How To Cover Vinyl Sheet Flooring

Treat a piece of canvas drop cloth that covers your vinyl tile with shellac and then use acrylic paint to create a decorative design on the surface.

How to cover vinyl sheet flooring.

Remove the floor trim moulding with a pry bar. My in laws just installed a vinyl sheet floor in their kitchen which looks crazy real and not at all cheap and crappy. Typically vinyl flooring is perimeter installed meaning there s no glue or adhesive in the middle of the floor. Be sure to position the patch so that its pattern aligns exactly with the pattern on the flooring.

Use the utility knife to cut straight down the middle of your vinyl floor. If you re not particularly artistic use. Home depot carries it for about 1 25 per square foot and for a high traffic space that needs to be very durable this might be a great option. Cover it in prettier vinyl sheet flooring.

Slowly wedge the pry bar between the trim and wall inserting a small block of wood behind. Cutting in narrow strips makes the task more manageable. I was seriously surprised. Follow the instructions of your chose skim coat product and mix it with water and use a masonry trowel to spread it all over the entire floor.

However many homeowners prefer to remove the vinyl flooring altogether. Take the doors from their hinges. Next move about 12 inches to the right or left and cut a strip parallel to the first. As long as the vinyl flooring is in good structural condition it can accept laminate some wood flooring carpet and some types of vinyl.

Place a straightedge a steel rule or framing square works well on top of the patch. Patching sheet vinyl to repair flooring using the double cutting technique start by taping the replacement patch over the damaged area photo 2.