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I am doing a mild update on an infrequently used guest bathroom. It gets used about 4 or 5 times per year.
I was thinking of using vinyl plank flooring that locks together like laminate flooring. It is waterproof and the thicker ones won't telegraph any grout lines (my floors are almost perfectly flat anyhow).
Two questions:
Does anyone here have any experience with this stuff?
It is about 3/16" thick. Will it create problems when I install a new toilet?
The update was just going to be paint on the walls, but when I pulled the wallpaper the wall surface was seriously damaged. So I am applying wainscoting and beadboard wall coverings.
I will be adding a new toilet, vanity, lights and medicine cabinets. I don't want to rip up the tiles as it is more work than I care to undertake for a rarely used bathroom.
Let me know your experience with vinyl plank and what I have to do for the toilet, it is gaining in height over the old one.
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there are spacers to raise toilet flanges. My brother just went through this, because a lot of people don't realize that wax seals are not strong enough to hold the water back if they aren't backed up by the flange. He discovered it when there was a water spot on the ceiling downstairs.
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Never seen a vinyl floating floor, so no opinion on that.
However, I would float a leveler on the existing floor to guarantee flatness.
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I have a vinyl plank floor it snapped together way faster than laminate and has held up well so far. As far as grout lines underneath if I was worried I would roll out the underlayment they sell for it. As for the toilet I would use 2 of the sani seals as I have learned they can be stacked. My first try with one had bad results as I thought it was thick enough and came up short. A few months later learned they could be stacked to accommodate the height
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that looks really nice, Bob. Do you recall the brand?
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I have Adura by Mannington in my kitchen. I just went and priced redoing the rest of the house in a woodgrain. I happened to talk to an installer and he said that with this particular brand (note, I'm not talking about any brand but Adura by Mannington), do not but the click version. Buy the glue down version only. They have had too many call backs. Other brands, click together is fine. It is a floating floor, at least the way I did mine was. I highly recommend it.
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Cooler said:
I just found this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Fluidmaster-E...-7514/203764000
Do you think this will work?
Don't use a wax seal ever again. Use one of the silicone seals. Any of them are better than a wax seal. The wax seal is now officially redundant. They will keep making them for those that want a cheap seal and those that won't try anything new.
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Robert Adams said:
[blockquote]Cooler said:
I just found this: http://www.homedepot.com/p/Fluidmaster-E...-7514/203764000
Do you think this will work?
Don't use a wax seal ever again. Use one of the silicone seals. Any of them are better than a wax seal. The wax seal is now officially redundant. They will keep making them for those that want a cheap seal and those that won't try anything new.
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Then this Sani-seal??
http://www.homedepot.com/p/Unbranded-Toi...-BL01/203564758
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