All Forum Posts by: Mickey Brown

Oh and another problem I've heard about is sunlight causing them to warp? Has that happened to anybody here?

So I bought a 4 unit in what i would consider a B class neighborhood. The units have badly installed cheap damaged linoleum floors. I'm looking to upgrade to a flooring option that will look nice, hold up over time, be easy to repair, and not break the bank. I plan on owning this building for at least 50 years.

I'm leaning towards luxury vinyl planks, since they seem to be the preferred choice of investors. However i have a friend who claims water gets underneath them easily and damages them, is this true? Also with the locking kind, what if i need to replace a piece in the middle because it was scratched up by furniture? Can i cut it out and put in a new piece, or do i have to unlock all of the pieces in the same row, until i reach the damaged one? 

Also I don't know anything about underlayment. I was thinking about installing a rubber underlayment in the upstairs units to reduce footstep noise.  (like this: https://www.rubberflooringinc.com/underlayment/2mm...). Is there any reason this kind of underlayment won't work with certain flooring choices, or are there better kinds of underlayment to choose from for noise reduction? 

I have to pay for the electric in the basement. The tenants go down there to do laundry and leave the lights on.

There's a mixture of pull-chain screw-in bulb fixtures, and florescent lights with pull-chains that are plugged into 2-prong outlets in the ceiling. 

I figure there must be some kind of motion sensor adaptors for either of these, where I could plug the lights into the adaptor, and then plug the adaptor into the outlet/socket. My googling came up empty handed however. Anyone know of something like this?

What about this stuff? 

https://www.rubberflooringinc.com/underlayment/rub...

Ever tried anything like this under vinyl?

I just bought a 4 plex in Cuyahoga Falls Ohio. It's 90 years old so the floors are really creaky. I want to get the kind of vinyl that is going to do a good job at reducing noise from tenants walking around, but will also hold up to scratches from furniture as much as possible. I'm 29 and plan on owning the house forever, so I'm in this for the long haul. I have zero experience with engineered floors and have never lived in a home that had them. Obviously I don't want to waste money but I'm willing to spend what will give me the best bang for my buck in the long term.