You may not know what you're doing. But what you ARE definitely doing is helping me see that I can do this, by myself!!!! Love it. Keep up the great work.
If you unscrew the foot plates at the side doors and rear hatch and tuck the flooring underneath it it will hold it in place in those areas allowing you to enter and exit with out tripping. I know it is too late now, but if you ever replace the flooring keep this in mind.😀
Another cheap way to do floors for a space that small is a sheet of the cheapest plywood from Home Depot (~$10) and a sheet of “nicer” looking thin plywood (i used 5.2mm, $16 for a sheet). Cut both to the size of your floor space and then glue them to each other with wood glue. Use thin finishing nails to make sure the pieces of wood seal together without gaps. Seal it with a semi gloss polyurethane to make it relatively water proof. If you wanted to save cost of not buying a jig saw, you could cut the plywood with a hack saw. I like what you did also though! I didn’t know you could buy vinyl in sheets like that.
could also skip the top layer of ply wood and use the vinal in place to give that vinal flooring look and would cut back on the weight of dual layered plywood
I just watched your video on 4 years sober. I thing you might be at 5 by now. Excellent pro/con list. I think your have a great understanding of your changes since sobriety. I will be rooting for you from now on. I have made it to year 37 and can barely remember who I was before getting sober. I only know that I still love e my life even though I'm 77 and just suffered thru 4 years of care taking of my Husband. He is now in Memory care and my life is blooming again. I will be joining you on the road sometime next fall. My Bill still remembers who I am and I don't want to leave him long periods of time. Keep up your process of flowering into the rest of your life. I'll be watching you.
Good job! One thing I would suggest when doing the vinyl flooring: lay a bunch of newspaper in the back and tape it together and trim it to the exact size that you want the vinyl to be. Then use it as a template on top of the vinyl and cut it. Then there's no question that you will have the perfect size and cuts. 😉
T-Bone... Saving Your Idea for later... Thanks... Sweetie... i still don’t know Your Name... You’re doing a Fantastic Job... I’m 67... trying to get a Van... You said Something about... cushioned floors... and Your Knees... Thank You... for Making Me Stop and Think about that... My Knees need a lot of Cushion I Love Your Channel... Keep up The Gray Work... ❤️💕💜☮️🧚🏻♀️
You did an awesome job and you have shown how easy it can be with basic skills and tools. Thank you for taking us along and showing all of us the ropes so that we can begin right where we are. Thank you for your channel.
I have been watching My Basic Journey for several months and finally searched for your website and was delighted to find how you built your van. I love your videos and watch one just about every night; Just so much more uplifting than the nightly news. Please keep it up and I would love to donate to you for what you have given me, I will look for how to do that.
Thank u 4 this vid!! I've had my van almost 2 months n just thru a throw rug dwn 4 now cuz I'm so afraid 2 tackle this!! Thanx 4 the help n i LOVE ur flooring style!!
I am so glad you are doing these videos. I have been wanting to do this and I was overwhelmed with how people were spending 40-60K on these van builds in expensive sprinters and I was like how would I afford that and this makes since. I am feeling so much more confident in just getting something less expensive and just doing what I can do and when I have more saved then get more later. These videos are a life saver. Thanks.
Wow your bed making video led me to this - your fantastic & ingenious idea for flooring! OK so now I need to go watch all ur videos from the beginning so I don't miss any great creative ideas. Keep that camera rolling!
First let me say I love your channel and I think your a very courageous women. I think your doing an awesome job getting your life back together after your health issues but, i'm concerned about mold under your floor please be careful and keep up the good work!
Haha thank you so much! I really should stop doubting myself, but I'm definitely no expert in any of this van stuff. Learning so much every day, though!! 💖
Girl, I loved this one. BTW I'm in Portland & retiring soon and am thinking of doing the same as you. Have watched beaucoup videos myself.....but my "handy skills" are no better than yours. The two most important thoughts that I've gleaned from all the videos I've seen are; start out with the most basic rig and out fit it with what you already own....and see if you really enjoy this (life style?). Second; 95% of the folks that like it, change their rig after one year. Even if they bought a sweet already customized van/trailer/camper.
