Will click vinyl flooring contract and expand in 3 season cottage?

6/1/2014 at 10:08:07 PM

Hi Margaret.

I recently priced out a job for a 3 season room and the customer wanted the same thing. I declined to use click flooring "just in case."

While I do not have any hard facts, in my experience, unless it is extremely high quality (and thus expensive), there is a fairly good chance that there will be some shifting and popping and the like. The Winnipeg area can have some significant extremes in temperature so I would be very wary. If you can return the flooring, I would encourage it. Talk to the specialists and ask what they would recommend for your purposes (make sure you get some kind of documentation "just in case."

Be sure to let us know how things turned out on this project.

Brett

4/2/2018 at 3:11:57 PM

Hi Brett, back in 2014 I had asked for advise on using click vinyl at our cottage. You had advised me not to install it. I should have listened as the following year it did start to buckle and shift. in 2017 we had to remove all of the flooring and we ended up putting Laminate Flooring which has worked well in the bedrooms! Live and learn I guess.