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Posted by Percival P. Cassidy on July 19, 2007, 11:24 am
On 07/19/07 10:40 am mkirsch1@rochester.rr.com wrote:
>> We are about to redo our kitchen and plan to replace the sheet vinyl
>> floor covering by hardwood or bamboo (which will also replace carpet in
>> the dining room and another adjacent area).
>>
>> How practical is it to reuse part of that vinyl (which is in good
>> condition) in a small bathroom, assuming that we can pull the vinyl up
>> without tearing it? On the small area I have tried, some of the backing
>> remains stuck to the plywood underlay, so what we are able to pull up
>> will be thinner than it was originally and perhaps of uneven thickness.
> Unless the original installation job was extremely poor, you will not
> be able to pull up enough vinyl in one piece to make a drink coaster,
> let alone cover a bathroom floor. It's glued down with some pretty
> tenacious stuff.
The small section I've tried seems to peel up OK but leaves an uneven
thickness of the backing material attached to the underlay. This is not
a single layer of vinyl directly glued to the underlay but vinyl with
some kind of soft backing material (could be an Armstrong product --
reminds me of what we used in a previous house), so the vinyl take some
of that backing material with it while leaving part of the backing
material behind. The killer as I see it will be the uneven thickness of
the backing and the resulting inability to achieve a smooth enough
surface in the new location.
Perce
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