Good Luck... Brian... you have probably started on your VanLife Journey by Now... Hope Retirement & VanLife are both Treating You Great... I’m 67 saving all i can to get a Van... i Have Watched 100’s Of video’s... i don’t Remember this Young Ladies Name... But i Love Her Down to Earth Videos... but... Sometimes it’s hard to get through the Potty Mouth... But... I Still Love Her... She Does A Great Job... Again... Good Luck 🍀 Brian...
@@debbielicona5030 I bought the foam pieces at a store named Bargain Hunt and don’t remember the price to be honest but it may have taken 12-16 pieces, it made a huge difference especially when you are on your knees. If I get to go tent camping this summer I will take them for my floor.
Toatally fabbo my favorite lil pilgrim .. never did done see a pink screwdriver before .. or a pink handydandy utility knife.. gosh .. its all happenings ..😁
hi. my name is adrienne. i am in eugene. i saw your video and wanted to say hi. your videos are pretty cool, love exploring, minimalism, and creating. look forward to more videos!
Hi Adrienne! Thank you so much. This is much appreciated. That's so awesome you're in Eugene. Do you live in the area, or just visiting? I love it here, so beautiful. (:
Nice work. It's good thing the floor on those Caravans is pretty level (or looks level), the floor on my 2010 Odyssey was a nightmare, sloping with lots of ridges and rises.
Next time you make a floor get some butcher paper and draw out the floor or you could have used the rubber mat as a template. I don't know what I'm doing either. On top of that I have sore loose tendons in my wrists and arthritis. But I plan on doing something like this.
It's fine for what you wanted, you could have watched other videos and it would have helped you out a lot with a template to get it exact. You should tuck the vinyl under the existing molding in the van. Awesome sauce 👌🏽
I'm just laying down a sheet of 1/2" plywood as a floor; already removed those plastic seat railing things(come on payday! lol). Gonna cover the plywood with a real short pile carpet, maybe like a beige or gray indoor/outdoor carpet. If I wanna add some color/style I can always put down some decorative throw rugs or something.
If you ever need to do this again and you want a close fit, make a template first from craft paper. Use packing tape to join pieces together to cover the width and length of your floor. Then tape it down so it won't slide around and push the paper into the corners and sides and crease it real hard. Then cut the paper out along the creases. If it needs a little adjusting you can add strips with tape or cut to fit as needed. When your template fits nicely to the contours of your floor, lay the template on your vinyl, trace the edges and cut the vinyl along your trace lines.
Looks great! Have you thought about getting some type of edging and glueing it down around the edges? It would look really nice and cover any little miss cuts.
Maybe spray glue for the vinyl to the pad so it's less Lumpy but I super appreciate this video. Haven't done my build yet but defintley going to make a video!!
I have pretty severe sensory issues so I had to click the volume completely off because of the loudness differential between the music and voice parts of the video but I think I got a pretty good idea of the method from watching with the sound off
I'm getting ready to do my Honda Odyssey minivan but my floor slopes so badly toward the passenger and driver seat that I'm going to have to fill that space with something! I'm not really sure I want to use that gap sealer all over the carpet! 🤣💜 You did an awesome job!
Doing an Odyssey myself the flooring design from factory is a b$&@h 🙄 I'm just hoping to level from side to side as front to back seems to be a fools errand
For next time 😊 I saw someone use a gauge like this... They used scrap cardboard and traced on it to get the template and used that to cut the vinyl ... It still wasn't totally perfect, but seemed easier. I got one, even though I might not be ready to use it for awhile... I'm hoping to use it to wrap my bed frame around those bulky caravan extreme wheel wells... so obnoxious lol I have stow seats too, trying to figure out if I'm leaving them in, or if I really want the trunk space. Feeling daunted about covering up the extraction mess though. Really loved seeing you take this challenge head on ♡ smile.amazon.com/Upgrade-Version-Duplications-Measuring-Contoured/dp/B07ZKSHTBZ
Hey I was going to ask you if your van didn't come with storage under the floor minded but mine is a 2014 but is the same as yours Dodge caravan. When I took all the seats out I actually had plenty of storage under my floor I love it
I have that problem too. The mini van has the floor hoops where the seats grab on. They are higher than the rest of the floor. I need to figure out what to fill in that gap with on the entire floor before doing foam insulation and plywood
Did you use anything to secure the rubber mat first? How did you end up securing the vinyl? Duct tape? Going through a van build and your videos have been so helpful!!
