Re: kids room flooring- marmoleum
From: Caren Albercook (calbercookyahoo.com)
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:56:04 -0800 (PST)
Hi,
   We have marmoleum flooring throughout our common
house and while it is a low emission flooring, it is
labor intensive to maintain.  It needs to be sealed
every year in order to get the lifespan that warranted
the original expense.  Every year, we spend 2 days
moving the furniture around (half the CH one day and
the other half the 2nd day) to get the floors sealed. 
I think that if we knew then what we know now about
how many things need doing to maintain the community
and the CH, I don't think we would buy it again.  
   I don't know the particulars of the sealant, but
have heard conversations about questionable chemical
content of the sealer recommended by the marmoleum
distributer.
   It also doesn't wear well in the kitchen where we
do alot of twisting and turning, often with abrasive
food bits under foot.  And the inevitable water from
the dish racks coming out of the dishwasher have worn
the floor out in half the expected time.  We're
looking to replace it in the next couple of years, and
we have been using our CH for 8 years.  Caren

--- Dahako [at] aol.com wrote:

> Hi-
>  
> At Eastern Village, we have real linoleum in the
> kids room, with a few rugs  
> helping to define the various play areas.  There is
> a really nice  small rug 
> on one edge of the room, with a mirror hung low on
> the wall  next to it.  That 
> is the little baby area. One of our neighbors is a
> former  Montessori school 
> teacher and she helped set it up.  A week or so ago,
> she  pulled some stuff out 
> of the room, rearranged, and added a train table.  
> Kids do the messy stuff, 
> like painting, in the lino areas, and have rugs and 
> pillows elsewhere. 
>  
> We also have a "game" room for older kids (and some
> adults).  It also  has a 
> linoleum floor. In fact, most of the common house
> has linoleum  floors.  The 
> dining room has bamboo.  I think the guest rooms
> might  have carpet, but I 
> can't remember and I'm feeling to lazy to walk over
> and look.  The elevators have 
> Flor tiles.
>  
> In all the linoleum-floored rooms, we could
> definitely use some additional  
> sound management, like acoustic panels on the walls
> and  ceiling.  We designed 
> the kids room pretty well for sound  control - high
> ceilings, direct door to 
> the outside, bathroom  inside, unopenable windows
> facing into the living room 
> so parents can  supervise from outside the room. 
> But the amount of sound 
> leakage still  bothers some folks in the dining
> room, and, as more kids join us the 
> sound  levels are increasing. 
>  
> I also have some experience with cork flooring.  We
> installed a cork  floor 
> in my son's bedroom.  It was cheap because we
> installed it as a  floating floor 
> and did all the labor ourselves in less than a day.
> (My husband  is really 
> good with a chop saw.) The cork is nice looking,
> sound damping, and  easy to 
> clean.  It is also holding up well to a fair amount
> of abuse. And  my favorite -- 
> it is never cold to the touch.
>  
> Jessie Handforth Kome
> Eastern Village Cohousing
> Silver Spring, Maryland
> "Where our third holiday season is upon us and I
> think the decorations may  
> go up without controversy this year!"
>  
>
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