Felt like castor replacements

My vinyl linoleum floor was in perfect condition when I used chairs with slides. After I bought chairs with casters, it rolled out the top layer like it was spreading out a pie crust with a rolling pin. Separated the top layer with the pattern from the next layer that was plain. Top layer peeled off. Ruined the floor Salesman didn't warn me, nor did anyone else.

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:06:44 -0400, micky posted for all of us to digest...

I thought vinyl & linoleum were two different materials?

Chair casters have to be matched with the material they will be placed on, as you have learned, the hard way. I use a chair mat as I have carpet.

I see glass mats advertised on TV. I'm sure they have strict requirements. I believe they are expensive.

On Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:06:44 -0400, micky posted for all of us to digest...

Just looked up the glass chair mats.

I think linoleum is actually a brand name but the product was different than vinyl although they look and act similar. Linoleum was Linseed Oil with various fillers (Hence "Lin ol..."). Vinyl is a man made plastic. I haven't really had any for about 35 years when we ripped it out of the kitchen, pulled up the carpet and put down porcelain tile throughout the house.

Yes, they are. Do you really expect Micky to be capable of such fine distinctions?

I'm having sheet vinyl installed in my kitchen in about 8 days. I didn't consider linoleum because it has to be waxed.

Cindy Hamilton

Cindy, I'm surprised at you, both by your ignorance of the subject** and your willingness to be insulting about a topic about which you know so little. And that you fell for Tek's bait. The vinyl flooring that replaced linoleum was called vinyl linoleum and it probably still is sometimes.

People call everything you blow your nose on Kleenex too but Linoleum is a brand name for a Linseed Oil based product that only shares the fact that it is a "sheet goods" flooring material with vinyl.

Many people do not take the time to think about things such as the difference of vinyl and linoleum. Unless I was going to put down and wanted to be chouosey they would be the same to me. There are several types of what one might just call a wood floor. There is solid wood, wood that is cheap wood with a layer of hard wood on the top, the 'fake wood' (laminate).

ISTR you're not always careful about the distinction between cement and concrete, as well.

Cindy Hamilton

That's probably true, except for the "as well" part. There is definitely something called vinyl linoleum. It's what you called sheet vinyl.

On Mon, 20 Sep 2021 14:30:07 -0400, micky posted for all of us to digest...

I couldn't find vinyl linoleum in my searches. Here is a link that explain the difference for Mickey-who probably won't read it to spite me (or him?)

This is the lead-in to a definition of linoleum, not vinyl linoleum.

If you looked up wood instead of plastic wood, you wouldn't get the right definition either.

Not everything has made it to the web, and certainly not to google. I know important things that happened in my lifetime that aren't in google, but I think they're not on the web at all.

Earlier in this thread I looked and I noticed that all the hits on the first two pages for vinyl linoleum were comparisons of vinyl and linoleum, but that doesn't mean there wasn't something called by some in the business, maybe almost everyone at one time, as vinyl linoleum, and it's the nature of English that the words still mean what they used to.

You must be joking. English changes all the damned time. My favorite example is the word "decimate", since it has changed within the last century. Certainly since the invention of linoleum, but probably before the invention of vinyl flooring.

Some of these may list the same words.

Cindy Hamilton

They may gather other meanings but as I said, they still mean what they used to. Meanings don't just vaporize because other meanings are attached.

And it's not like there is some new meaning for vinyl linoleum. There is no new meaning that could drive out the old meaning, even if that were possible.

The problem was not that you didn't know the phrase, it was that you let Tekkie drag you in and you gave the gratuitous, inapplicable, inaccurate insult, "Do you really expect Micky to be capable of such fine distinctions?"

Linoleum is a brand name. You can call Puffs, Kleenex but it isn't. Maybe Scott will educate you on what "Realtor" means ;)

It was but not any more

I don't know who Scott is, but I do know that linoleum is not a brand name.

Nice try.

You have a well established record of cluelessness, especially when it comes to fine distinctions.

If I recall correctly, the first post of yours that I read was something about kludging a repair to a roof that should have had a tear-off to ascertain the condition of the sheathing.

Cindy Hamilton