How to Install Linoleum Flooring in a Bathroom Without Removing the Toilet
Because of linoleum's water and stain-resistant characteristics, many homeowners use linoleum sheets as a bathroom floor covering. Unlike other types of floor coverings, linoleum flooring's flexible nature lets the flooring installer lay a single piece of linoleum flooring in a bathroom without removing the toilet, eliminating the need for a plumber. When installing linoleum flooring in an existing home's bathroom, the flooring installer often butts the linoleum sheet's edge against the baseboard. Linoleum flooring bonds against both wooden and concrete subfloors. Does this Spark an idea?
Things You'll Need
- Floor scraper
- Broom
- Dustpan
- Felt paper
- Scissors
- Masking tape
- Utility knife
- Linoleum adhesive
- 1/8-inch V-notch glue trowel
- 100-lbs. floor roller
- Bathroom caulking
Instructions
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Shave any debris off the bathroom subfloor with a floor scraper. Use care to avoid striking the toilet's base with the floor scraper's blade.
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Clean the dust and debris from the bathroom floor with a broom and dustpan.
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Cover the bathroom floor with felt paper and cut the paper to size with scissors, creating a template of the bathroom floor. If the bathroom floor's template requires more than one piece of felt paper, lock the additional pieces of paper together with masking tape.
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Unroll the linoleum flooring sheet on a clean, smooth and flat surface. Keep the linoleum flooring's finished surface facing up.
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Set the bathroom floor's template on the unrolled sheet of linoleum. Adjust the template to fit the linoleum and secure the template to the linoleum with masking tape.
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Cut the linoleum flooring sheet to size with a utility knife, using the template as a cutting guide. Slice the linoleum between the toilet base's cutout and the wall behind the toilet.
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Lay the linoleum flooring on the bathroom floor. Adjust the linoleum's position on the bathroom floor until the cut edges match the bathroom's walls and the linoleum's toilet cutout wraps around the toilet's base.
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Roll up the half of the bathroom's linoleum flooring opposite of the toilet, exposing half of the bathroom's subfloor.
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Spread linoleum adhesive across the exposed portion of the bathroom's subfloor, using a 1/8-inch V-notch glue trowel to apply the adhesive.
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Unroll the linoleum flooring onto the adhesive. Adjust the edge of the linoleum to match the bathroom's wall.
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Roll the second half of the linoleum flooring onto the first half.
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Spread the linoleum adhesive on the second half of the bathroom's subfloor with the glue trowel, working from behind the toilet toward the rolled edge of the linoleum.
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Unroll the linoleum flooring's second half onto the adhesive.
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Press the linoleum flooring into the adhesive with a 100-lbs. floor roller, working from the center of the floor toward each wall and around the toilet.
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Cover the seam between the linoleum flooring and each baseboard with bathroom caulking. Run a bead of the bathroom caulk around the toilet's base.
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