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Default kitchen floor damaged by chairs with wheels.

My kitchen is 12' x 12 (if one goes to the wall everywhere despite
appliances and cabinets) ' and it came with a floor made of sheet
vinyl, No seams. The floor looked great when it was 10 or 15 years
old, until I bought two kitchen chairs with casters on them.

The wheels were like a rolling pin, rolling out a pie crust, with the
vinyl pushed ahead of the wheel and after 6 or 9 months the top layer
of the vinyl, where all the decoration is, was falling off.

But I like wheels on the chairs, and I want to get a new one-piece
floor that won't be ruined by wheels.

I was in HDepot tonight and even at 3.25 a square foot, the pattern
layer was a thin layer on a thick layer of plain white vinyl. The
sign bragged about a bunch of features but said not a word about
wheels.

What would you all recomomend that comes in a one-piece sheet but
won't have its pattern ruined by chair wheels?



I'd like to put it down myself if I can.

Although the last time I bought a floor he trimmed it in literally 4
minutes what would have taken me 4 hours. Charged only the current
equivalent of 40 dollars.

Maybe make a stencil from the old floor and cut it to the same
dimensions.

Thanks.