basically what we're going to do is the epoxy is going to do it for us that slit once the epoxy goes down it's going
1:35:42
to be the same level um but again the leniency part on this
1:35:48
build is that this is all covered up by Adventure wagon interior components
1:35:55
as well as the adventure wagon trim pieces
1:36:01
so we don't really have to be that careful
1:36:06
but the good part is if we are that careful
1:36:11
then we don't have to worry about anything we just keep on trucking
1:36:18
it's right here you do cut here
1:36:23
and be very careful because this is where the heart of the van is it's like the
1:36:29
main artery so our 120 volt lines are right here where
1:36:36
I'm cutting
1:36:44
okay it's nice and easy
1:36:51
we got to about right there again tape is your friend
1:36:58
it's going to help you know if you've you're getting close to
1:37:03
going too far exactly what we want to avoid
1:37:13
okay there we go now this this we are going to cut flush
1:37:19
As We Know what we're doing over here because the wood the wood flooring
1:37:28
is becoming our template
1:37:37
that's going to give us a nice clean Edge but we have our power wires directly
1:37:43
under there so if we were to slip we could cut those that's why we got to be
1:37:49
again just nice and easy
1:37:56
okay and now we can cut this piece out of the
1:38:01
way
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foreign
1:38:38
also the overhang helps you so right here for example this is going to be covered up by 80 20.
1:38:43
but I see a little bit of the white floor the reason we want to always have a
1:38:49
little bit of a eighth of an inch overhang is because when we put the roller on the floor it's going to squeeze out some of the epoxy and it's
1:38:56
going to drip over the edge which is perfectly normal but the issue is if you don't have that lip in my opinion you're
1:39:04
you could roll it some of that epoxy will get on your roller and then when you back roll
1:39:10
that epoxy is going to go on your your brand new floor and that that's not good
1:39:16
so if you do what I just was talking about
1:39:23
um that's that's what I advise that you do
1:39:29
all right it's right here we get the same thing over here
1:39:40
I'm going to make sure that we are cutting this right where we need to
1:39:47
so we've got we found our dots all right I'm just going to follow our dots
1:39:54
that's why it's really important that top to bottom left to right is nice and
1:39:59
uh accurate so that we don't
1:40:04
so that we can take advantage of the grid pattern on the floor
1:40:14
all right Next Step is to not cut our wires our wires back
1:40:20
here so we're going to come straight down on this side very carefully
1:40:35
extremely carefully there you go
1:40:44
okay
1:40:54
and then this one we can kind of play with we can just cut this excess off really quick
1:41:00
get it out of her way
1:41:06
and remember don't worry about this as long as it's not peeling up or good this is not even right here because remember
1:41:13
we're putting a the wheel well cover over there with the insulation
1:41:24
and then here
1:41:30
so I'm not going to cut this back Edge I will cut this corner because I want to do something on this back Edge that
1:41:37
we're saving for another video so right now you're not gonna you're not gonna see me do it but you'll
1:41:43
probably get it I wanna I want to extend the floor out uh a little bit more
1:41:52
because
1:41:58
all right so this one we got to be extra careful we have all of our communication wires right down there
1:42:09
so that's good all right now let's
1:42:15
not that we couldn't have done that before but now let's cut this front piece off
1:42:22
we'll work on our back we'll trim around this back side and uh yeah that'll be that'll be it for this
1:42:28
one
1:42:36
the next time we'll be mixing up our epoxy
1:42:44
putting our floor down triple check your wires
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cool [Applause]
1:44:04
also we got some weather seal or those uh
1:44:10
sales for your van make sure you're not cutting into them this one right over here is really close
1:44:15
to where I need to cut
1:44:48
foreign
1:45:43
guess what guys we made it to the back of the van so what I'm going to do is I'm going to drill uh two more holes
1:45:50
and they're going to be on this outer edge that way I can
1:45:58
we've got our trim piece so it's going to be covered but it's just going to make it easier to
1:46:03
cut this outer piece um actually let's just go for it here
1:46:11
so I'm gonna have to get some more anyway
1:46:21
you can do that if you guys wanted to um
1:46:28
pretty comfortable with how I'm cutting everything right now so I'm just going to do this
1:46:34
free hand on the back
1:46:41
get a better angle here
1:46:46
the camera go down lower can you go down lower
1:46:56
ah there we go
1:47:09
actually I bet I didn't change the camera angle that thing was going crazy guys so
1:47:15
sorry if it was zooming in and out a bunch
1:48:23
that's it all right we did it
1:48:31
cut the floor out
1:48:39
so this is what I mean by
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there you go oh all right this is what I mean by
1:48:53
trimming the floor out everything in here now can lay very flat
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we've got our locator pins I guess that we call it our screws so we got one in
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the front taped one in the back taped the floor is also marked
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so the only thing that we need to be cautious of is there is just the slightest the
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slightest little you know rip on the floor and that's just because it's not completely laid out
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so I'm just going to leave this here until we do the epoxy and I'll I'll take it out and blow it out and then we'll do
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the epoxy but this
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um so front back this is going to allow us to put this back
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in its own position when we get done so next video will be actually doing the
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epoxy so this will be it for this video we'll just call this the video to show
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you guys how to trim out the floor your flooring before you put it in I highly suggest you do this because
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as I said this whole thing the raised up Corners not allowing that to really contact your adhesive it dries and then
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now you get this curl that won't ever go down um this is just my personal opinion the
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best method so I hope this guy hope this helps you guys if you're doing a DIY floor
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yourself or you're just interested in building a van out and wanting to see how to do
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it if you have any questions put those in the comments below uh definitely like to see
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those comments because it helps me decide you know where we need to put stuff for future videos or write stuff
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for future videos be sure to check out van builderhq.com we get some good blog posts on there for
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you guys to read through and that is it for putting the floor in
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and prepping it with trimming up all the edges foreign
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and once again don't forget to check out the DIY van build cheat sheet
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to them and we will see you guys in the next live stream
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