Anyone used ALLURE Vinyl Interlocking Planks??

[Joel Owens]

I just bought an office condo to house a full time worker for back office items. The front entrance door to hallway is currently what I thought were old wood floors. Flooring guy comes by today and looks at re-sanding. Checks out the floor and says it is engineered wood and 3/8's level 5 and cannot be re-sanded. There is also some water damage. Over the 12 years some water would come in from concrete slope entrance on the outside as there is no overhang. I think tenants also had some plants there as well. Water issue is dried and just to wood floors in certain spots.

I got an amazing price on this unit and it is an awesome area so knew I would need to spend some money as the carpets need replacing also but everything else is great.

They check the wood floor and it is glued down to subfloor. They didn't recommend hardwood floor at front entrance or laminate or engineered because not waterproof from outside rain etc. occasionally coming in etc.

I thought of slate tile but they said the 3/8 engineered wood the door barely clears opening now. If I put slate on top of subfloor then you have to balance it out to prevent cracking and would raise the floor height to where the fiberglass front door would not open anymore.

So after all of that process the VCT tile was recommended. The look of wood or slate but would be waterproof. The interlocking is waterproof versus the vinyl plank you stick on is water resistant and can come up later the corners etc. Based on that the interlocking sounds best. The store guy said I might could go over existing wood floor but that would raise the height to much for front door to open. Wood guy mentioned self leveling agent for the subfloor before putting interlocking on once we remove old wood floor.

I have already took off some moulding on the sides and luckily it is one price of trim. Wood floor guys said sometimes it breaks if put on in multiple pieces. Wood floor is glued down but I was able to get a piece up rather easily today.