How to Install a Vinyl Floor

How to Install a Vinyl Floor - Do It Yourself

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Күн бұрын

If the vinyl floor in your kitchen is old and scarred up, replace it! Armstrong Flooring has a wide range of color and styles to choose from to brighten up your kitchen. And best of all, it’s not expensive and you can do it yourself!
MATERIALS
-Armstrong vinyl flooring
-Armstrong flooring installation kit
-notched trowel
-vinyl flooring adhesive
-utility knife (comes with flooring kit)
-pry bar
-hammer
-masking tape
-putty knife
GETTING STARTED
First remove all appliances from the kitchen area i.e. stove, refrigerator etc.
Next remove the quarter round from the baseboard. To do this, take a pry bar and a hammer. Put the pry bar on top of the quarter round and gently tap it with a hammer to get the pry bar between the quarter round and the wall. Once that’s done, gently pry the quarter round away from the wall. Repeat this process up the wall to remove the quarter round.
Once that’s done, you’re ready to use the flooring kit to measure and mark the dimensions of your new vinyl floor.
INSTALLING THE FLOOR
The Armstrong flooring kit makes this job much easier than it used to be. The kit comes with a utility knife and several large sheets of paper. Take the first piece of paper, and lay it up against the wall and into a corner. Then use masking tape to keep it in place, taping it to the baseboard in this case. Take the next piece of paper and put it next to the first piece with a slight overlap. Then use masking tape and tape one piece of paper to the next. Do this all the way around the kitchen until your floor is covered. Once you’ve done that, cut away any excess paper. The effect is that you are creating a template from which you’ll cut your new vinyl floor.
TIP: In each kitchen there are corners, so you will more than likely have excess paper here. To cut it correctly so your new floor will fit, smooth the paper down in the corner to where you create a crease in the excess paper. Then take a putty knife, put it in the crease, and take a utility knife to cut away the excess paper. The putty knife acts as a straight edge for you to cut along so that the utility knife blade doesn’t slip and make an incorrect cut.
Once you’ve got your paper template laid out, use more masking tape to reinforce the entire area. Then roll it up, and you’re ready to lay it out over your new vinyl flooring material.
Lay the template down over the flooring material, tape it in place and you’re ready to cut. Use the utility knife that comes with the flooring kit and cut along the template. The vinyl flooring cuts very easily.
TIP: When you make your cut, skip over the tape you used to secure the template to the new flooring. This will prevent the template from shifting and causing an incorrect cut. Once you’ve cut the flooring out all the way around, then go back and cut the flooring under the tape.
Once your flooring is cut, simply take it to the kitchen and unroll it to make sure it fits.
Once it’s in place, use a notched trowel to apply vinyl flooring adhesive to keep your floor in place.
Then wait 24 hours before re-installing your quarter round and appliances and your kitchen will look great!
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@kendrak2009 11 ай бұрын

This was uploaded 3 years ago but everything about it screams the 90's 😄

@ciaran5588 9 ай бұрын

I used to be a carpet/vinyl fitter. This is the nuttiest way to lay vinyl that I've ever seen

@billcollinspt 4 ай бұрын

can you upload the unnuttiest way then so everyone knows?

@jeffrandolf5673 3 ай бұрын

Did she use a 2" straight edge around the perimeter to mark the template, then use that line to mark outside of finished product? I watched quickly (time restraint) & didn't see that.

@wavydavy9816 Ай бұрын

Today I had to re-lay some old lino (I'm a decorator) and I'd only watched videos of guys using tape around the edges, so I did that, and it sucked! I wish I'd seen this video yesterday and properly glued it all down 🤦‍♂

@YouTubeApe 3 күн бұрын

@@wavydavy9816what sucked about the perimeter tape method?

@wavydavy9816 3 күн бұрын

@@KZfaqApe It was old lino, in an old bathroom, in an old house. So the lino wasn't quite smooth and neither was the floor underneath it. It was a big ask for some tape. I'd even doubled the strips up but it bubbled up again after about half an hour in various spots around the edge. I'll have to go back at some point and have another bash at it, perhaps with new lino 🤷‍♂ and contact adhesive 😁

@kewlzproductions2152 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing! Perfect template and easy installation. I’m doing my bathroom floor and I’ll share my pics with you soon!

