Luxury vinyl flooring

[oakleyb]

Any thoughtso on luxury vinyl flooring for internal work. B & Q and others claim it's suitable for bathrooms etc so reckon may be worth a shot?

 

[matthewriches]

Wouldn't have put B&Q and luxury in the same sentence lol

 

[lw395]

Luxury can be defined as ' an expensive attempt at comfort'.

Some vinyl could be OK.

 

[Poignard]

Any thoughtso on luxury vinyl flooring for internal work. B & Q and others claim it's suitable for bathrooms etc so reckon may be worth a shot?

I'd be worried about moisture collecting between it and the substrate and causing rot (unless it was glued down).

 

[lukedh]

Amtico can be laid in teak with holly strips.

You pays your money and glue it down. Very good but not cheap, it's not B&Q.

Ten year guarantee. Fine for a marine interior when properly laid.

 

[ex-Gladys]

When I got Gladys, she had "vinyl flooring" which was fitted across everything below the built in furniture, whether it was GRP or floorboard... It was a disaster, because the glue had started to let go in many places making a sticky mess, with sections moving. It took 5 minutes to strip the whole lot out, and our local shipwright who has many more woodworking skills than me to replace the floorboards with holly and teak which is a vast improvement...

 

[jwilson]

There's a huge difference between cheap roll vinyls or click-together stuff and Amtico and it's equivalents. You will find Amtico on some superyachts. I have yet to see anything in B&Q that would be useful as yacht cabin flooring, mores the pity as I need to do some work there on my own boat.

 

[yerffoeg]

Instead why not get an offcut of new kitchen carpet? Use cheap wall paper as a template for the area to be cut, and then cut the carpet with a Stanley knife or sharp scissors. Copydex the edge to stop it fraying. Take the carpet out during the winter. Replace it when it has been trashed; which is what I do every 5 years.

 

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Any thoughtso on luxury vinyl flooring for internal work. B & Q and others claim it's suitable for bathrooms etc so reckon may be worth a shot?

What sort of internal work?

 

[oakleyb]

The decks in each hull, currently just vinyl. Recently used it in a bathroom and got me wordering.