Do Not Perimeter Bond Vinyl

Starting at the center of the floor do not tape along walls or around perimeter of room.

Do not perimeter bond vinyl.

If you get any glue on the top of the vinyl use the recommended solvent for removing it. For perimeter bond floors lift up the edge and apply glue to the floor with a notched glue trowel. The floor patch will fill in the low places so that we don t feel any depressions under the new vinyl. The sheet vinyl must be clean and free of wax or other bond breakers.

It should not be perimeter glued it often is and it should not have a cushion or foam back. I don t get the philosophy of installing a low grade flooring in a high grade area. The exposed glue or vinyl flooring that has not yet bonded to the sub floor. But then i wouldn t full spread adhesive on luan plywood either crappy stuff that might delaminate.

This one is easy if you perimeter bond the flooring. Outside we roll the flooring out facedown on the drive so that we can make our. As an additional do not lift the vinyl into place because it may shift slightly and wrinkle. This perimeter surface bonding to the conductive reinforcing steel or the pool s copper bonding grid must be connected by a minimum 8 awg solid copper conductor at a minimum of four points uniformly spaced around the pool perimeter.

When the sun shines in the room the middle of the flooring will buckle up enough a sliding chair might mar it or even create a tripping hazard seriously the instructions should tell you why not just give orders. Product full spread perimeter plus areas s 599 set in wet or s 230 s 599 s 230 s 240 dry to touch bond tests should also be conducted for compatibility with the substrate. The sheet vinyl must be single layer only and well attached. A lot of people including installers will perimeter adhere felt backed sheet vinyl but not me.

The two major categories of sheet vinyl adhesive are perimeter bond adhesive and fully bonded adhesive. Only extend out from the wall as far as the manufacturer s directions indicate. The subfloor below the sheet vinyl must deflect less than the industry standard l 360 deflection criteria. While it dries we remove the shoe molding around the perimeter of the room.

Feb 23 2020. Do not install any vinyl backed flooring over existing asphalt tile or any view doc. We want to reuse the shoe mold so we re being very careful not to break it. On the floor the adhesive will not bond to the underlayment.

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