If I'm ffitting cushion vinyl in a pot or kitchen or any small area I don't need any double sided tape to keep it still & it doesn't matter if the skirts Flexy or not... Coz I'd template it
That's fine if the sub floor is good. Stick vinyl to anything not perfect and it looks awful. Not every customer will pay for the sub floor to be sorted before laying vinyl. Especially if we are talking about £10m2 vinyl. They dont want extra costs.
Depends on what your doing. We don`t do hardly any domestic, but I do have a contract with a maintenance company, who re-furb a lot of lets. The tenants are only normally there for about 6 months, to a year, and normally wreck the place. The guys I work for tosh it over, and I go and replace the carpet and vinyl. Cheap cushion floor, no prep, spray round the edge, and rip it up in 6 months, do it again. Thats what they want, what they pay for, and what they get. Not every job has the money in it, to be perfect.
Me neither, would only template or slide&scribe the contract gear like your polyflor xl or marmoleums, superhook and concave for your standard vinyl.
Cushion floor vinyl was designed as a loose lay product. Also i template cushion floor vinyl so i can centralise and make sure im happy with how pattern drops on every wall before i cut it. If its plain or a simple square room then i will hook it in.
I must be missing something here. Isn't it easier just to centralise it using a tape measure? Templating seems like an awful lot of messing about to do a pretty simple job.
It's really not a lot of messing about at all ! It's like anything the more you do it... I spend half my life making templates mostly for ply so it's second nature to me I know it isn't alway practical or possible but it's always my first option & the results are unbeatable imo
so if you're working in a property that has no room to lay out a paper template(99% of houses) or if it's windy or raining outside where do you do it?i think you and Spacey are in a minority if you do this on domestic vinyls tbh.i'm sure the end result is fantastic but most fitters don't have the time or get payed enough to go to that trouble.
Few years back we had these kitchens in sheltered accommodation all about 1.8m x 2.4m in polysafe . Was hooking them in then thought it would be quicker template so cut one template and used it on 4 kitchens using different colour pens to back mark. Worked well.
Must just be me and Spacey then that tends to find that in a domestic property the subfloor is timber in a bathroom ? So if no room to cut a template then how are you cutting plywood? A sheet of plywood is bigger than most peoples toilets / bathrooms. I would guess that if raining you might have a pop gazzebo maybe? I wonder how other trades manage to do any work? As you would (i guess) have a template for plywood, then you can use same template for the vinyl also . Here are a couple of pictures of poor pattern alignment steve. To be fair very easy bathrooms / toilets, but with a template it would be easier to see where the planks, tile lines etc was going to drop.
I use this method for akward and small areas areas specially if it's being plyed you already got template and a great for glossy vinyl with creasing, great if you got a plinth that won't come of and keeps moving as when back marking you put no pressure on it so don't move when you fit vinyl or bubble back,
I don't fit a lot of vinyl but If I've plyed the area first I'd probably reuse the template for the sheet. I do the same Daz and use different colour pens when I ply bathrooms, ensuite and cloakrooms on a new build site near me. How do you guys do you ply then? Or does your ply end up like this jokers
