Protect Cabinet Floors & Shelves

[Ace A.]

Hi BP!

I was wondering if any of you landlord out there have problems with water damage on your cabinets floors & shelves and what you use to protect it. I understand if there's a flood, not much you can do about that. This would be for small leaks / drips that sit on top of the floors / shelves for months.

This is an example of the inside of a kitchen cabinet floor, not my cabinet.

I'm contemplating weather to use an adhesive vinyl tile where you could just peel and stick to the floor or an vinyl linear where I would just cut to size and float it on the floor (Maybe use a little bit of glue).

My concern with adhesive vinyl tile is that 5 years from now, then I go to remove it.

1) How easy would it be to remove?
2) How easy to remove to adhesive from the floors?
3) How bad is it going to look?

Most of vinyl tile I've seen are $0.38 cent to $1.00 per 12x12. and the vinyl linear is a bit more around $8 for a 20 inch x 4 ft. Both are easy to install, and should take about 30 minutes each to do.

Has anyone here use any of the two?
I would love to install the vinyl linear for all my kitchen cabinets, but would be time consuming and probably run me like $100.

Thanks in advance.

[Dawn Anastasi]

I take vinyl remnants from stores which are about $20 and use those -- cut to size then screw in place making sure the back is curled up the back not just flat (so water won't run back behind the cabinet).

If the bottom of the cabinet is damaged, I'll take some plywood and cut to size and then put that down first.

The vinyl is nice because it's much easier to clean and looks nice when done.