Stopped by my local Home Depot today for a few things. I have a project where I only needed about 8 square feet of peel and stick vinyl tile. I picked a box that had 12x 12 tiles for .89 cents a sq. foot. Some of the other boxes had "Do not open case, not for individual sale" on the boxes or price tags. The tile I picked did not have this phrase, and the case was already open with many tiles removed. I got to the register and was told I could not buy them individually. Me being a jerk said "oh yes I can...each one has a barcode."....THe associate scanned it and showed the individual tile does not ring up. I was angry and a bit rude to the associate until I realized it really isn't their fault. I apologized and thanked her for helping show me its not possible.

She commented that its a newer policy, hence the half bought boxes... she also mentioned many customers are pissed about the new policy and she is screamed at daily over it. As I didn't need a case that covered 3 times the area I needed, I left and went to Lowe's where the still allow you to buy individual tiles.

What in the hell is Home Depot thinking with this new policy?! I just bought an individual tile there about 3 months ago.

My previous apartment had vinyl flooring in the kitchen and although it had only been laid down sometime in the 90s, it was peeling up and faded. My parents house has linoleum checkerboard that was laid down in the 1940s or 50s and it is pretty much perfect. I just bought my first place and I want linoleum in the areas where I'm not laying down parquet. However I cannot seem to find real linoleum, it's all vinyl. Where can I find it?

We’re replacing about 500 square feet of carpeting and linoleum flooring on one floor of our house. We have 2 young kids and a dog. In my research, it sounds like Vinyl flooring is the way to go over hardwood flooring in this case. The floor below this level is a basement with exposed ceiling showing the subfloor of the level we’re redoing. It all looks to be in good shape form that angle.

We’ve shopped Menards and Home Depot, also a contractor pointed us to the Coretec brand of luxury vinyl flooring. But that might be a bit out of our price range and we found a “wood grain/color” that would look great, in the LifeProof. Anyone have any experience with the Home Depot LifeProof brand? Or Vinyl flooring in general? Any thoughts or input is appreciated. This is also my first flooring experience. I’m very handy and have done everything from plumbing, framing, to electrical.

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?