![]() ![]() So, we were extremely careful and taped off this whole area and were pretty paranoid about it actually. I know this door frame looks terrifying… Unfortunately that aqua paint poking through contains lead we tested that too with a $10 kit from the hardware store. ![]() There is a better way! We use a vibrating tool to trim down the door frames to account for the height of the new vinyl, with a little wiggle room. I am intimately familiar with us after doing it on all of our door frames at our last house before we install laminate flooring., But it had never been done here, even when a couple owners back in stalled that yellow vinyl… They just trimmed the flooring carefully at the door frame! Yuck!, catches dirt and shows a little tiny bit of the old flooring underneath. A leveler can be for even bigger height differences (like I think the basic floor leveler I read said up to 1/2" or 1" of difference), but embossing leveler is for covering patterns like this.Īnother installation prep thing that we did is under-cutting the door trim. This is kind of like a thin, quick drying mortar that you scrape onto the floor to smooth out the texture and differences in height. However, because our yellow stuff had a diamond pattern in it, we needed to put a coat of embossing leveler first. We read the specs and installation instructions on this product from Armstrong and on the adhesive, and found that we could indeed just put the new vinyl over the old. So, we knew we didn’t want to remove the old linoleum because that would disturb it.) ![]() The glue under it, but not flooring itself, contain 40% asbestos. A couple months ago we took a sample of it, plus a little bit of the green linoleum under it, from behind the fridge, to a local environmental testing place and paid $30 or something for them to test it for asbestos. In the "before" pictures of our house you’ll see a wood-look shiny marmoleum-type flooring that was a click tile that stuck to each piece to each other and was a temporary solution the previous owners used to put over the yellow linoleum when it started to wear. We had one layer of existing vinyl over the original linoleum. Preparation for installing sheet vinyl flooringįirst, we did some research on how we were what we were installing the new vinyl onto. ![]() See my video about our cabinets, start to finish.See my comparison of budget-friendly cabinet options (beyond IKEA!) here.Get the DIY built-in range hood tutorial here.Read how we saved $4k on higher-end looking appliances.See our chunky wood floating-look easy, budget-friendly DIY open shelf tutorial.Learn how to choose cabinet hardware and see the beautiful, affordable modern traditional options I considered.Read about our kitchen sink and faucet (and why we didn't choose a farm sink and bridge faucet).Read how to lay sheet vinyl flooring in a complex, larger space here.See our handmade-look tile backsplash/mosaic tile pros/cons here.Learn about our budget-friendly marble-look quartz countertops here.See how we installed our cabinets here.Remember you can also check out other posts on this DIY kitchen reno: I'll share all about it, plus how we installed it ourselves! It was actually harder than I thought not a ton of options out there, but then I found the perfect thing by Armstrong Flooring. We have significant experience installing all of these styles of vinyl flooring.So, I set out to find a sheet vinyl flooring that looked like slate tile. The final method would be loose-lay, and this flooring is heavier and simply lays in-place. This method requires the least preparation. This type of luxury vinyl is factory made to click together and float over the existing flooring or subfloor. The next method would be click, or floating installation of luxury vinyl. Direct glue applications of vinyl flooring require the most preparation of the existing subfloor, but they offer simple selective replacement of any planks or tiles that may become damaged. These floors are generally available and installed in one of three different ways. The same holds true with the LVT flooring sharing the same visuals as tile or stone. LVP flooring mimicks the visuals of wood flooring, but they are completely waterproof. Luxury Vinyl Tiles and Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring is fairly inexpensive to install when compared with ceramic or other flooring types, but they offer outstanding durability and low maintenance. ![]()
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