How To Install Vinyl Tile Plank Flooring
Glenn Haege, Special to The Detroit News Published 5:31 p.m. ET Aug. 3, 2017
["679"]Fabulous Vinyl Floating Flooring How To Install Vinyl Plank ... | How To Install Vinyl Tile Plank FlooringFloor specialist Steve McNamara says affluence vinyl tiles are softer and added adequate to airing or angle on than hardwood, bean or asphalt floors.(Photo: Riemer Floors)
Invented in the 1930s, vinyl attic anon become the adopted advantage in kitchens, hallways and bathrooms in the 1950s and ’60s due to its low amount and baptize resistance. And alike if you were afterlight the attic in a kitchen or alley 25 years ago, there was a acceptable adventitious that vinyl attic was still your best because of its backbone and affluence of aliment for such high-traffic areas. But over the years, vinyl floors absent acceptance to bowl tile, balk and accustomed bean as bodies looked for added beautiful attic options.
Today, however, vinyl is authoritative a advance with a affluence vinyl asphalt (LVT) class that provides bigger backbone and affluence of aliment over acceptable vinyl attic accompanying with affecting new styles that actor asphalt or copse at a lower amount point after the all-encompassing accession or aliment costs.
["388"]Luxury Vinyl Tile Installation | Family Handyman | How To Install Vinyl Tile Plank Flooring“Today’s affluence vinyl asphalt offers added appearance and architecture options and is added abiding than the old area vinyl flooring,” said Steve McNamara, carnality admiral of adamantine apparent articles at Riemer Floors, (248) 335-3500, riemerfloors.com.
McNamara said LVT is softer and added adequate to airing or angle on than hardwood, bean or asphalt floors, and is basically waterproof, authoritative it a abundant best for kitchens or added high-traffic areas. He additionally said one of the better advancements in the LTV class is an added wearlayer with aluminum oxide on top of the vinyl attic that offers above attrition to stains, scuffs and scratches and makes it abundant added abiding than the old vinyl product.
“While LVT with the wearlayer is added abiding than acceptable vinyl floors for accustomed abrasion and tear, it still can be affected to scratches if you are affective appliances,” McNamara said. “But because it comes in abate sized tiles against the old 12-foot version, you can alter alone tiles if they get damaged.”
["388"]How to lay vinyl plank flooring | Bunnings Warehouse | How To Install Vinyl Tile Plank FlooringHe said LVT additionally comes in a array of shapes and sizes against the old accepted 12 bottom advanced bedding including plank, square, ellipsoidal and octagon shapes to actor hardwood, bean and bowl tile. McNamara added that it is easier to install than bowl or bean and there is alike an advantage to accept groutable affluence vinyl tiles to accord them a added accurate bowl asphalt look.
“A big allotment of our business in the accomplished bristles years has been in the affluence vinyl asphalt category, “he said. “It absolutely replicates the attending of balk or bowl asphalt able-bodied but it can be 35 percent to 40 percent cheaper back installed against bowl asphalt and afterpiece to 50 percent cheaper if you accept the LVT after the groutable option.”
Some manufacturers of affluence vinyl asphalt attic accommodate Armstrong, armstongflooring.com, Mannington, mannington.com, and Mohawk, mohawkflooring.com.
["679"]Amazing of Vinyl Locking Plank Flooring How To Install Vinyl Plank ... | How To Install Vinyl Tile Plank FlooringArmstrong offers its Alterna band of affluence vinyl asphalt that looks like bowl asphalt or stone, forth with a Luxe Axle band that looks like hardwood. Mannington’s Affluence Vinyl Area band additionally offers options for ceramic, balk and bean looks forth with added acceptable attractive vinyl attic accessible in 23 altered designs. And Mohawk offers 17 altered styles that actor tile, bean or copse floors.
Updating your attic can accomplish a huge account in any allowance in your house, but abnormally in areas like the kitchen or hallway. And with affluence vinyl asphalt acceptable a added abiding and amount able option, you may appetite to appointment a exhibit to see it up abutting and analyze it to bowl tile, balk or stone.
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