I'm having such a hard time with this. I need to floor the back of my Dodge Grand Caravan. I've looked at carpet runners. Uline rubber mats. Gymnastic mats. Just found this.
Nice floor! Looks really great but since you covered and filled in all those metal plates in the floors which fastened down your seats, what are you lashing down your bed and other gear with for safety if you have something like a sudden stop or an emergency like a roll-over?
Since you live in a really small space instead of a landery basket I'd use an old pillow case to put clothes in that are dirty easy to put away than when its time to wash your clothes you wash the pillow case as well than dry it and you put your clothes clean in it clean just saves space
I'm trying to figure out how I want to do the flooring with stow n go. I think I might just cut the vinyl piece around the stow n go and add a very thin piece of soft foam on the back of the vinyl flooring.
Vacuum all the shit. 🤭🤗 Great job. That's my next step in my SUV, the flooring. Cheap, easy is the way to go. How is the vinyl holding up after two years from heat & cold?
@@MyBasicJourney Thanks! Let us know. I read online that Coroplast plastic cardboard (the material used in signs) work well under the floor to air it out and prevent mold
You may not know what you're doing. But what you ARE definitely doing is helping me see that I can do this, by myself!!!! Love it. Keep up the great work.
Thank you! That's so awesome. ❤❤❤😊
If you unscrew the foot plates at the side doors and rear hatch and tuck the flooring underneath it it will hold it in place in those areas allowing you to enter and exit with out tripping. I know it is too late now, but if you ever replace the flooring keep this in mind.😀
Great tip.
Thanks Soul Explorer! I will save your tip. Appreciate it!
Double sided carpet tape would hold the vinyl in place from underneath, and not be visible. Good job!
Another cheap way to do floors for a space that small is a sheet of the cheapest plywood from Home Depot (~$10) and a sheet of “nicer” looking thin plywood (i used 5.2mm, $16 for a sheet). Cut both to the size of your floor space and then glue them to each other with wood glue. Use thin finishing nails to make sure the pieces of wood seal together without gaps. Seal it with a semi gloss polyurethane to make it relatively water proof. If you wanted to save cost of not buying a jig saw, you could cut the plywood with a hack saw. I like what you did also though! I didn’t know you could buy vinyl in sheets like that.
Too bad plywood isn't $16 bucks anymore! It's $50-65 now in California.
could also skip the top layer of ply wood and use the vinal in place to give that vinal flooring look
and would cut back on the weight of dual layered plywood
I just watched your video on 4 years sober. I thing you might be at 5 by now. Excellent pro/con list. I think your have a great understanding of your changes since sobriety. I will be rooting for you from now on. I have made it to year 37 and can barely remember who I was before getting sober. I only know that I still love e my life even though I'm 77 and just suffered thru 4 years of care taking of my Husband. He is now in Memory care and my life is blooming again. I will be joining you on the road sometime next fall. My Bill still remembers who I am and I don't want to leave him long periods of time. Keep up your process of flowering into the rest of your life. I'll be watching you.
Good job! One thing I would suggest when doing the vinyl flooring: lay a bunch of newspaper in the back and tape it together and trim it to the exact size that you want the vinyl to be. Then use it as a template on top of the vinyl and cut it. Then there's no question that you will have the perfect size and cuts. 😉
Thanks! It's already done, but I appreciate the tip. (:
Saving your idea for the future T Bone, thanks!!
T-Bone... Saving Your Idea for later... Thanks...
Sweetie... i still don’t know Your Name... You’re doing a Fantastic Job... I’m 67... trying to get a Van... You said Something about... cushioned floors... and Your Knees... Thank You... for Making Me Stop and Think about that...
My Knees need a lot of Cushion
I Love Your Channel... Keep up
The Gray Work... ❤️💕💜☮️🧚🏻♀️
Great job! I love your enthusiasm, your willingness to try and I hope your van camper conversion is successful. You are an inspiration!