@PraiseDog Жыл бұрын

Beautiful! Great instructions on the floor as well.

@ThatUCant Жыл бұрын

Fabulous easy to follow video. Thank you! I'm all set to install my flooring.

@susanhaze1284 3 жыл бұрын

Extra tips: #1 (learned when Armstrong used to sell a “trim & fit kit” very much like what she’s using): when you lay out the paper on the existing floor (and you don’t need really special paper, you can get inexpensive rolls of even brown paper from an office supply chain store), besides taping the edges of the paper sheets together you can make it impossible for the paper to accidentally slip around or to not lay completely flat, so the temple is absolutely perfect. Use a sharp razor blade in a utility knife or x-acto hobby knife-or you can even hold the razor blade alone if you’re not accident prone-and throughout the plane of paper, every 12 to 16 inches or so in all directions across the paper LIGHTLY slice a V shape about an inch tall just through the paper. Then flip the paper point of that V up to create small triangular holes. You can then press small, roughly square, pieces of 1+1/4 or 1+1/2 inch wide masking tape across those holes so that the paper is lightly attached to the floor and completely smooth. After you make the template as she’s demonstrated, remove it slowly so that the tape remains on the paper and bridging the holes. Then when you lay the template on the new vinyl sheet, the tape will lightly stick to the new vinyl and not shift around at all. #2 It’s really important that you don’t use the template on vinyl that’s colder than the room it needs to fit. Lay it somewhere that’s about the same temperature as the room you’re going to put it in & leave it there awhile to relax, lose its memory of having been rolled up, and to do any slight expanding it may need to do, because it will have slightly contracted if it spent time anywhere colder than the room you’ll be laying it in. If you use the template on cold vinyl and then move it to the warm room where you intend to attach it, it’ll slightly expand in that room and turn out to be just slightly larger than the space you cut it for! That’ll make it buckle, and you’ll have to fight & do some trimming to get it to fit. #3 consider using newfangled adhesive that will allow you to lift & reposition the vinyl if necessary. if any foreign crumb has sneaked in under the vinyl (you can slide around in socks to feel for such things) it’s nice to be able to pull the vinyl away from easy-release adhesive to get to the crumb and remove it without having to worry that your adhesive has already gotten an iron grip on the vinyl and that lifting it could easily make the vinyl tear! In fact, if you used traditional adhesive and then find a pimple created by a crumb, you’ll be much safer making a very small V cut through the vinyl to pick it out than to fight traditional adhesive, unless the pimple is so close to the edge of the vinyl that you don’t have much vinyl to pry up. #4 lastly, it’s well worth the money to rent a 50 to 75 pound roller that you can push around like a lawnmower after you’ve glued down the vinyl. Some big box stores will even loan you a roller for free. You’ll want to carry it to the center of the room and roll away from the center in all directions just 3 feet at a time, eventually working all the way to the edges. That’ll get rid of any air bubbles under the vinyl, so that every bit of it is in full contact with the floor. Leaving any bubbles can later bite you in the butt when you push furniture into or around the room, because an edge can catch on an innocent looking bubble and stretch a tear through your new floor. Don’t be at all nervous, it’s very easy to fit & install vinyl if you just avoid these few pitfalls. Enjoy,

@plutonictogba Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for this video. I followed step by step and I did my kitchen

@thebestken 3 жыл бұрын

Looks like you need to replace that carpet too 😂

@aungmyolatt997 2 жыл бұрын

That was great 👍 thanks for your show. Really helpful.

@murciamascot1 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this. It's a big help.

@derwingholston2550 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, did exactly what you did and aced it, Thank You!

@61Insane Жыл бұрын

Absolutely wonderful and perfect looking - the floor was good too

@jennytran7047 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this video

@candydigga 2 жыл бұрын

That template is a great idea!!!💯😀

@wesneal878 Жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you, this is perfect!

@armandopatane5343 Жыл бұрын

I’m a man and pretty good luck with almost everything especially cars= BUT THIS VIDEO IS THE MOST INFORMATIVE SENSIBLE VIDEO IVE SEEN SO FAR = attempting to vinyl floor my 16x18 dining room = never done before = THANK YOU 🙏 GOOD JOB = I never thought about a template

@paulfalstad1 Жыл бұрын

She has looks, skills, intelligence...dynamite! Thank you for showing a novice the way to manhandle flooring!

