Anyone have/seen up close vinyl flooring?

[Doing my best]

My parents have it in the dining room and hallways, and I love it.

I have had wooden floors before, but this is so much easier to clean, and is nice to walk on..

[Lulu]

I'm sorry rilady - your pic did work but I had to remove it as per forum guidelines.

P.S - it does look terrific though, I think I'll look into it for my place too!

[girlonamission]

Sorry about that Lulu - I obviously didn't read the forum guidelines very well, did I?!?

[Lulu]

Nah, tis ok!

[Salad]

Hi Willow, we built our house 4 years ago and decided to go with Vinyl flooring throughout the whole house except for bedrooms rumpus and theatre, we even put it in our bathrooms and toilet & laundry. We love it soooooo much in fact we love it that much that we also installed it into our rental property when we renovated it.

We went with Karndean planks at our house. There are other brands though. I think that Karndean are one of the more expensive brands. We used a cheaper brand in the rental I cant remember the name of it sorry but it has worn well.

We have not had any problems with it at all, its easy to clean etc and if i ever built or renovated again I would definantly have it on my floor.

Everyone who comes to our house always comments on the floor, initially they think its wood and are so suprised when we tell them what it is, we have to actually show them a piece so that they believe us.
Personally I would not go with floating timber as it is softer and marks/dints easier. If you damage a piece in the centre of the room you have to lift the whole floor from the edge of the room to get to the piece thats damaged but with the vinyl floor you can cut out the piece thats damaged and replace it with another its that easy.
Sorry to carry on about it but I love it cant you tell.

[Nelle]

We have vinyl and it's the best option for us - we wanted something that was cheapish so we weren't cringing with each scratch or crack. We will eventually replace the vinyl I guess, once the kids are older.

It dents, like if a kid has a bit of a 'moment' and throws their fork, it'll leave an indentation, and we have a small indent or two from bar stools falling over. I'd have to go looking for it to see it, so they're not obvious things. If you've been shifting heavy furniture, or in a high traffic area, if it's not glued down properly it can bubble a bit (not toooo hard to fix I don't think?).

It does look really good though.

Rilady, while you can't post pics, you're allowed to post a link to your pic if you'd like, that members can click on to see.

[YoYo]

Willow - I had it in my laundry and because it wasn't secured enough to the floor, it would kind of 'ride up' when the washing machine spun....it would send my machine across the floor on it too like a magic carpet! So just watch out or ask about that.

[Gigi]

i'm in a rental property with 1mm thick lino - it's awful. Very very cold, and there is one rip in the kitchen floor lino - looks like someone did it with a stiletto, but no, all it took was for one plate to fall out of the fridge by mistake.

we were SO careful moving furniture, haven't had any tears with that, but if I had chosen the lino, i would get the THICKEST one going! esp if you intend to rent it out. i try really hard to be a good tenant, but it's so hard when really crummy building materials have been used. (like NON WASHABLE PAINT!!!).

and choose a medium colour, NOT PALE, or WHITE

i've lived in a place with pretend wool lino - that was excellent.

I would personally stick to LARGE TILES for the wet areas.

[Artechim]

I have lino at my house atm, and as a previous poster said you really do need straight floors for it. Ours shows up all the bumps from the uneven floorboards. It is tough wearing though, it has probably been there for about 30 years and doesn't have that many scuffs. You could lessen the effect of the uneven floor by getting a lino with a matt finish instead of gloss, and careful picking of patterns.

When we get around to renovating this place, we will probably put in a floating floor because the underlay is more forgiving with the unevenness. We have installed this before and it was reasonably hard wearing, although it did scratch a bit and we had to put felt pads under the chairs etc so they didn't scrap it.

Carpet isn't that bad an option. It will hide imperfections with the flooring nicely. Modern carpets take a lot of use before they wear, even in high use areas. As for tenants wreaking it, that is what bond and reference checks are for. But if it is the main walkway by the door then mud being trampled in is a pain, it is easier to have something you can mop.

[Salad]

I thought I would add that ours is wood look vinyl planks not staight vinyl so no problems with dinting, indentation or bubbling of any kind. We have also had animals on ours and kids pushing toys etc around.