Linoleum used as an under cabinet liner question

[havasu]

I was recently listening to a few folks discussing using linoleum remnants as cabinet liners (primarily under sink and potential wet areas) and they asked me what would be the best way to secure it. Not securing it will cause curled up edges, glue is too permanent, nails look tacky, so what do the experts think would work the best to secure this?

 

[Ernesto]

Velcro sticky tabs.

 

[happyhours]

Loose lay with shoe molding

 

[rugaddict]

double sided tape or thumb tacks---best of all is fiberglass backed---never curls at all

 

[FloorMaven]

Not securing it will cause curled up edges,...

Says who?

 

[havasu]

Says who?

Everyone I have seen installed, including my house and my girlfriend's house. Maybe you could recommend a good quality linoleum that doesn't curl on the edges?

I myself tossed the unsightly linoleum and replaced it with ceramic tile under most of my cabinets.

 

[ernie]

Did a recent vinyl/laminate job and told the lady to use the scraps of vinyl for under the cabinets. She loved the idea. Course she had me do them. O Got some sticky strips of Velcro you can buy.
But when I was a kid my dad loose layed some vinyl in our bathroom. Threw some newspapers under it.....for Lord knows what!
Worked out pretty damn good for twenty years until I put ceramic tiles in there. The newspapers were still in great shape.

 

[Jon]

Says who?

Me
Well it doesn't curl like the old stuff. It just lays flat, have a look at the samples which have been around for a long time

 

[FloorMaven]

It just lays flat, have a look at the samples which have been around for a long time

That's exactly what Lino does. I think folks might be confusing Linoleum with sheet vinyl.

 

[Ernesto]

Why don't you install it coved, with cove cap and a piece at the doors as well.

 

[havasu]

Why don't you install it coved, with cove cap and a piece at the doors as well.

That right there is a great idea.

 

[highup]

If the piece lays flat and is fit neatly, put a small bead of caulking around the perimeter under the lino to adhere it, then add another small bead on top to stop the curl. Just be sure the bead is complete, so of water gets on it, it can't get under it.
.........or staple it with your hammer tacker.

 

[Incognito]

a small bead of clear silicone around the perimeter works great

 

[Incognito]

Me
Well it doesn't curl like the old stuff. It just lays flat, have a look at the samples which have been around for a long time

Yeah, it's vinyl that wants to curl. If linoleum is curling there something else going on like mishandled, defective product, spills or dramatic temperature change.

 

[Jon]

That's exactly what Lino does. I think folks might be confusing Linoleum with sheet vinyl.

These vinyls with the plastic backings now days or designed to loose lay. They stay flat

 

[Floorist]

Did a recent vinyl/laminate job and told the lady to use the scraps of vinyl for under the cabinets. She loved the idea. Course she had me do them. O Got some sticky strips of Velcro you can buy.
But when I was a kid my dad loose layed some vinyl in our bathroom. Threw some newspapers under it.....for Lord knows what!
Worked out pretty damn good for twenty years until I put ceramic tiles in there. The newspapers were still in great shape.

Newspaper was used under lino in the 50s. It was cheaper than tarpaper.

 

[DarisMulkin]

Newspaper was used under lino in the 50s. It was cheaper than tarpaper.

And long before that. I tore up lino and there were newspapers from the 30's with headlines about one of the bigwigs in my home town. Not good ones either. My boss told me to destroy the papers-I didn't.

Daris

 

[highup]

And long before that. I tore up lino and there were newspapers from the 30's with headlines about one of the bigwigs in my home town. Not good ones either. My boss told me to destroy the papers-I didn't.

Daris

You still have them?

 

[DarisMulkin]

You still have them?

I probably do somewhere here. I do remember there was an add for a new Chevrolet -with a radio- for eight hundred and something.

Daris

 

[ernie]

Newspaper was used under lino in the 50s. It was cheaper than tarpaper.

And cheaper than glue as well.

Lose laying vinyl and lino has been around a long time