Gerald:
Having worked with the stuff a bit, I'm not worried. First, it's heavy.
Second, there's a lot of friction in the contact with the underlying foam.
Third, in an A/S application, you'd caulk around the entire perimeter,
preventing any fore and aft or sideways movement. Fifth, I don't think it
would rise any, because with the caulk around the edge, it's pretty
airtight. THere's just no way for large amounts of air to get between the
pergo and the subfloor, at least not fast enough to permit "flying" over
bumps. All theory, of course, as I've never sat in a pergo-equiped airstream
at speed over bumps, but pretty sound theory, I believe. Unless, I guess,
the subfloor flexes quite a bit, which I think would cause problems, pergo
or no.
Dan
> From: "Dr. Gerald N. Johnson, electrical engineer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2001 09:23:45 -0500
> To: Multiple recipients of VACList <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [VAC] Re: Pergo
>
> I'm concerned that a floating floor like Pergo will float up and down
> and all around on rough roads and if not under walls, cabinets and
> anchored furnishings will rise several inches scaring walls and cabinet
> faces as it returns to about where it was before each bump. And even if
> kept from flying up, it will shift for and aft and side to side,
> sometimes violently and work on punching through the retaining walls.
> Some of the wall materials in an A/S are not as hard as Pergo laminate.
>
> It just seems to me that a loose floor in a trailer on the road will
> chew the trailer to a frazzle. Might be super in Dan's office, but on
> the road I think its a disaster in the making.
>
> Gerald J.
>
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