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Vinyl plank flooring


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I posted this in my beginner questions topic but I think it might serve better as its own topic. 

I recently built a house and ended up with quite a few boxes of vinyl click together flooring left over. It’s the life proof stuff from Home Depot with the underlayment already attached. I don’t know if that padding lubricated the blade well, but it cut like a hot knife through butter. I used one blade on the picture below. 

The piece never needed to be sanded before or after, no staining/painting, and the the edges don’t look to bad. Let me know what you think, or if I’m missing something obviously wrong. It’s 3$ a sqft, but not needing to prep or finish might be worth it? 

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I have a few boxes of leftover from re-flooring my house.. I did cut some on my saw for some custom shaped pieces I needed.. I do know it really dulls a chop saw blade quite fast.. but I didn't cut enough on the scroll saw to really know how it was for those blades.. Did learn after my dull chop saw blade that if I scored it with a box cutter type knife you could snap it.. much like drywall board..

I may have to dig out some of those and see how it goes.. if good cutting.. one could hook up with a flooring installer for cut offs etc.. to probably supply more than they'd need..

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6 hours ago, Fireball said:

I posted this in my beginner questions topic but I think it might serve better as its own topic. 

I recently built a house and ended up with quite a few boxes of vinyl click together flooring left over. It’s the life proof stuff from Home Depot with the underlayment already attached. I don’t know if that padding lubricated the blade well, but it cut like a hot knife through butter. I used one blade on the picture below. 

The piece never needed to be sanded before or after, no staining/painting, and the the edges don’t look to bad. Let me know what you think, or if I’m missing something obviously wrong. It’s 3$ a sqft, but not needing to prep or finish might be worth it? 

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Neat, I have something similar, will have to try it. In the mean things I will look out for such in the free areas....

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On 1/22/2018 at 6:40 PM, Fireball said:

I posted this in my beginner questions topic but I think it might serve better as its own topic. 

I recently built a house and ended up with quite a few boxes of vinyl click together flooring left over. It’s the life proof stuff from Home Depot with the underlayment already attached. I don’t know if that padding lubricated the blade well, but it cut like a hot knife through butter. I used one blade on the picture below. 

The piece never needed to be sanded before or after, no staining/painting, and the the edges don’t look to bad. Let me know what you think, or if I’m missing something obviously wrong. It’s 3$ a sqft, but not needing to prep or finish might be worth it? 

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Looks like you found a great wood to work with!!!!!!Keep posting your work!!!Your good to go!!!!!!!!

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Your stuff with the underlayment appears to cut a LOT-easier than the vinyl flooring I tried to use.  What a blade wrecker mine is!  My Pegas MG blades would last 10 minutes at best.  And the stuff stinks as I cut too.  My saw is in the basement and the smell went through the house.  As a bonus it did inspire me to buy a good quality air filter system though.  

 

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Looks nice Tyler, but I like the look of real wood better. I don't find that items made of this type of material, to be very good sellers. People just don't seem to accept it, they only wanted real wood projects. I had only made a few items to see if they would sell, I ended up giving them away to a neighbors kid for mowing my lawn. He was happy to get them, and I was happy to get rid of them.

 

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