Novalis peel-and-stick vinyl planks -- feedback?
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Novalis peel-and-stick - direction of vinyl planks?
Comments (0)I've read the other big thread on Novalis peel-and-stick vinyl planks and they look good and easy to install but I still have a couple of questions that I couldn't figure out. I'm planning to do my whole house including 2 narrow hallways that join at a right angle/T shape. From the front door you walk into an open plan living area then off to the left there's the hallway with a bedroom/office off to the left. The 1st part of the hallway leads into a 2nd part at right angles that has 2 more bedrooms off it. Its all open plan so there's really only a single hallway with 2 parts at right angles in a T shape. All the other rooms are sqare-ish or wide enough that it doesn't really matter which direction that I lay the vinyl plank in. For hallways I read that the planks should run parralel with the longer direction of the hall but if I do that I'd have to flip the direction of the planks when I get to the "T"/right angle in the hallway. Is there some kind of threashold strip I need to use or should I just keep the planks all in the same direction and just have them running across the width of the hallway for the 2nd part of the hallway? I'm thinking the best way since I'm using the peel and stick vinyl planks is to have them all in the same direction and just have them run across direction of the 2nd part of the hallway. Does that sound OK or will it look weird? The second question is that since I've got a large open plan area (the hallway, living room, dining room and family room) what's the best way to square it up? I'm thinking I should start in the 1st part of the hallway and center that and then just go with that. I can do chalk lines in all the open plan rooms to start with to make sure everything squares up fairly well with the hall. If its off by a degree or 2 how much leeway do I have before it would look weird/out of whack? Thanks in advance for your help and advice. I want to make sure I'm on the right track and don't realise I've got a problem after I've laid hundreds of planks and have to start again......See MoreNovalis peel and stick over plywood
Comments (0)I want to install Novalis peel and stick over my plywood sub floor. Plywood is in great shape but my question is will the vinyl tile stick well enough to the plywood without primer. The instructions say do not install over a sealed sub floor. If primer will do nothing for it I see no reason to prime it. I am confused....See MoreNovalis peel and stick vinyl planks
Comments (5)No, I have no pads under anything. Part of this is a 4 and half foot wide, very heavy traffic, long hallway, that goes back to bedrooms, and baths. The rest of it is kitchen, dining room, and family room combination (might call it a great room, not sure what it was called in the 70's when this house was built) I have moved the refrigerator and freezer around on it several times, since we are still working on this place, and probably will be for another year or two. I have moved the heavy very old dining room table and chair dozens of times, and the couch gets moved out a couple times a week, because of where the heating and cooling vents are installed, and it blows all the pet hair underneath it, and up by the baseboards. No, I dont have any separation, yet. In our old house, I did have one plank with a very slight separation where the ends meet. It was like it shrunk about 1/16 or so. I used some golden oak filler I had, and you had to look very hard to find it. I am undecided, yet, whether to continue this into my very long laundry/sewing area, and in to the bathroom beyond it, or if I would prefer the Eurostone vinyl tiles that I used in kitchen, and baths and laundry in our old house. This house has regular hardwood in all the bedrooms, and ceramic in other bath, so might be nice to have something a bit different than the wood look everywhere. We also have a grandaughter and great grandson living with us, and the walker is all over the floors, and highchair gets pulled across it all the time too....See MoreLuxury Vinyl Plank Interlocking Vs. Peel and Stick Floors
Comments (19)OK....so here is what I WOULD DO: Pull the carpet and lino BOTH and FIND OUT what's underneath. Carpet hides the WORST subfloors (both in prep and in materials) on the planet. Builders KNOW they can mess up the subfloor because carpet will hide everything. So....once carpet and line are GONE...I would then choose an installation material BASED ON the subfloor material that is in place. Example, if you have PERFECT PLYWOOD (which is EXPENSIVE....so I HIGHLY DOUBT IT) then you can think about peel and stick vinyl (which will be cheap, cheerful and require replacement rather quickly = 5 - 7 years). If you have PERFECT CONCRETE SLAB (again...HIGHLY DOUBT IT) then you can think peel and stick. See above. Now back to reality. The chances are you have bad subfloors. As in laun or fibre board or OSB (oriented strand board = looks like the plywood has been made from potato chips). If this is your substrate, peel and stick will NOT STICK. That means you NEED TO LOOK at floating (click together). The price will go UP because of the price of the locking system (royalties, manufacturing machines are expensive, etc) but the INSTALLATION will be faster/easier. Or you have horrible concrete (lumpy, pitted, sloped, etc.) and you need SERIOUS repairs on the concrete. That type of repair isn't going to come cheap. And it is a gut-wrenching DIY project. And vinyl is great for dogs....but PLEASE WORK with a product that is NOT MATTE. We have dozens of threads with people CRYING over their matte finished vinyl....and HATING IT. And NO, the finish is not defective. Which makes them even MORE upset....because there is no warranty covering "angry". And just for fun, a rental unit will have a different life expectancy for flooring. Rental units have a 7 year life cycle for flooring. Yep. That's sever (7) years and the floors need replacing. So....choose what YOU LIKE today. Get it as tough as your budget can allow (high-end laminate in the living spaces + decent vinyl in kitchen/bath/laundry) and then realize it will only survive a few more years (2-4 years) as a rental floor. That's it. And LAMINATE (especially the high end one's) are EXTREMELY tough. They are STUPID-EASY/cheap to install as DIY and require LESS PREPARATION to the subfloors than vinyl. Because rental property is in your future, don't think anything beyond "seven years"....See Moregusdmiller
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