Linoleum Sheet Floor Cleaning
Linoleum Sheet Flooring is cheap, easy to install, and will last a long time. If it’s kept clean, it can pass for a much more costly flooring option, and no one will be the wiser! Before choosing this long-time standard flooring style, it’s essential to do your homework and understand what you are getting into, so here are the pros and cons to consider before you commit to a linoleum sheet floor option. Let’s take a look.
Who Still Buys Linoleum Flooring?
Yes, when we think about linoleum flooring, we often think “outdated” – but linoleum sheet flooring has enjoyed a renascence of late. Modern manufacturing methods have allowed this very reasonably priced and versatile flooring to show up just about everywhere, from high-traffic businesses to residential housing and apartment complexes.
What’s Linoleum Flooring Like?
First of all, it’s easy to keep clean! This is good news for you because we here at Night Owl Floor Services can make quick work of keeping your linoleum floors looking beautiful!
It’s also quite resilient, which means it compresses and allows for a bounce in your step when walking on it.
It comes in sheets that can be glued down or tiles that can be snapped together and are made from all-natural materials, including:
Cork powder
Pine resin
Wood flour
Linseed oil
Limestone dust
To make Linoleum flooring even more desirable, it’s typically priced at roughly $2-$5 per square foot.
Pros of Linoleum Sheet Flooring
It’s incredibly durable and can come with up to a 25-year warranty. If it’s kept clean, it can last up to 45 years – or even longer.
Linoleum doesn’t emit harmful VOCs, even though new linoleum has a distinct smell that’s from linseed oil and will go away after some time.
It’s fully biodegradable and guilt-free. This means that given time in a landfill, it will compost naturally.
Scratches and jabs in the flooring are more easily hidden due to the coloring of linoleum flooring being distributed evenly through the thickness of the material.
Very little maintenance is required, just routine cleaning and sweeping, which makes it easy for us to keep your floors looking great!
Cons of Linoleum Sheet Flooring
If it’s been recently waxed or if it’s new, it can be quite slippery, so have a caution sign handy.
Linoleum floors can darken or yellow over time if they get a lot of direct sunlight. There are protective coats that can be applied to sheet flooring that will help to prevent this from happening.
Linoleum isn’t the worst at being water-resistant but it isn’t the best either. It is recommended not to place linoleum sheet flooring in bathrooms, kitchens, or laundry rooms.
Linoleum sheet flooring is easier to ding and dent than other harder flooring options. Scraping a heavy chair across it just-so can leave a series of noticeable marks on occasion.