Paper Backed Vinyl Flooring

Fiberglass backed and rock backed floors go down with a releasable pressure sensitive adhesive or no adhesive at all.

Paper backed vinyl flooring. This is the most common form consisting of a thin flexible sheets of vinyl bonded with a printed design and transparent wear layer. Fiberglass backed vinyl on the other hand is growing in popularity due to its simpler loose lay installation. Fiberglass vinyl floor backing. I would assume the flooring is orginal.

The house is 30 years old. On wood floors the vinyl sheet flooring should be removed in large sections with a pry bar removing the underlayment while the flooring is still. I work in the flooring department at my home depot store and it sounds like you got one of our pre cut vinyl linoleums. While underlayment for vinyl planks may be used under hardwood and laminate the reverse is not true.

It is hard work. Talk to your flooring retailer about the best options for your installation. Unfortunately vinyl sheet flooring manufactured with an asbestos backing poses a serious exposure risk when it is disturbed. During removal pulling the vinyl layer away from its paper backing must be avoided as much as possible.

To my knowledge it is a form of modified loose lay as you have said. They are pretty thin by sheet vinyl standards i believe around 45 mil thick which is paper almost compared to our 100 mil linoleums. Putting a soft product under vinyl plank will result in an unstable floor that is much more inclined to being damaged and even punctured or torn over time. The paper backing.

The top layer came up just fine but there is this light grey paper backing that is firmly stuck to the plywood sub floor. This makes it the best and cheapest form of vinyl for wet locations such as bathrooms. The type of vinyl floor you select will determine the type of adhesive needed. Been laying vinyl for the last 9 years and have pulled up numerous job with paper backed vinyl.

Scrapped sanded it all up. I unknowingly tore up some asbestos sheet flooring. It can be installed with releasable adhesive or no adhesive at all making it easy to replace tiles should they become wet or damaged. The old vinyl will probably come up in small pieces and in some areas the paper backing separates from the vinyl itself and remains on the floor.

Sheet vinyl comes in 6 or 12 foot wide rolls which means that the flooring can be laid with very few seams. Like floor tiles vinyl sheet flooring is a long lasting and economical material and it also offers more aesthetic options to suit a homeowner s taste. To remove old vinyl remove the transition strips image 1 that hold the carpet in place. Separating the two layers could possibly release a dangerous level of asbestos into the air.

Fiberglass also doesn t have the curling problem felt has and it. Felt backed sheet vinyl floors install using a multi purpose latex adhesive. We pulled up our linolem or vinyl floor last night in our 5x11 bathroom.