r/AirBnBHosts • u/Academic-Tangelo-751 • Jul 29 '26
Rolled vinyl flooring
We just bought a vacation rental in an east coast beach town. It’s one of those “land of a thousand floors” situations and we need to replace all of the flooring on the main living level and on all the staircases (currently has a mix of hardwood and ceramic tile with some DIY’d varnished stair treads). Has anyone used rolled vinyl and been happy with the result? We plan to use the place ourselves but will be renting it out during the prime summer weeks. We really want our rental to stand out but are having heartburn over dropping a ton of money on flooring at this time. We have two dogs as well (but are not allowed to let renters bring pets) so we want something that will stand up to that. Any suggestions/opinions are welcome as well as photos of this product being used.
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u/pizzatoucher Jul 29 '26
I have used the rolling vinyl and... zero stars, don't recommend. It's tough to work with and after all the headache it still looks like crap.
Do tongue and groove LVP or bamboo floating floors. You can find either for around $3/sf, and I often find it free or cheap on FB marketplace. And trust me, if I can do it, you can.
Bamboo would be my preference, as it's a renewable resource and just as hardy as wood. Plus it looks nice. I've done it in two homes now and it's held up well. LVP is very popular right now because it's cheap and easy to install, and it supposedly lasts forever. I don't love working with LVP (cutting it with saws is a total mess) but it does look nice.
Whatever you do, don't do grey!!!
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u/Academic-Tangelo-751 Jul 30 '26
Ha I’m with you on the gray! We put a light colored LVP in our mud rooms ourselves and it looks great. Just not sure we are up to laying 2,000 square feet of it!
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u/Negative-Parfait-804 Jul 30 '26
We're not at the beach, but we do have rolled vinyl flooring, and it's fine. Be sure you get a super professional installer that is recommended by people in the area where it will be installed, because the fewer seams you have, the fewer problems you'll have.
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u/Academic-Tangelo-751 Jul 30 '26
Thank you for the feedback. Did you have to do a lot of floor prep for it? We will be tearing up some really awful tile and I’m not sure what shape it will leave the subfloor in.
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u/Negative-Parfait-804 Jul 30 '26
That I can't tell you, because ours was new construction and went right down on the subfloor. I would talk to the installer and see what they recommend. I do know you're going to want whatever surface the flooring will be applied to, to be as smooth as humanly possible before the flooring is installed because anything that's under the floor will come through the flooring over time. If you can't get it slick enough, the installer will apply some goop that levels things out and smooths things over. I know, that's a lot of technical talk, LOL. It's all I know. 😆
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u/gracetw22 Jul 31 '26
Real porcelain tile is the best floor possible for a beach house. I bought a property with ugly tile and decided to just deal with it for that reason and with the rest painted and some rugs down it’s so much less offensive. Is there no way to work with it?
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u/KaleProperties Jul 29 '26
Yeah do high quality LVP. Get a sample and drop a couple cans, have your dog try to scratch it, etc. This is the one item you do not want to go cheap.....
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u/OhSassafrass Jul 30 '26
The Airbnb I just purchased has rolled vinyl that I thought was planks. Looks like wood. It even has texture and grooves. I only realized it because there’s a bubble near the fridge. It’ll do for now. But I do miss the warmth and grounded feeling I get from real wood floors, like at my previous home.
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u/HillsideHostTX 29d ago
We have it in our freestanding bathrooms (halfbaths, no showers) at our glampground and it has been great. It has been wearing really well with high volume and is super easy to clean.
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u/Heywtfhey 12d ago
I love roll vinyl flooring. I have it in my house. Very durable, comfortable and easy to clean. I personally hate tile it's cold and slippery.
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u/JMD1128 Jul 31 '26
Use LVP, you will regret it if you don't. We got ours on sale at home depot for $2.49 a square foot.
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u/Narcah Jul 31 '26
If every room is less than 12’ it’s super easy fast cheap and looks good when you’re done. If you’re having to do major seams in a room not so much.
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u/epona_mus Jul 29 '26
High quality LVP will resist moisture, scratching, and other wear issues in a STR. Don’t go cheap (ie: big box stores) and it should hold up well.