Re: Re: Playroom flooring

This is an archived message. Please visit our New Message Board If you would like more information regarding The Son-Rise Program please visit our Catalog and Mailing List Request form. Son-Rise Program Information - for families with special children. The New Son-Rise Program Catalog is now available! 32 pages packed with information, photos, stories, endorsements, Q&A's, and practical tools to help you get started with the Son-Rise ProgramŽ right away.

Posted By ola on October 23, 2000 at 21:42:12:

In Reply to: Re: Playroom flooring posted by Tim on October 23, 2000 at 17:28:28:

: : Hi Lisa,
: Gaylen has had far & away more experience with this, but I am a cheapskate so I went with cheap (68 cents/sq.ft) white linoleum with big squares, gray lines from Menards. We put it over a medium density carpet padding over a concrete floor. We then put 3/4" x 6" redwood boards (got free from neighbors - recycled) for basemolding. The wide wood is nice for bouncing balls off of! We did have to put in a seam, but it was not much trouble at all. Not proffesional, but you get what you can afford. One thing we would do different is get carpet padding that did not have hard bits of rubber in it since they tend to be felt as you play on the floor. With limited use of the room so far,(less than 100 hours) we have yet to see any problems. The key words I speak are CHEAP & EASY. Our room is 14' x 20', and the floor cost about $350 to put in. We do look at the flooring (as well as the walls) to be "expendable" since Thomas is into throwing things.

: If your looking for inexpensive, and not permanent, it is a really soft floor to play on.

: Tim - Wayzata MN

tim, i would love to hear exactly how you got this floor to stay on. we built a new playroom recently and we started out with concrete floor. we put padding and then carpet and then linolium. the only thing though is that we don't know how to keep the linolium from sliding all over the place. how did you nail it or glue it? we also have a seam and we don't know how to bind the linoluim together. i would really love some ideas and your experience on this as this has been a struggle and we can't find a solution for it since the floor underneath is not wood, therefore we can't nail the flooring onto anything. thanks alot, ola

Follow Ups

• Re: Re: Re: Playroom flooring Tim 11:06:52 10/26/00 (0)
• Re: Re: Re: Playroom flooring Tim 10:55:44 10/26/00 (0)

Name:
Subject: Re: Re: Re: Playroom flooring

Comments:: : : Hi Lisa, : : Gaylen has had far & away more experience with this, but I am a cheapskate so I went with cheap (68 cents/sq.ft) white linoleum with big squares, gray lines from Menards. We put it over a medium density carpet padding over a concrete floor. We then put 3/4" x 6" redwood boards (got free from neighbors - recycled) for basemolding. The wide wood is nice for bouncing balls off of! We did have to put in a seam, but it was not much trouble at all. Not proffesional, but you get what you can afford. One thing we would do different is get carpet padding that did not have hard bits of rubber in it since they tend to be felt as you play on the floor. With limited use of the room so far,(less than 100 hours) we have yet to see any problems. The key words I speak are CHEAP & EASY. Our room is 14' x 20', and the floor cost about $350 to put in. We do look at the flooring (as well as the walls) to be "expendable" since Thomas is into throwing things. : : If your looking for inexpensive, and not permanent, it is a really soft floor to play on. : : Tim - Wayzata MN : tim, i would love to hear exactly how you got this floor to stay on. we built a new playroom recently and we started out with concrete floor. we put padding and then carpet and then linolium. the only thing though is that we don't know how to keep the linolium from sliding all over the place. how did you nail it or glue it? we also have a seam and we don't know how to bind the linoluim together. i would really love some ideas and your experience on this as this has been a struggle and we can't find a solution for it since the floor underneath is not wood, therefore we can't nail the flooring onto anything. thanks alot, ola