Vinyl Flooring

[mac78]

Has anyone used this or a similar product. We need to replace our family room carpet, it is so so bad. I keep going back to thinking I want laminate. While the laminate itself is not that expensive, the labor to install it is. I have come across this vinyl flooring, and wondering how good it will hold up in a family room/daycare room. I think I could do it myself since it is peel n stick.


Novalis Oak Vinyl Plank.....4" x 36"
http://www.lowes.com/pc_Vinyl+Flooring+and+Accessories_4294856531_42949 37087_

Another question....my kitchen does have laminate in it, so if I put vinyl peel n stick in the family room, will that look out of place since they won't be the same thing.

The reviews I have read are pretty good.

[ChapterTwo]

All I know is that I had Armstrong peel and stick tiles in the kitchen, which had a lot of traffic back then, and the pattern sort of wore off over time in the spot in front of the counter. Not sure how long their warranty was (if there was one) but I was moving soon anyway, and it didn't matter to me. It was over a course of maybe 6 years.

[vintage girl]

Marie,

I have that exact same flooring in my bird room where I keep my rescue birds. It gets beat to heck due to all the mess in there from seed, water, etc. It has held up fantastic. Very easy to install. You do want to make sure that your floor is level. If you want it to match your kitchen, you could put this in your kitchen also. It can be put right over just about any surface. I have not had even a corner peel up and it has been down for over 5 years. Cleans up beautifully also.:)

[mac78]

I have laminate flooring in my kitchen now, and would never put it in there again due to water issues. I also wonder if it would look ok to have the vinyl in 1 room and the laminate in the other.

[vintage girl]

I think that would be perfectly ok. I have vinyl in my kitchen (looks like wood) and I have wood parquet in the rest of the house. Looks just fine:) Also the floor you are considering is very easy to install. Hubs and I did a 200 sq foot area in less than an hour:)

[jamesmrosas]

Having a laminate flooring on the kitchen is a bad thing. Water residue will leak out under it. I better recommend putting vinyl flooring in the kitchen because it is easy to clean where there's a mess and laminate floor in the family room.

[memmey]

I wish I could change my floor in my utility room. When Chev was little there was tiny tear in the vinyl and he used his little chicklet teeth to tear a bigger place . I tried to cut it out and patch it...bad idea. The floor is a mess and it is the laundry /dog room so I have left it . One pup is 13 and the other 8 so one day I will have my laundry back.
So finally here is the question.:o Under this torn roll out vinyl seems to be an old floor of hard lineolum that was put down ontop of the wooden floor. How in the world will I get that off. There is nothing in the that old floor to hurt me when I tear it off do you think? What did they make that out of?
Do I just shovel it up AND I wonder if you can just shovel it up? Sounds like a job for professionals BUT they won't do it for $6 so it might be me and me with the help of me.
Nothing is toxic in that do you think?????

[vintage girl]

Memmey,

Yes basically you do "shovel" it up. We had old linoleum under our carpet. It was installed right onto our cement slab. Was a you know what to get up. We actually did use shovels to tear it up and take it out. Our house is from 1950, so not sure if there was anything harmful in the adhesive or not. We did not worry about it at the time, just wore masks. We are still here, so I guess it was ok:eek: The hardest part was cleaning off all the residue on the cement slap. You cannot lay anything over the slab until it is smooth. But all of our hardwork turned out wonderful. We put in a glue down wood parquet and we love it. Was a lot of work as we did the entire house except for the bathroom and kitchen. :)

[CohenCottage]

Memmy, you should probably test the linoleum for asbestos before you start shoveling. We had that problem in a Habitat for Humanity renovation one time, and we ended up just having to cover the floor up b/c it couldn't be removed by volunteers.

[yarborough house]

We removed it in the entry of the house next door. The tiles did have a very small amount of asbestos we found out after we tore them out..but not problems. They told us afterwards unless we ground it up into tiny pieces it would not hurt us..just throwing that out there.

[jamesmrosas]

Yes I agree with you cohencottage. It should be a prerequisite to avoid health issue.

[chyna]

If it is true linoleum you shouldn't have a problem Mem. Now the adhesive could be another problem. I have no idea what was used for that but have heard it is a tar like substance. heat with a heat gun and it should scrape up or I think there is a water treatment. I have that stuff that looks like little pebbles, very dismayed to find out it probably has asbestoes in it. Nothing like messing up my renovating plans. :o:D