@adamb5404 Жыл бұрын

She’s just reading a script 😊

@nothingbutGuiasybutta 4 жыл бұрын

Awesome work 👏👏👏

@everetteallen3156 13 күн бұрын

very helpful! thank you so much

@microsoftuser4303 3 жыл бұрын

beautiful ❤️❤️❤️

@GB-qn4gt 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing.

@lawrenceking4144 Жыл бұрын

Wasn't this show on in the late 90s early 2000s? I knew I had watched this before. Amazing the info is still valid.

@richardboyd4477 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏

@barbaraluna5519 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this.

@victorgonzalez8858 3 жыл бұрын

Muy bonita y trabajadora, very helpful thank you.

@jeddibouih6207 Жыл бұрын

thanks leady this is will be helpful for me .

@javidanazizov3046 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@meryemsena812 3 жыл бұрын

Good work👍👍

@uatdks803 2 жыл бұрын

thanks for the video

@Agrillot6 Жыл бұрын

I have been begging for help on this damn floor for ages! I’ve been walking around on a subfloor For 5 years after peeling up the nasty CARPET that was in my BATHROOM 😩🤮 I am very thankful for this video and I have huge rolls of painters brown masking paper so I think a template is the way to go.

@DM-sb8tx Жыл бұрын

Thank you 🙏🏽

@chrismoser3481 4 жыл бұрын

Love these Teresa videos!

@VideoNash 3 жыл бұрын

thanks

@ravenchristian8491 3 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@moselc09 3 жыл бұрын

This is the proof I needed. She said Vinyl... in 2020 that typically means vinyl plank. But she put a 1 sheet vinyl in a 1980's kitchen. This is a late 1990's video. I wish they added that into the description because it induces nostalgia.

@International-floors.0566 2 жыл бұрын

Nice working I also same work

@carlabellis 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry was distracted ...Great job!

@nathanscott762 3 жыл бұрын

no do not use channel locks to remove the gas line. the gas line nut has flat sides for a reason, and its not for channel locks.

@guntherultraboltnovacrunch5248 6 ай бұрын

She's a GURL. 😝

@ImInterestingG 3 жыл бұрын

Using a paper template is a great idea.

@edenmolinar2086 2 жыл бұрын

Nicely done and really-really-really nice hair spray, it seems to hold really well.

@immanoctopus Жыл бұрын

I know right? I was like "how ia she working and her hair is no in her face like mine is?" hahaha

@dougrobinson5830 2 жыл бұрын

I always did my floors. But this time I got them ready and hired it done. At 67 I don't crawl around like I use too.

@judygutierrez4317 Жыл бұрын

I've done this once before in another house, but needed reminders!! So glad I found you!! Can't remember my other house, but I now have "stick down tiles" that I want to cover with vinyl sheeting. Should I remove them first? Some are moving or popping up. Or will the glue hold them and keep seams from popping or wearing through over time?

@gregrunningwolf3989 3 жыл бұрын

Cool video & spot on

@c1peewee 3 жыл бұрын

Extra work

@Emily34593 3 жыл бұрын

Hey which method is the best in your opinion to make everything perfect?

@user-se5mx1ej8x 4 ай бұрын

Come. Long way since then, vinyl and best way to lay it.

@abdullahiosman1485 3 жыл бұрын

She looks she is in Beverly Hill's 90210 in the ninetees

@erraticchromatic1667 2 жыл бұрын

That’s all you payed attention to?

@paulfalstad1 Жыл бұрын

She's gorgeous

@paulfalstad1 Жыл бұрын

...and looks, skills, intelligence...dynamite!

@joshuajohnson9735 Жыл бұрын

@@erraticchromatic1667 that and she arches her back well on all 4’s

@Joy-W777 Жыл бұрын

Why even comment?

@georginagreaves6373 2 жыл бұрын

So no cleaning of the floor/baseboard area etc...?! ~ SMH 🙄😫🙄

@johncarlos7810 2 жыл бұрын

Where to lay out if you dont have the space? Outside?

