Does anyone do sheet vinyl floors anymore?

15 years ago

We are going CRAZY trying to choose a floor for our kitchen/DR/Entryway area. It is roughly 500 sq ft worth of space.

We would like something that looks like hardwood but more practical. We've considered laminate, real wood, vinyl planks - can't make up our mind. Over the weekend on a whim, we went to two different floor places that we'd never been before for a "fresh" perspective. We explained our situation (kids, pets, wet areas, a small budget) and both (to our surprise) recommended sheet vinyl for the whole space.

I've searched the forums and came up with nothing. Any opinions or reviews on sheet vinyl?

I do have a refrigerator we are going to need replaced eventually, so I am a little leary because of that - but on the other hand, the price and functionality for our stage of life right now (family is young, future isn't totally certain, we may sell and move eventually) I hate to put in the beautiful hardwood that my house (farmhouse) begs for at this point.

Any thoughts?

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caryscott

15 years ago

We are using a sheet fibre floor in our kitchen reno. I looked at most lines of fibre floor including Air Step. Some of the Congoleum ones seemed thin compared to the better quality ones in their own line or others (we are using Tarkett). I'm not a big fan of faux finishes (we are using an all over pattern called concrete) but some of the wood ones look very nice and they are quite soft under foot which is why we wanted it in the kitchen. Install is a little more per syd than the product in my limited experience - probably a bit more with seams. Last Consumer's Reports was pretty positive about these sheet products as I recall.

You can buy plastic appliance tracks to go under your fridge, they come with track that just clips into the track you place under your fridge when you need to move it forward. An appliance repairman recommended it to us - it will also spread out the weight of your appliances on the floor a bit.

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