Vinyl flooring installers

Sheet vinyl, glue-down luxury vinyl plank (LVP) and glue-down vinyl tile. Sheet vinyl is my favourite job after carpet. I don’t install click-together plank or laminate: they need a floor that’s almost perfectly flat, and some floors can’t get there.

It’s priced by the square foot, with a minimum charge, and you get the number when I measure, before anything’s booked. Levelling, taking up the old floor and moving appliances are extras, priced at the same visit. The estimate is free in Mission, Maple Ridge, Abbotsford and Pitt Meadows, and $100 anywhere else, credited back if you go ahead.

Most people call sheet vinyl lino, and so did my old business card. Strictly speaking, linoleum is a different material. Sheet vinyl comes off a wide roll, so a small room can often go down in one piece, with no seams to come apart.

Vinyl shows whatever’s under it: an old floor’s pattern, a joint or a bump will come through. On the Abbotsford job in these photos, I spread levelling compound over the old floor first, then laid the sheet vinyl on top. On a new subfloor, I patch all the joints before anything goes down.

Yes, glue-down plank and glue-down tile, like the grey tile room in these photos. Anything glue-down, really. That includes vinyl composite tile (VCT) on commercial jobs, mostly through builders. It’s click-together plank I leave alone.

Yes. You buy it and I install it. I measure first and tell you how much to get, and I can pick it up from the store for about $50.

We pick the finish together when I measure, like a flat metal bar or a nap lock. The Abbotsford room in these photos got a metal strip at the door, where it meets the carpet. If you’re putting new carpet in the next room too, I can do both.

Yes, one year on the work, printed on my invoice. If it lifts or opens at a seam within a year because of how I laid it, I come back and fix it. A flaw in the flooring itself goes to the store’s warranty, not mine.