Laundry room flooring

[Anonymous]

We have a 1960s house and the sellers did some cheap cosmetic improvements. One is a cheap rolled linoleum floor in the laundry room. Through a series of unfortunate events, we need to replace the linoleum. There is presumed asbestos flooring underneath it that we assume we don’t have the budget to remove.

What type of flooring would you put in here, both material and design? Should we use this as an opportunity to do something fun and bold or keep it neutral?

[Anonymous]

For my rental property I put Mohawk hybrid resilient flooring walker creek oak from Costco and looks beautiful.
It’s waterproof and if the floor is level you can just put it on top.

[Anonymous]

Depending on what's below and the flooring in adjacent rooms, you could always add plywood or backer board and put any flooring you want on top of that.
Might be a slight elevation change though due to the extra material.

[Anonymous]

Go for fun!

[Anonymous]

We went for fun and used patterned cement tiles, similar to this:

[Anonymous]

In a laundry room, I would just do sheet vinyl again, something cute and retro:
https://www.zazous.co.uk/product/mid-century-cobalt-sheet-vinyl-flooring/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In a laundry room, I would just do sheet vinyl again, something cute and retro:
https://www.zazous.co.uk/product/mid-century-cobalt-sheet-vinyl-flooring/

I wanted to avoid vinyl that’s soft. Part of the unfortunate events was that it tore and left a hole. Unlikely to happen again, but I’m paranoid enough to not want to risk it again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Depending on what's below and the flooring in adjacent rooms, you could always add plywood or backer board and put any flooring you want on top of that.
Might be a slight elevation change though due to the extra material.

Adjacent flooring is a hallway is the same material probably covering the same flooring type. Probably need to replace that in the near future too. The hallway leads to a bedroom and family room that are both cheap hardwood flooring in a golden oak color. I don’t think we would need anything under the new flooring—it’s concrete slab with the old tiles on top. As long as we can adhere it to the asbestos tiles it will be fine.

The real problem is not knowing what type of flooring or even design I would want. Laundry room redo wasn’t on our renovation list at all, so we have no ideas.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In a laundry room, I would just do sheet vinyl again, something cute and retro:
https://www.zazous.co.uk/product/mid-century-cobalt-sheet-vinyl-flooring/

I wanted to avoid vinyl that’s soft. Part of the unfortunate events was that it tore and left a hole. Unlikely to happen again, but I’m paranoid enough to not want to risk it again.

Okay but then you have to deal with what’s underneath.