@NicoleB79 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this I'll be using this for my project 💙💙new SUBBIE

@Autotrope 2 жыл бұрын

Nice idea with the putty knife though

@jb-es5zj 2 жыл бұрын

you dont need to much glue or it becomes hard to get a smoth finish even with a roller

@BILLYJOE957 6 ай бұрын

What about nicks, scratches and little holes in existing vinyl sheet ? How do I fix it so these don't surface through my new floor ? Thank You

@NicoleB79 Жыл бұрын

What kind of paper is that I been looking ??

@jamesbomd3503 Жыл бұрын

What year did that kitchen come out of , looks like the video was shot in the early 70s

@Elin-Esteem84 Жыл бұрын

So u don't have to worry about air pockets underneath?

@lavishbyvicky8146 2 жыл бұрын

What suce is the flooring please?

@johnmorrison9758 3 жыл бұрын

In a large room like that, I just put the flooring down and start trimming. Keep pushing the vinyl into the corner of the wall and floor and trim at the crease. Much faster. I've done templates for small bathrooms.

@Emily34593 3 жыл бұрын

Which method is the best for the most perfect result in your opinion? I've never installed a vinyl floor but I want to do my whole house with vinyl. I think I'm going to do it on my own, it looks like it's quite easy to install if you're a noob.

@johnmorrison9758 3 жыл бұрын

@@Emily34593 In my experience, a small room like a bathroom is easier to do by making a template. I tape thing cardboard together to fit the room exactly and then lay the vinyl out on a floor large enough to hold the shape. Trace around the template and cut the sheet vinyl. You can then just drop it into place. Foe larger rooms, I can just drop the full sheet down, then press into the wall and keep trimming it down, a bit at a time, going around the room. Eventually you will have it trimmed exactly to fit.

@L.Spencer 11 ай бұрын

@@Emily34593 Did you end up installing vinyl floors? How did you do it?

@osonegro3205 3 жыл бұрын

330 was may favorite part just the way she looks back at me made me forget about the floor I was installing

@5m0k3n. 2 жыл бұрын

She's a 🦊

@GG-lv3xd 6 ай бұрын

be sure to remove the filth first

@vocalverseacapella Жыл бұрын

Wow I love seeing you stretch across the floor.. Honestly

@letter1967 6 ай бұрын

Maybe use that crescent wrench instead of pliers on that gas line so you don't booger up that nut.

@chipsahoy1122 3 жыл бұрын

So vinyl over vinyl?

@timj1196 2 ай бұрын

I dont know what she was doing but she shure looked good doing it.😮❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

@kristahaun7204 Жыл бұрын

If you’re going to completely redo the kitchen, why wouldn’t you remove the cabinets, baseboards and all appliances first. Also, remove that gross carpet. This just seems a bit backwards.

@zeldagoblin 3 жыл бұрын

Please clean those skirting boards first!!!

@jeremylocklear9118 2 жыл бұрын

with all due respect......I love you........lol jk. great vid. like the step by step approach.

@whotelakecity2001 3 жыл бұрын

What year is this? Is it from some kind of a show?

@MrKendyll 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, it was an early DIY program ran 30 minutes weekly. It was just before HGTV became a "thing." About the same time as the original "Trading Spaces" was popular.

@4seeableTV 2 жыл бұрын

I'd peg it to late 90's/early 2000's

@srinibala8360 3 жыл бұрын

Can someone tell me what sort of glue will suit this. I am in Australia and I have the exact requirement ie to lay vinyl on top of existing vinyl . I checked several hardware stores here and they all said that there is only glue to put the vinyl over cement or timber.

@michaelwest6238 3 жыл бұрын

You can use acrylic adhesive maybe f balls 44 if you can get it . But what ever adhesive you use dont spread it to thick as it will show through

@srinibala8360 3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelwest6238 Thanks heaps

@jibonchhobi7162 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@Joe-eg7ml 2 жыл бұрын

Don't you need a linoleum weighted roller. That's how did it when I was a kid. But great idea with template. We use to cut it as we laid it out.

@4seeableTV 2 жыл бұрын

A roller is preferable, but not always available as a rental.

