We are having to replace very old floor due to flooding and we are stuck with what the insurance will pay for. They are supposed to replace with something comparable. What we have was there when we bought the house but I can say that it probably was very close to the cheapest available 16 years ago, BUT somehow it still seems to be far more durable than what we are reading about all of the vinyl sheeting out there today. I don't know if this is accurate, but I can take a piece of this stuff and ROLL IT INTO A TUBE without it breaking! had to cut it off with a knife to get the sample. However, even the contractor says all vinyl sheeting today is crappy and the reviews all include consumers who say theirs ripped from every day use, very very quickly (less than a year). I also have a relative who had this happen to her. I do not know where to go from here.

I need my kitchen put back together but it's going to be super hard to convince the insurance company to pay for a different kind of floor unless I can explain/prove that what's out there today just isn't the same.

Meanwhile, if it were available, I'd prefer vinyl sheeting because it's softer and easier on the joints plus no cracks in the floor means I don't have to worry about food getting in the cracks when this old house settles. (it's from the 50s and the floor is not level anymore, and especially now that they are rebuilding a joist and one corner of the kitchen is jacked up!)

As probably happens to many, my cost projections have hit a bit of a limit forcing me to review some options. Initially I planned to have tiling in the entry hall floor + kitchen (+-35sqm in total). Right now there is linoleum laid on concrete but it is quite dated so I will have to replace it anyway.

Is linoleum significantly cheaper than tiling and are there nowadays "nice" linoleum floorings?

Thanks!

I have an old house and a room that needs a new floor. It needs to be easy to clean and disinfect. I would prefer flooring that can be put down as a sheet, with as few joining cracks as possible.

Due to the character of my house, I would really love to use the kind of vintage printed linoleum that people’s grandparents had. I looked up where to get reproduction linoleum but I can’t find it anywhere. Everything close to what I want is vinyl sheet flooring, which I’ll do if there’s really no other choice, but I don’t love it. It’s even hard to find linoleum when you don’t care about the pattern or what color it is. I wonder if I am missing a search term or something.

My dad’s in a business where he sometimes has to source home improvement materials. I asked him this question and he said he hasn’t seen it for 20 years. He suggested posting ISO on Craigslist.

Does anyone know where to find new, new old stock, or like new linoleum flooring?