How much does temperature change? 10F? 15F, max? Does it really change dimension that much.
What about something like a refrigerator (as was mentioned above)? They're pretty heavy and the weight isn't distributed, rather at the four corners.
They say 48 hours of acclimation. The guy I bought it from (independent guy with 2 store fronts in MA and
2 in NY) said you really don't have to wait that long. In my case, by the time I prepped the rooms and let SWMBO pick the boards for the layout she wanted, the stuff was in the house for more than 48 hours anyway.
In addition, it's as DIY as it gets. Sure there are exceptions, and some installs are harder than others, but if you're the least bit handy, you can do it.
There's a gazillion YT videos for how to go around pipes, under doorways, stairs, whatever. You can cut the planks just like you do drywall (score and snap).
You don't really *need* any special tools, but I got lucky. It helps if you have pull bar for doing areas like toe kicks, etc. so I went to HD to get one. The website said my local store had them in stock for $10. Nope. None on the shelf. I talked to the flooring guy and he said "Let's grab the $20 kit that has the bar and some spacers. I'll give to you for $10". There were 2 kits on the shelf, both of them missing the bar (stolen). The guy grabbed this $40 kit (bar, block, upgraded spacers and hammer).
He walked me up to the cashier and told her "Charge him $10". I could have gotten by without everything but the bar, but having all the right stuff really helped. Would I have spent $40 had I known how much all that stuff helped? Probably.
Four corners quarters the wright.
My comments were directed at the official name of this product. "LUXURY" vinyl flooring. Or Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring. The LUXURY part is what I was questioning. The word luxury is an adjective. A descriptive word for a noun. Vinyl flooring is the noun.
An example. Wife. Many men have a wife. When introducing your wife to a person, do you introduce her as my Sexy Wife? Or my Fat Wife? Or my Ugly Wife? Or my Lazy Wife? Hopefully not. So does it make sense to say Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring? Why not just say its Vinyl Plank flooring? You have to add the word Plank to distinguish it from sheet vinyl flooring.
As for your experience of seeing it in a house. It may be very good at appearing as real wood. And has benefits over real wood when it comes to durability and expansion. But is it Luxury Vinyl flooring? Or is it luxurious Vinyl flooring?
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My point was that the weight is on four small footprints, rather than one flat plate that could move around. Washing machines have the same problem and I've royally screwed up flooring pulling ours out. I'm going to do tile when we figure out what we're doing for the rest of the house.
The word luxury is also a noun.
Don't forget Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) vs vinyl tiles - i.e "standard" vinyl tile, not Luxury Vinyl Tile.
LVP and LVT are subsets of the larger set know as LVF - Luxury Vinyl Flooring which was developed specifically to be a step up from the vinyl sheet and tiles that has been around for years.
See here for an article entitled "The Evolution of Vinyl Flooring"
Easy way to find out...go to a flooring store and ask for luxurious Vinyl flooring. Let us know what they say.
That depends. In the winters, there is a 10 degree change in temperature between night (58) and day (68) in my house. The guest house is unheated when empty, so the swings there follow the outside temperature (which very seldom drops below
32F and then only for a couple of hours), but the rate of change is slower.In summers, it can be 62 in the morning and 82 in the late afternoon on a hot day. I have no air conditioning.
It is not a point load, the load is distributed over the four corners; to that extent, I suspect that the load would move with a wood floor, I'm not sure about a VLP floor.
Yes, Luxury is the description of a particular type vinyl flooring. It typically looks like wood plank flooring, or tile flooring, or Engendered flooring. Luxury is not the brand name but the name for the type of vinyl flooring.
Yes, there is a difference between Luxury Vinyl flooring and Vinyl flooring. Typically Luxury Vinyl flooring inter locks like other plank flooring's and typically has a soft rubber backing to absorb sound and soften the feel when walking on it among other desirable features. The underlayment is attached. The surface is scratch resistant, and many come with a life time warranty for homeowner use.
It is identifies as Luxury Vinyl Flooring by most all that manufacture this type flooring. Brand does not matter.
Think of it this way, Is it a solid wood floor or an engineered wood floor.
I meant to say 1/4 the weight. I estimate 75 to 100 lbs for a fridge.
I got a kick out of that link. It mentioned that it is not uncommon for the Europeans to take their LVF with them when they move.
I also recall that it is not uncommon for the Europeans to take their kitchen cabinets with them when they move too.
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