Damaged Vinyl Flooring
Mobile home manufacturers like vinyl flooring because they can put it down so quickly and easily. They just unroll it on the floor and set the walls in place on top of it. No nasty time consuming edge work. Only carpet is easier, because with carpet you don’t even have to care if the subfloor is smooth.
When it comes time to repair or replace vinyl, it’s not as much fun. For starters, you will NOT be able to match the pattern. You will have a lot of edgework to get a good fit around the walls and builtins. If you are trying to avoid seams you will be cutting on a large unwieldy sheet of vinyl.
A repetitively recent alternative to sheet vinyl is laminated wood flooring. That is what was selected as replacement flooring for this house and you can see how it was done and the results at Installing Laminated Flooring. I strongly recommend you consider wood laminate if you are replacing carpet or vinyl in your home.