Well Done! I would not even begin to know how to start. You're so confident. Good information. Thanks for sharing.
🌵🌼🌴🌟❤
You did an awesome job and you have shown how easy it can be with basic skills and tools. Thank you for taking us along and showing all of us the ropes so that we can begin right where we are. Thank you for your channel.
I am subscribed to quite a few van dwellers and have watched a few Van builds. I say you did a good job.
I have been watching My Basic Journey for several months and finally searched for your website and was delighted to find how you built your van. I love your videos and watch one just about every night; Just so much more uplifting than the nightly news. Please keep it up and I would love to donate to you for what you have given me, I will look for how to do that.
Thank u 4 this vid!! I've had my van almost 2 months n just thru a throw rug dwn 4 now cuz I'm so afraid 2 tackle this!! Thanx 4 the help n i LOVE ur flooring style!!
This was exactly what I did lol it's super easy and I keep it clean with cats and they don't scratch it up at all.
I am so glad you are doing these videos. I have been wanting to do this and I was overwhelmed with how people were spending 40-60K on these van builds in expensive sprinters and I was like how would I afford that and this makes since. I am feeling so much more confident in just getting something less expensive and just doing what I can do and when I have more saved then get more later. These videos are a life saver. Thanks.
I love doing van and car and truck projects I think it's very attractive when women do that as well and can use tools
Love it girl. I'm planning my own van floor and I like your simple solution. Got good ideas thanks
U know that black mat? I would have used that for a template. You did a great job on giving us knowledge and courage to get out there and just do it!!
u are sexy af
I think you did a great job and I applaud your independence!
Had to go back 2 years to see how the magic all started... love your channel ❤
Wow your bed making video led me to this - your fantastic & ingenious idea for flooring! OK so now I need to go watch all ur videos from the beginning so I don't miss any great creative ideas. Keep that camera rolling!
💖💖💖
This chick's awesome, great channel
First let me say I love your channel and I think your a very courageous women. I think your doing an awesome job getting your life back together after your health issues but, i'm concerned about mold under your floor please be careful and keep up the good work!
Stop saying u don't know what ur doing cuz ur doing a great job. Woman power with pink tools🔨💗
Haha thank you so much! I really should stop doubting myself, but I'm definitely no expert in any of this van stuff. Learning so much every day, though!! 💖
I give an A+ for authenticity. 👍
2nd time to watch...I'm gonna try it....I know you made it work...👍👍
Girl, I loved this one. BTW I'm in Portland & retiring soon and am thinking of doing the same as you. Have watched beaucoup videos myself.....but my "handy skills" are no better than yours. The two most important thoughts that I've gleaned from all the videos I've seen are; start out with the most basic rig and out fit it with what you already own....and see if you really enjoy this (life style?). Second; 95% of the folks that like it, change their rig after one year. Even if they bought a sweet already customized van/trailer/camper.
Good Luck... Brian... you have probably started on your VanLife Journey by Now...
Hope Retirement & VanLife are both Treating You Great...
I’m 67 saving all i can to get a Van... i Have Watched 100’s
Of video’s... i don’t Remember this Young Ladies Name... But i Love Her Down to Earth Videos... but... Sometimes it’s hard to get through the Potty Mouth... But... I Still Love Her...
She Does A Great Job...
Again... Good Luck 🍀 Brian...
Yay another good video!! And Joseph of course!
Thank you, from Joey and I. (:
I'm planning on a Astro. This will be my floor. You did good!
I bought some of the foam puzzles to try and put in for flooring, hoping I can get it level.
That's a great idea!
I'm doing a polyisol foam board then flooring then those mats do exa cushion..then I'm just gonna plop my bed on the floor when needed..👍✌💖😊
That is a great idea as well , how much to cover a van floor was it for the foam puzzles
@@debbielicona5030 I bought the foam pieces at a store named Bargain Hunt and don’t remember the price to be honest but it may have taken 12-16 pieces, it made a huge difference especially when you are on your knees. If I get to go tent camping this summer I will take them for my floor.
I got some to & hoping the same thing guess we'll know when we do it ....
I'm going back to your older videos. Love them.
