Anyone Use Luxury Vinyl Plank?

[kngelv]

Not garage related but suggestions are welcome. We had a few issues with a foster cat and plan on replacing the carpet in our basement and possibly dining and living rooms. I plan on hardwood for the dining/living rooms but am thinking about wood plank luxury vinyl tile for the basement. The samples looked liked wood and even had texture and graining. My wife liked the samples so much that she suggested them for the living/dining room too. Does anyone have any experience with this stuff? Thanks.

James

 

[Radix2]

I have used it in a couple of bathrooms, very nice stuff.

Only caution is that they want tight temperature control, so no good for places where you want to set back the temps like cottages, garages, etc.

Some spec as tight as 65-85 degrees, some go down to 55

 

[MT Mike]

My wife and I just got done laying luxury vinyl tile (Armstrong Luxe with Fastak) in our kitchen. It was extremely easy to work with and went down fast. We have already had several comments asking who did our tile. They are amazed when we tell them that it is vinyl.

 

[pancho400cid]

I used it on the kitchen/dining area floor of our old house (now a rent house). That house is pier and beam and moves around way too much for most flooring systems. Vinyl plank is forgiving of unstable substrates - even though the manual probably doesn't say so in the name of covering the mnfr's be-hinds. I also helped a friend add vinyl plank flooring to his dining room area.

It is easy and fast to put down. Read and understand the instructions and watch a couple of YouTube vids and you'll be good to go... especially if you have to trasition between rooms etc. I saw more than one YT vid where the demonstrator was doing it wrong....

In my opinion VPF looks like what it is... an inexpensive, practical floor. It looks "good" but not "magnificent" to my eye. It will never be confused for real wood or real tile IMO...

 

[Keyblazer]

Yup,
It looked good and handled 2x 80lb dogs skiddin around on it no problem!

 

[bullnerd]

About to put some down.
We went to buy something different, salesman said this is the most moved type of engineered flooring now. Wife saw one she liked so were giving it a shot. My house isn't anything special, big $$$ floor is not worth it.

When my wife was looking at it, the sales guy was standing there, I said, "isn't luxury vinyl an oxymoron? " , he didn't think it was funny.

 

[Shea]

About to put some down.
When my wife was looking at it, the sales guy was standing there, I said, "isn't luxury vinyl an oxymoron? " , he didn't think it was funny.

I think it's hilarious!