Rolled Vinyl Flooring
 

We are getting ready to purchase a new home in Deluna. It seems that most of them only have the rolled vinyl and carpet. My initial thought is to pull all of it up and replace it with tile throughout. What are your thoughts on the rolled vinyl. I know if it is anything like the homes had back in the 80's, all you had to do is look at it wrong and you would get a nick, scratch or gouge on the floor.

You’re correct, we replaced ours with vinyl plank. Every time we moved something heavy on the rolled vinyl, we gouged it or tore it.

Well, I thought I would replace it right away, but it looks good. We have used floor protectors under furniture legs. So, we'll wait until it wears out.

I hated the look of the rolled vinyl-dull and patchy in areas. Before I moved in, I replaced all the flooring with luxury vinyl plank, painted every room something other than Brownwood Beige, replaced counters with quartz, had a closet system installed in the master, etc. Much easier to do before moving in. The vinyl planks went down right over the rolled vinyl; in the bedrooms, after the carpet came out, they put down a vapor barrier before the planks.Welcome to the Villages and enjoy.

Unless you are going to install a hard surface, like ceramic tile, I would suggest that you purchase something to protect the floor when you roll out the refrigerator. I use a sheet of plexiglass that I purchased at Home Depot. I have seen several new hardwood floors and vinyl floors ruined by the small plastic wheels on a refrigerator.

When you hear "Rolled Vinyl" you need to think "Linoleum."

The slabs in these homes often crack later. If you have real tiles, they crack with the foundation cracking.

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it is very sturdy and easy to maintain

Nothing wrong with it. Easy to keep clean. We switched to lux vinyl planks a few months ago. Tile gets very hard on the feet.

Do it. I wish we would have before we moved in. The vinyl has actually been fine, but the carpet is cheap and does not wear well at all. We have only been in our house two years and the carpet looks ten years old. It is going to be a much bigger project to replace now, with all our furniture in.

Our house thankfully has a nice looking rolled vinyl floor, but, it's very easy to damage. I never seen anything like it before. This stuff must be paper thin. If from the start you are turned off by what's installed then I highly recommend you look into a luxury vinyl plank that can be laid down over the cheap stuff before you move in.

We are going to live with this cheap floor for a few years or until something or some area gets damaged too severely that we can no longer live with.

Rolled vinyl and carpet is the standard. When we built 4 years ago laminate was a $5,000 upgrade so we thought we'd wait. After 4 years the vinyl is actually holding up better than the carpet but both are showing wear so we are now thinking it's time to upgrade.

We have it in a place we purchased for my mother in law and it's awful. We are TRYING to at least get a year out of it but if I had to do it over again I would have replaced right from the start.

I don’t know why The Villages use this cheap junk.

Brownwood Beige – I call it The Villages Tan since it seems that everything in TV is that color: medical offices, business offices, exteriors, etc. Must have gotten a really good contract on the manufacturing of that paint! It’s awful. :a20: