I was thinking about doing this too, but with the sort of inexpensive wood laminate from Home Depot. Real oak would be a lot better though. My weather conditions are mild enough that I might be able to use the laminate, but I will investigate this further.

I moved from California last year, but I used to go reasonably frequently to the lumber yards there, one excellent wood for this purpose was called "iron-wood" dark but very hard and dense and a lot less expensive than oak. I am not sure how easy it will be to find iron-wood in Texas.

I also thought some stringers running in the cross direction would be needed to do this, but this detail was not in the link. Stringers or ply underlayment.

I would like to ask how well this fits in with the metal edges, (metal lip) especially around the van sliding door. And I was wondering how to attach the flooring material to the van bottom pan - sheet metal screws? Didn't see any indication of how the flooring was set into the van bottom pan - which indicates  very good craftsmanship.

Again my plan was to cover the wood floor center with one of those larger rubber nylon carpet matts used commercially.

Thanks for putting this up - great job! Any further details would be interesting to hear about.

Leslie

----- Original Message ----
From: Nathaniel Poole <npoole@TELUS.NET>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Saturday, January 6, 2007 6:45:47 PM
Subject: <no subject>

I got motivated today. Funny how it's so much quicker and easier to rip
stuff out than put it back in.

http://www.thesamba.com/vw/forum/viewtopic.php?t=212483

Nathaniel