Procedure of Installing Loose Lay Vinyl Flooring in Home Floors

Vinyl flooring is a new type of flooring in the market. Nowadays it has become very popular among all the other available material. Vinyl flooring is very easy to maintain, scratch resistant and durable and even you don’t have to spend much time on installation.  It's a new artificial composition in flooring materials along with rubber, plastic, linoleum, and PVC. Vinyl flooring can be done in two ways that are by using vinyl sheets with adhesive and vinyl sheets without adhesive (loose lay vinyl sheets). If anyone has to be chosen, vinyl sheets are used more than vinyl tiles. Getting into further details about this kind of flooring, more knowledge can be retained on this subject. You can install loose lay vinyl flooring on already existing flooring.

Loose Lay Vinyl

Types of Loose Lay Vinyl Flooring

• Vinyl sheets: the sheets are more preferred than the planks. If floors have to prevent by seams which seep water, then, the vinyl sheets are more preferable. It provides more comfort in walking and also leads to the only small amount of insulation.
• Vinyl planks: the planks are sometimes also called, luxury tiles. They are thick vinyl strips which are installed in the floors with strip locking mechanism. This gives the look and durability of hardwood.
• Vinyl tiles: these are more expensive than the vinyl sheets. They offer a lot of more designs and styles than the vinyl sheets and vinyl planks. They are the most common choice for homeowners.

Pros and Cons of Loose Lay Vinyl Flooring

• No expansion and contraction in the size due to change in temperature
• Easy to uninstall
• Affordable and easy to maintain
• Moisture resistant
• Sound absorber

Lack of formats and designs. These are mainly done with planks which are a bit difficult to install. Therefore, there should be an intermediate for it like vinyl tiles. Leads to seams development when installing in small areas like kitchens.

Installation of Loose Lay Vinyl Flooring

• Material required: scissors, utility knife, push broom, butcher paper, masking tape, duct tape, loose lay vinyl sheet

Loose Lay Vinyls

Steps Required:

• Removal of the old flooring: old flooring sheets have to be removed. Along with the old sheet, all the nails or adhesive should also be removed before new sheets are to be placed. The floor should be cleaned.
• Leveling the floor: after removing the old carpet, there might be some unwanted dirt which might stay on the floor. This might lead to an uneven floor. Therefore, before the application of the new planks, the floor has to make equal in the surface. This can be done by using a mixture of concrete and cement and spread in the areas of the unequal areas in it.
• Placing of the vinyl planks/sheets: after the floor is evened, the planks or sheets are ready to be placed. The tapes are run all around the floor for applying sheets. Tapes have to be placed first and then the sheets are rolled around the floor. When planks have to place they are done along with the tapes.

Sheet Vinyl vs. Vinyl Tiles

The most important difference between sheet vinyl and vinyl tiles in the designs and the installation options provided. Sheet vinyl comes in rolls, thus it does provide with much of the designing as well as installation techniques while vinyl tiles provide with a lot of installation loose lay vinyl options and designs which lead to flexibility and large surface covering of the floor. Thus, loose lay vinyl flooring may not be a perfect kind of flooring type but it does make a home comfortable enough to live in. These can be used in living rooms, bedrooms and kitchen sometime. Overall, it is one of the cheapest flooring types used mainly in residential places.

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