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Sticking down vinyl
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- Lemon Half
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Sticking down vinyl
The floor in my kitchen/breakfast room is laid with two large abutting sheets of vinyl, with a fake wood strip pattern. The join in areas of heavy traffic is starting to lift and separate, made worse because I tend to trip on it. Any suggestions for what glue to use to fix it down? The floor underneath is concrete screed.
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
And what helps remove it I've tried working on reviving my kitchen floor and it takes massive effort to get the glue from the previous vinyl off.
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
Nimrod103 wrote:The floor in my kitchen/breakfast room is laid with two large abutting sheets of vinyl, with a fake wood strip pattern. The join in areas of heavy traffic is starting to lift and separate, made worse because I tend to trip on it. Any suggestions for what glue to use to fix it down? The floor underneath is concrete screed.
"Contact adhesive" will do the job and can be purchased in small quantities
https://www.toolstation.com/evo-stik-co ... ive/p95550
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
kempiejon wrote:And what helps remove it I've tried working on reviving my kitchen floor and it takes massive effort to get the glue from the previous vinyl off.
https://diy.evo-stik.co.uk/products/imp ... ve-cleaner. Some heavy solvents, though. Needs thorough ventilation, and not for people with breathing difficulties.
BJ
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
kempiejon wrote:And what helps remove it I've tried working on reviving my kitchen floor and it takes massive effort to get the glue from the previous vinyl off.
This is a perennial problem on Flooring forums... often with no answer.
On another forum a posted commented that he got on well with petrol, until he tried heating the floor to accelerate the process.
V8 (he used a blowlamp)
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
thanks bungeejumper, I've tried white spirit, isopropyl alcohol, WD40 but had most success with a soak with washing liquid and elbow grease.
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
88V8 wrote:kempiejon wrote:And what helps remove it I've tried working on reviving my kitchen floor and it takes massive effort to get the glue from the previous vinyl off.
This is a perennial problem on Flooring forums... often with no answer.
On another forum a posted commented that he got on well with petrol, until he tried heating the floor to accelerate the process.
V8 (he used a blowlamp)
Darwin Award candidate, obviously.
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
Nimrod103 wrote:The floor in my kitchen/breakfast room is laid with two large abutting sheets of vinyl, with a fake wood strip pattern. The join in areas of heavy traffic is starting to lift and separate, made worse because I tend to trip on it. Any suggestions for what glue to use to fix it down? The floor underneath is concrete screed.
As mentioned above, contact adhesive is what is most commonly used I believe, but I would use the spray on stuff rather than a tin of it for this purpose.
https://www.screwfix.com/p/no-nonsense- ... 00ml/32657
https://www.toolstation.com/stick2-cont ... ive/p47790
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Re: Sticking down vinyl
BullDog wrote:88V8 wrote:This is a perennial problem on Flooring forums... often with no answer.
On another forum a posted commented that he got on well with petrol, until he tried heating the floor to accelerate the process.
V8 (he used a blowlamp)
Darwin Award candidate, obviously.
I was thinking, someone like Laurel & Hardy there.
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