Westco Vinyl Flooring

With ref to Nikkisly, I can only guess the PVA hadn't dried out fully before she laid the tiles. The tiles are VERY sticky, and PVA was the correct primer to use, but it is water-based, and the tiles WON'T adhere unless it is bone-dry. (Priming is not needed on every surface, of course). I used Westco tiles on my kitchen floor. As I had floorboards, I tacked 6'x2' hardboard sheets down first, smooth side up to provide an even surface for the flexible tiles. Use 25mm panel pins (not longer, so as not to perforate anything below!) every 3-4" (yep, 100's!!!) to secure the hardboard. I actually used matt emulsion, with a little added PVA, ...  Read the complete review

I read Nikkisly's op with interest. However, I am thoroughly impressed with the Westco flooring that my husband and I spent laying on Saturday afternoon in our bathroom. It was relatively inexpensive. £5.29 for a pack of six tiles in homebase. We only needed four packs and as the dozy homebase cashier couldn't count to four we got ours at the brilliant price of£15.87! We chose a fetching marble effect blue tile. It was easy to cut - it said use a stanley knife but our sharp kitchen scissors seemed to do the trick. A lot safer to use as my husband has had battles with stanley knives and lost in the past... but that's a different ...  Read the complete review

The ageing cushion floor in our hall (and the shower room off it) was beginning to look a bit battered, so we decided that we should do something about new flooring. As this room gets a lot of traffic and consequent muddy foot and paw prints, our specifications for new flooring were pretty basic - it had to be hard wearing, easy to wash and, of course, look smart as well. With this in mind, we selected self adhesive vinyl floor tiles. (Westco, Colortone) in a fetching black and white 'chessboard' pattern. Last Saturday was floor laying day. We enthusiastically ripped up the old flooring and, as instructed,thoroughly cleaned the concrete floor and primed ...  Read the complete review