Bathroom floor
A weekend project that almost anybody can accomplish is replacing vinyl flooring. Vinyl can be bought in sheets or tiles and lasts a lifetime with proper care. Should you need to replace your vinyl floor because of damage or just the desire to refresh your bathroom's look, follow the steps below and you will have a new floor in no time.
Instructions
1. Remove the toilet and sink. Remove the baseboards around the room. These can be pried off the walls with a hammer.
2. Cut the existing into long strips using a utility knife. The strips should be one foot wide.
3. Use a putty knife to pry up one end of a strip of vinyl. Pull up the vinyl flooring one strip at a time. If the floor is full-bonded, meaning the entire floor is glued down instead of just around the edges, use the putty knife to loosen the length of strips of flooring.
4. Remove loose adhesive from the sub-floor with a long handed chisel. You can also use a heat gun to soften the adhesive for easier removal. The floor should be smooth.
5. Make a template of the bathroom floor using craft or butcher paper. Lay the paper out on the floor and cut small holes in the paper so you can tape the paper to the floor while marking the template. Using scissors, cut out the template of the bathroom floor.
6. Cut the vinyl. Roll out the flooring and lay the template over the new flooring. Tape the template to the using the holes previously cut in the paper. Cut the new vinyl flooring according to the template.
7. Lay the cut vinyl floor in the bathroom to make sure that the fit will be good. Trim the vinyl floor if needed. Remove the vinyl from bathroom.
8. Spread adhesive on the a metal trowel, backing out of the bathroom as you spread the adhesive.
9. Roll the floor with a 100 pound roller. Work from the center of the room out. Reinstall the toilet and sink. Replace the baseboards.
10. Unroll the new vinyl floor over the adhesive.
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