May you Love it for a very long time.
awesome job for first time ! ! loved . Great idea for my new 2022 KIA carnival.
This is so helpful for me. Come Spring I need to do the same process... only I'll need a bed for two.
Best part of the video was the pink screwdriver. Great job.
Excellent job! I'm impressed with your clever ideas!
You’re doing just fine!
You did a good job on the flooring. Looks great ❤
Your doggo is super cute.
Toatally fabbo my favorite lil pilgrim .. never did done see a pink screwdriver before .. or a pink handydandy utility knife.. gosh .. its all happenings ..😁
Haha i did the same and no skills either. I learned eveything on youtube university ang just winged it lol
I’m doing the same next week I’m nervous lol but I have STOW N GO seats so more of a challenge if I take them out
Yay . Great job
Joey is so sweet...
hi. my name is adrienne. i am in eugene. i saw your video and wanted to say hi. your videos are pretty cool, love exploring, minimalism, and creating. look forward to more videos!
Hi Adrienne! Thank you so much. This is much appreciated.
That's so awesome you're in Eugene. Do you live in the area, or just visiting? I love it here, so beautiful. (:
The rubber mat would've been a nice template for most of the flooring shape.
Very nice
Nice color of floor tile
Good job
You did a great job for a newbie! Good luck and and a job well done. I'm a newbie too.
Good job 👏
You dog never complains
Like the style and colors
Thank you!
Nice work. It's good thing the floor on those Caravans is pretty level (or looks level), the floor on my 2010 Odyssey was a nightmare, sloping with lots of ridges and rises.
Next time you make a floor get some butcher paper and draw out the floor or you could have used the rubber mat as a template. I don't know what I'm doing either. On top of that I have sore loose tendons in my wrists and arthritis. But I plan on doing something like this.
I’m loving that top.
I want to try this in my daily driver, minivan. Kids can make a real mess lol
Strong Work!! 💪🏻 💪🏻. Very impressive! Thanks for sharing! 🙏🌅🚗🥾🌞
It seems to be a good idea. You are doing this economically and it will look nice. It will keep out some of the cold as well when the time comes.
Good job, and I like the flooring! Excellent choice.
You did a great job for not knowing what ur doing keep up the great job
It's fine for what you wanted, you could have watched other videos and it would have helped you out a lot with a template to get it exact. You should tuck the vinyl under the existing molding in the van. Awesome sauce 👌🏽
Turned out great 👍🤟✌️
I just noticed two years ago! Wow I wonder how you’re going now? Gonna binge watch n hope to see
Sounds like your on the right track, I wish you the best of luck
You should have baught plywood not a rubber mat ....oh well maybe next time.
Watching this makes me feel like I can do this too ✌️
Not a bad idea. Good job!
I'm just laying down a sheet of 1/2" plywood as a floor; already removed those plastic seat railing things(come on payday! lol). Gonna cover the plywood with a real short pile carpet, maybe like a beige or gray indoor/outdoor carpet. If I wanna add some color/style I can always put down some decorative throw rugs or something.
If you ever need to do this again and you want a close fit, make a template first from craft paper. Use packing tape to join pieces together to cover the width and length of your floor.
Then tape it down so it won't slide around and push the paper into the corners and sides and crease it real hard.
Then cut the paper out along the creases. If it needs a little adjusting you can add strips with tape or cut to fit as needed.
When your template fits nicely to the contours of your floor, lay the template on your vinyl, trace the edges and cut the vinyl along your trace lines.
For u not know what ur doing. You did a wonderful job 😍
These videos are so helpful I have the same van but it is stow and go seats so if I remove them there is a crap ton of storage space
Looks great! Have you thought about getting some type of edging and glueing it down around the edges? It would look really nice and cover any little miss cuts.
You can trim the vinyl use it for other projects:)
Man, I should have kept it. I just threw the scraps out. (:
Lol
Love this video! You are an inspiration ❤️
You did great job. Good luck on the build
Maybe spray glue for the vinyl to the pad so it's less Lumpy but I super appreciate this video. Haven't done my build yet but defintley going to make a video!!
I have pretty severe sensory issues so I had to click the volume completely off because of the loudness differential between the music and voice parts of the video but I think I got a pretty good idea of the method from watching with the sound off
Great job!
