Post by wildflyer on Jan 10, 2024 15:29:31 GMT -6
My wife and I have adjoining craft rooms, both about 12' x 14'. When we bought the house in 2008 it was one room with a wall of windows. I replaced all of them and put 2, 4' square good vinyl windows in.
The floor was a sort of variegated yellow sheet flooring that blended with every piece of balsa I dropped on it. I had to sweep the entire floor to find what I dropped. I hated that floor.
I sit in an office chair while modeling, I replaced the castors with new ones that have roller blade wheels. The contact with the floor is only about 1/8" wide, but they roll very easy.
I rolled around so much that the top layer of the vinyl separated from the backing and created a huge loose "bubble" of the top layer. then it split all to heck. Turns out the vinyl was stretched out, if it got a small cut it ripped 3 feet across.
I covered that floor with a waterproof click together vinyl flooring that was only 4mm thick. Over time the narrow contact area broke the click together tongue and groove edges until the pieces were just laying on the floor.
when the edges broke off I had 1/4" wide grooves in the floor and my wheels got stuck in them and the chair would not move until you lifted it out of the groove, then 20 seconds later it's stuck in another one.
Finally I bought some heavy grade 10mm thick waterproof wood composite flooring. I'm 75 and it took me 2 weeks to put down 210 square feet of it. I can not move the cabinets in these rooms because they are screwed to the wall with large counter tops on them. So I had to cut around everything that was solidly in place, what a PITA!!
This was the second time crawling all over the floor and it was very tiring I could only do 2-3 hours a day.
This new flooring feels much more solid when we walk on it, so I think I am done.
It is Mohawk 10mm thick and foam padding on the back.
Now back to the important things like building airplanes !
The floor was a sort of variegated yellow sheet flooring that blended with every piece of balsa I dropped on it. I had to sweep the entire floor to find what I dropped. I hated that floor.
I sit in an office chair while modeling, I replaced the castors with new ones that have roller blade wheels. The contact with the floor is only about 1/8" wide, but they roll very easy.
I rolled around so much that the top layer of the vinyl separated from the backing and created a huge loose "bubble" of the top layer. then it split all to heck. Turns out the vinyl was stretched out, if it got a small cut it ripped 3 feet across.
I covered that floor with a waterproof click together vinyl flooring that was only 4mm thick. Over time the narrow contact area broke the click together tongue and groove edges until the pieces were just laying on the floor.
when the edges broke off I had 1/4" wide grooves in the floor and my wheels got stuck in them and the chair would not move until you lifted it out of the groove, then 20 seconds later it's stuck in another one.
Finally I bought some heavy grade 10mm thick waterproof wood composite flooring. I'm 75 and it took me 2 weeks to put down 210 square feet of it. I can not move the cabinets in these rooms because they are screwed to the wall with large counter tops on them. So I had to cut around everything that was solidly in place, what a PITA!!
This was the second time crawling all over the floor and it was very tiring I could only do 2-3 hours a day.
This new flooring feels much more solid when we walk on it, so I think I am done.
It is Mohawk 10mm thick and foam padding on the back.
Now back to the important things like building airplanes !