@uniconvspandagamingchannel6898 2 жыл бұрын

Is this expensive

@workingTchr 2 жыл бұрын

Template is the way to go. One quip, if the paper roll was facing down (not up), I think it would be easier. And when it comes to cutting the straight parts on the vinyl, I'd use a straight edge (like a metal yard stick, etc). And I saw another tip: cut holes in the template at various points and then tape the template onto the actual vinyl. That'll keep it from sliding around. But you glue the WHOLE THING down? "Loose lay" is an approved method for small spaces like this when the vinyl has a rubber backing.

@amypleticha7993 3 жыл бұрын

What about dishwashers. Do you remove that too?

@taco_23 3 жыл бұрын

Yes

@ludavico1999 2 жыл бұрын

3:25

@Droobie420 Жыл бұрын

Never install over the old

@naturewatcher7596 Жыл бұрын

Why to glue new vinyl on top of the whole old flooring instead of just to the edges of it?

@dansanger5340 8 ай бұрын

Depends on how thick the vinyl is and on manufacturer's recommendations. If it's thin vinyl, and you only glue it around the edges, then if you drag heavy furniture across the middle it might catch and tear the floor.

@MrSoldierperson Жыл бұрын

Excellent work, but ain't nobody got time for that.

@magicfactorymusicinc.2101 Жыл бұрын

Very informative but you should definitely start using knee pads if u don’t already. Years of doing floors really takes a toll on your knees

@International-floors.0566 2 жыл бұрын

I want a job I have 10year experience vinyl installation

@gregsurridge7969 2 жыл бұрын

Laying vinal on vinal not a good idea

@4seeableTV 2 жыл бұрын

Way too much glue.

@idahopotato5837 3 жыл бұрын

Don't bother with the template. Just lay your new material out , cut to fit, then glue it.

@Emily34593 3 жыл бұрын

Which method is the best for the most perfect result in your opinion? Do you think someone with no experience can do a good/perfect job at this?

@idahopotato5837 3 жыл бұрын

@@Emily34593 I cut the straightest edge first then leave a few inches all around. Put it in the room and cut the excess off each side. When it lays flat roll 1/2 over onto the other side and glue. Lay that side in place then pull the unglued side up lay it over on the finished side. Glue that second half down and then start from the middle and roll out toward the edges. Do any final cut then. Usually you have a 1/2 trim board around the edge covering any miss cut. Just use the right trowel. 1/16 x 1/16 I recall. Not a whole lot of adhesive.

@idahopotato5837 3 жыл бұрын

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@puppybb3376 Жыл бұрын

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@1ColdFuture 11 ай бұрын

--------2:10

@Dan-gp9hb 6 ай бұрын

@3:30 should of been the thumbnail instead.

@terraterra7000 3 жыл бұрын

So simple, I dont even need to turn on the sound

@johnnyappleseed79 3 жыл бұрын

Good work and a hot woman. Great combo. Helped me

@winniegurney9587 2 жыл бұрын

Ummm. I was taught you remove baseboards and replace those. I'm freaked out by how filthy everything is. The template idea is good , though.

@winniegurney9587 2 жыл бұрын

@Hopper33 Exactly.

@randyloomis1047 Жыл бұрын

Yeah I know what your saying..

@Eyehearttravels Жыл бұрын

Did anyone pay attention ? She’s pretty hot with the 90’s look

@javiertrejo4564 Ай бұрын

Mmm mebgusta

@Jp-mk6hj 2 жыл бұрын

Way too much glue, you have to let the glue dry about 20 minutes until it is tacky

@psfgtech 4 ай бұрын

No way

@mecemoenoa8115 2 жыл бұрын

@Autotrope 2 жыл бұрын

Can't watch American diy videos because they use a different name for everything lol Quarter round? Quad! Cresent wrench? Shifter! Open wrench? Spanner!

@Nipplepotamus Жыл бұрын

Wow... Then what do you call half round? A deuce? I ask because quarter round is an accurate description. It is 1 quarter of a full circle. Quad means 4 which would mean 4 circles, that's why we call a 4-wheeler bike a quad... Lol! However, I do understand shifter and spanner. Those are old English terms. Lol!

@psfgtech 4 ай бұрын

Looks like the 1980' 😂