Mannington Vinyl Flooring - A Household Name

by Nancy

Mannington is another household name when it comes to flooring, as they are well known for their quality flooring products. Mannington vinyl flooring is just one of them floor types they make, along with rubber, carpets and many other related floor types and accessories.

Using the vinyl flooring by Mannington will give you a high quality product at a low cost. It is very durable, has a long life shelf and it's also quite attractive when placed in any room. You can add the Mannington flooring in the kitchen, bathroom and any other room that might be deemed as appropriate, where real wood flooring can not be added due to the humidity and excess water on the floor.

The Mannington gold vinyl flooring mimics the higher end hardwood flooring down to a tee, and it also has models that look just like natural stone, carved tiles or ceramic. It is extra resilient and it really complements any room decor with the many types of patterns of colors that it is available in. Being resilient means that it has all the durability and performance required for today's high traffic commercial applications.

Not only that but vinyl is a material that is easy to recycle, making it very eco-friendly, so if you are environmentally conscious, by installing Mannington vinyl flooring in your various rooms in the house you will actually help protect our land.

Installing Mannington vinyl flooring is not difficult at all and you can use their standard tiles up to 1 foot square. If you have a concrete, it goes perfectly on top, and wood subfloors are also good candidates. It is important for the subfloor to have moisture vapor level of less than 5 lbs per 1000 sq foot are over a day. Also it should be nice and level before you proceed with the vinyl floor installation.

Actually the best is to leave the tiles made by Mannington to sit in the room for 2 full days prior to their installation so any later cracking or shrinking is successfully avoided due to any temperature variations from its previous place vs. your room.

First lay out the tiles and then proceed with adding the glue. One of the reasons of going about it this way is because depending on the tiles pattern, you will avoid any mishaps or wrong tile arrangement. By first placing them down and seeing how it all fits together, you are effectively seeing in advance how your flooring will look once it's ready. The best glue to apply to the Mannington vinyl tiles is the Mannington M-Guart adhesive.

Go slowly using a notched trowel and add the glue to small places before moving on to the next. Depending on the layout of your room, it might not be fully square. In this case start laying out your Mannington tiles from the room center.

If you like the Mannington range of products, you might also be interested in the Mannington oak hardwood flooring, which is a high end flooring type by this renown manufacturer.