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Sorcha
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 02:19am
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We have a wood-tile kitchen floor (5x5 in. tiles) which has been progressively buckling over 4 years. This summer it just started popping up tiles. We wanted to replace it with 3ft sq 'Hercules'
brand wood tiles but were advised to go with linoleum tiles of
the same size since we don't heat the cabin in the winter. Temps
can go to -40 F. The rest of the cabin has wood floors (2.5 in. boards) and is doing fine. Other than the obvious cost advantage, does this make sense? We're not extremely 'handy' folks, but want the new floor to last, and prefer to keep up the 'log cabin' look and feel. Everything else is wood, inside and out. Any tips would be most appreciated!
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CabinBuilder
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 10:54am
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I used vinyl tiles for the cabin floor.
It has been few cold winters and tiles are holding OK so far. (Obviously you need to set them on clean surface, etc.)
I agree wood looks better, but you could pick tiles with wood-looking color design.
This is what I have:
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Sorcha
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# Posted: 23 Jul 2008 01:34pm
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Thank you CabinBuilder- Your vinyl looks much like the wood tiles we need to replace. I think we'll follow your suggestion. It gets mighty cold here in beautiful Lake of the Woods Canada. We'd much rather spend our time enjoying the cabin, than repairing it.
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MikeOnBike
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# Posted: 18 Dec 2009 07:15pm
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Our cabin will be unheated/unused over the winter with temps falling below 0F. I'm thinking about using a wood laminate floor over a plywood subfloor. Since these float I would think that it should manage the temp swings pretty well.
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Borrego
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# Posted: 19 Dec 2009 09:44pm
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Quoting: MikeOnBike Our cabin will be unheated/unused over the winter with temps falling below 0F. I'm thinking about using a wood laminate floor over a plywood subfloor. Since these float I would think that it should manage the temp swings pretty well.
If you're talking about the engineered wood floors, I agree. they withstand temperature changes well (as long as they are floated) Don't nail your base molding too tight :-)
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flatwater
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# Posted: 20 Dec 2009 08:11pm
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Years ago my wife and I went around to the different rug stores and hauled off their free scraps. We trimmed them up and cut to shape, and laded them down in a jigsaw puzzle shape. You just glue them to a big piece of black plastic. We used rubber cement. It turned out great when we were done. In the center was an eagle we cut out and glued down.
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