Anyone have experience with vinyl plank flooring in a rental? The stuff I am referring to can be seen here: TrafficMaster Allure 6 in. x 36 in. Cherry Resilient Vinyl-Plank Flooring Thanks

My husband finished our 1800 sq ft basement with this. It looks beautiful, isn't noisy like laminate, is indestructible and comes up easily. We love it. Wish I had it everywhere.

I noticed that in some places, the edges are pulling apart.

It's been down in one of our houses for 6 years now. Still looks good. Gail

My son is midway through installing one right now. He put the wood look in one kitchen and it has held up well. So now he is doing a laundry room, bathroom, and kitchen in the tile look Allure plank. Having learned from the last install, he bought a super fine blade for his chop saw, and it makes the job much easier. There is more waste with the tile look, because the "grout lines" have to be matched up. There was virtually no waste with the wood look. It goes down really fast if the room is square and the walls are straight. It's slower when there are lots of closets and some diagonal walls, but when the floor shape is complex, it is a lot easier to fit than sheet vinyl. I scrubbed the old floor and the new floating plank goes right over the top of the old vinyl floor.

Thanks devnic, but I have one question, what do you mean by 'it comes up easily'? Jay

Jay- It comes up easily when you want to take it up. The planks do not stick to the floor but to each other and float on top of the floor.

I agree with @Brian Haskins these self stick floors do not hold up to water and as we all know, tenants love to spill and flood. We instead use a full glue down laminate plank. Many styles available so simple google search should find them. Quite a bit more difficult to install as you usually need to lay new subfloor so you have solid clean surface to glue to. Bonus is though they are very tough. Had some turnover were tenants destroyed carpets, some walls and doors but these floors just needed a mopping to look like new. Had to replace one plank once that we figured tenant left dog urine sitting there for extended period of time which lifted the plank. Glue is heavy duty like rubber cement, just heat and pull old up, quick trowel of new glue and set replacement.

Used vinyl plank in upstair second bedroom/office in townhouse I bought as an investment (my daughter lives in it). So far so good. Easy to clean. My daughter and her boyfriend installed the floor and cutting the edges was a pain. As others have said here, when we do the other upstairs bedroom, I will definitely use a chop saw with a fine blade.

I think I might try it in my new rental. After you buy the underlayment and laminate the price point isn't too much more - but to have waterproof flooring is a large plus for rentals. I would have to use the floating kind though as it will hide imperfections in the subfloor due to foundation shifts. I don't mind paying an extra $0.30/sq. ft. if I know I will not have to replace a lot of flooring between tenants. I like the fact you can do one flooring throughout and easy repair patch. I guess time will tell as I have one with laminate and title and one soon with all vinyl plank. This is an older thread - anyone else have experience with vinyl plank (floating) installs in the past? How have they held up?

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