Really good job😀💜👍
P.S. I have fallen in love with Joey
Excellent 👍
I'm getting ready to do my Honda Odyssey minivan but my floor slopes so badly toward the passenger and driver seat that I'm going to have to fill that space with something! I'm not really sure I want to use that gap sealer all over the carpet! 🤣💜 You did an awesome job!
Doing an Odyssey myself the flooring design from factory is a b$&@h 🙄 I'm just hoping to level from side to side as front to back seems to be a fools errand
👍
Thank you so much for sharing this. You have gave me some good ideas.
You're gorgeous 😍
Nice job and video ;)
Thanks- I was wondering hot to do this.
For next time 😊
I saw someone use a gauge like this... They used scrap cardboard and traced on it to get the template and used that to cut the vinyl ...
It still wasn't totally perfect, but seemed easier. I got one, even though I might not be ready to use it for awhile... I'm hoping to use it to wrap my bed frame around those bulky caravan extreme wheel wells... so obnoxious lol
I have stow seats too, trying to figure out if I'm leaving them in, or if I really want the trunk space. Feeling daunted about covering up the extraction mess though. Really loved seeing you take this challenge head on ♡
smile.amazon.com/Upgrade-Version-Duplications-Measuring-Contoured/dp/B07ZKSHTBZ
Hey I was going to ask you if your van didn't come with storage under the floor minded but mine is a 2014 but is the same as yours Dodge caravan. When I took all the seats out I actually had plenty of storage under my floor I love it
I have that problem too. The mini van has the floor hoops where the seats grab on. They are higher than the rest of the floor. I need to figure out what to fill in that gap with on the entire floor before doing foam insulation and plywood
Did you use anything to secure the rubber mat first? How did you end up securing the vinyl? Duct tape? Going through a van build and your videos have been so helpful!!
You missed a spot! Lol
I'm having such a hard time with this. I need to floor the back of my Dodge Grand Caravan. I've looked at carpet runners. Uline rubber mats. Gymnastic mats. Just found this.
Nice floor! Looks really great but since you covered and filled in all those metal plates in the floors which fastened down your seats, what are you lashing down your bed and other gear with for safety if you have something like a sudden stop or an emergency like a roll-over?
Since you live in a really small space instead of a landery basket I'd use an old pillow case to put clothes in that are dirty easy to put away than when its time to wash your clothes you wash the pillow case as well than dry it and you put your clothes clean in it clean just saves space
I have a laundry bag!! It even has a space to hold the laundry soap bottle and a small pouch for quarters! 💖
Found a 2008 Kia Sedona with 55,000 miles for $7495. Would like to get it but.....
Did you get it? Sounded like a good deal.
I'm trying to figure out how I want to do the flooring with stow n go. I think I might just cut the vinyl piece around the stow n go and add a very thin piece of soft foam on the back of the vinyl flooring.
Did you ever figure this out? I have stow n go flooring and want to still be able to access the storage under the flooring.
I'm having the same issue. Can you tell me what you did please
Vacuum all the shit. 🤭🤗 Great job. That's my next step in my SUV, the flooring. Cheap, easy is the way to go. How is the vinyl holding up after two years from heat & cold?
Your videos are wonderful. I was just wondering...do you had a length and width measurement of the interior?
From the seats to the back window is approximately 4ft x 8ft.
Thank you! 💖✌
@@MyBasicJourney thank you so very much beautiful
Great job on your flooring. Where did you get the rubber mat?
She got it at Home Depot. $60. at the beginning of the video.
How is the floor holding up? I'm really curious.
Really good so far! Will probably have to replaced the duct tape in a while or just figure out how to put it under the plastic siding. (:
@@MyBasicJourney O good. I'm sure you'll figure something out.
So...I wanna do something like this myself, but wonder...have you noticed any mold issues with this?
Not yet, but it has only been a year. I'll keep you updated.(:
@@MyBasicJourney Thanks! Let us know. I read online that Coroplast plastic cardboard (the material used in signs) work well under the floor to air it out and prevent mold
@@greggunninghamkite1079 Thanks for the info!
how do you secure the contents of the van with this type of flooring?