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Show flooring can be complicated sheet-vin- yl nsfaisirtg By POPULAR MECHANICS For AP Special Features The thought of installing sheet-vinflooring can be intimidating, especially when you consider that one or two mistakes can ruin the whole sheet. The problem is compounded by the fact that few rooms are truly square, and they have obstacles and offsets to accommodate. How do professional installers keep from making costly mistakes? When a room is complicated, a pro will make a paper pattern of the room and transfer that pattern onto the vinyl. As such, the paper becomes a template and every wobble and bobble, every offset and obstacle yl is factored in before cutting. As a matter of fact, the Armstrong flooring people have come up with an error-proinstallation kit that allows you to do just that ). (You can call them at (800) of 233-3823- - . The first thing to decide is whether you'll take up the existing flooring. If your floor has suffered water damage and dry rot, or could simply use a layer of underlay-meto make it more uniform, then make those corrections before installing new vinyl. Otherwise, you can lay your new vinyl directly on top of your ojd. There are two types of vinyl for this kind of installation. One requires gluing the entire floor, the other just the perimeter. If your nt existing flooring has an embossed etching liquid. Rubber gloves surface pattern, you'll need to fill must be used because the liquid is these depressions with an embossvery caustic. Once the etching has ing leveler. Without it, the old dried, apply two coats of primer. floor's pattern will show through The second coat should be at right angles to the first. your new flooring. To make your paper template, And because resilient flooring is designed to repel just about lay the paper sheets around the everything, you'll also need to perimeter of the room, men fill in degrade and prep the surface with the middle and tape all the sheets an etching solution and primer. together. To hold the paper in triangular slots Highlights of the installation place, cut begins with floor preparation. every couple of feet and lay tape Remove the baseboard shoe mold across the slots. To determine the ing with a small prybar. If your . exact perimeter of the floor, insert room is a bathroom, you'll, also a ball point pen into the roller disc need to take up the toilet. Any that comes in the Armstrong kit, caulk along a tub or cabinet must and trace around the room. be sliced away with a razor, blade Once the outline is complete, or blade scraper. Next, cut the surroll up the paper and lay it over the face glaze on the old flooring with vinyl. 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