Vinyl Flooring Options and Ideas

Vinyl Flooring Guide

Vinyl Floor Tiles, Planks and Sheets Blogs, Videos and Testimonials








Many types of popular flooring are expensive and difficult to maintain, such as hardwood and stone. If you prefer an option that is easy to install and far more versatile without giving up the desirable designs, vinyl flooring is the perfect alternative.

Whether you want vinyl mats that look like stone tiles or commercial-quality planks that resemble wood, Greatmats has all these products and more. Rely on our vinyl flooring buying guide for all the information you need to select the best tiles or rolls for your home, business, dance studio, basketball gym, basement, or garage. Vinyl flooring products deliver beautiful designs without the stress of high prices, difficult installations, and tricky maintenance requirements. (If only more things in life could be like that.)





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Vinyl Floor Tiles, Planks and Sheets Blogs, Videos and Testimonials

Ideas Before You Buy Vinyl Flooring

Tips & considerations for purchasing Vinyl Floors:


The following blogs offer tips on what aspects to look for in vinyl flooring before making a purchase.
Wherever you plan to use this flooring, these are all important things to learn before making your final decision.

  • When wondering what to look for in vinyl flooring, you can count on it to deliver durability, waterproof and water-resistant capabilities, and easy-to-install designs. It’s available in vinyl tiles, click-together planks, rolls, and sheets. Learn More: What Is Vinyl Flooring?
  • Our vinyl flooring buying guide shows that this product is available in formats like luxury vinyl tiles (LVT), luxury vinyl planks (LVP), and sheet vinyl rolls. Learn More: What Are the Different Types of Vinyl Flooring?
  • When you need a style of flooring to use in areas where tracked-in moisture is a problem, vinyl flooring can stand up to water exposure. If you’re wondering what to use to clean vinyl flooring, you can damp mop the material because of its waterproof design. Learn More: Is Vinyl Flooring Waterproof?
  • As temperatures in a building change, the vinyl floors may slightly expand and contract. If you have a floating vinyl tile installation instead of a glue-down installation of a vinyl sheet or roll, any potential expansion will be a little more noticeable. Learn More: Does Vinyl Flooring Expand?

Top 10 Questions About Vinyl Flooring

Below are the most popular questions we've received about vinyl flooring. Click the question to get a detailed answer and explanation on these topics.

  1. What Is LVT (Luxury Vinyl Tile) Flooring? Our luxury vinyl tiles (LVT) are low-maintenance products that work especially well for home and commercial vinyl flooring. They can have a look that simulates hardwood planks or stone tiles.
  2. What Is the Cost of Vinyl Plank Flooring? Vinyl plank flooring is an affordable option, especially compared to the materials it often resembles. It’s common to pay around $3 to $6 per square foot for this type of flooring.
  3. What Is Floating Vinyl Plank Flooring, and What Is the Most Popular Floating Vinyl Flooring? Vinyl plank flooring often consists of tiles or planks that use hidden interlocking edges to create the final layout, which may resemble hardwood or stone. A popular floating vinyl plank flooring is our Max Tile Raised Floor, which has a professional-grade vinyl surface that resembles hardwood.
  4. What Is Sheet Vinyl Flooring Used for? Customers often use sheet vinyl flooring for a durable installation in locations where moisture is common, such as kitchens, bathrooms, laundry facilities, gymnasiums, and basements.
  5. Can You Steam Mop Vinyl Flooring? You should not typically clean vinyl flooring with a steam mop. If you use a steam mop on vinyl plank flooring, this tool may cause separation in the layers that make up the floor, creating swelling and warping damage that ruins it.
  6. What Is the Best Vinyl Wood Flooring? The best vinyl wood flooring products can involve rolls to cover a large space or interlocking planks or tiles for a room at a home or business. You can select from a wide range of faux wood grain stain colors.
  7. What Are the Pros and Cons of Vinyl Plank Flooring? Advantages of vinyl plank floors include the ease of installation, beautiful designs, and a minimal amount of maintenance required. Disadvantages of LVPs include the possibility of dents or gouges from extremely rough treatment or dropped sharp items.
  8. What Is the Ideal Surface for Vinyl Flooring Installation? Vinyl flooring is extremely versatile, meaning you could install it over the top of subflooring like vinyl, concrete, plywood, and wood. As long as the subsurface is firm and level, it should support the vinyl flooring.
  9. What Is the Best Temporary Vinyl Flooring? The best temporary vinyl flooring products will involve rolls that don’t need gluing during installation or interlocking tiles that you can disassemble and put into storage after an event.
  10. What Are the Most Popular Vinyl Flooring Colors? Some of the most popular vinyl floor colors include blacks, grays, and browns. You’ll find these colors in faux wood stain, sandstone, marble, and slate designs. Other solid colors are available, too, like blue or red.


Best Vinyl Flooring Products




Envee Tacky Back LVT Laminate Tiles, 18x18 in


Envee Tacky Back LVT Laminate Tiles, 18x18 in

Our Envee Tacky Back LVT Laminate Tiles feature a high-resolution image of natural stone designs over the top of the vinyl substrate. These tiles closely resemble the real thing, yet they’re far easier to install.





Max Tile Raised Floor Tile, 5/8 Inch x 1x1 Ft.


Max Tile Raised Floor Tiles

One of our most durable vinyl flooring products is the Max Tile Raised Floor Tile. This product uses a hidden interlocking edge that is easy to connect and is not visible in the final layout, so it doesn’t distract from the overall design.





Envee Rigid Core LVP Laminate Planks, 48x7 in


Envee Rigid Core LVP Laminate Planks, 48x7 in

Our Envee Rigid Core LVP Laminate Planks deliver outstanding performance in high-traffic areas. They have a slip-resistant surface, meaning you can use them in locations with moisture, such as near the outdoor entrance at your home or commercial location.





LonPoint Moonwalk Commercial Vinyl Rolls, 6x60 Ft


LonPoint Moonwalk Commercial Vinyl Rolls, 6x60 Ft

In busy foot traffic areas where you don’t want to sacrifice style, our LonPoint Moonwalk Commercial Vinyl Rolls are a popular choice. They have a coin-stamped pattern on the surface that adds to the stylistic design while helping the vinyl roll remain slip resistant.





Athletic Vinyl Padded Roll, 7 mm x 6x30 Ft.


Athletic Vinyl Padded Roll, 7 mm x 6x30 Ft

Our Athletic Vinyl Padded Roll gives you a product that’s perfect for creating a basketball or volleyball court inside a gymnasium. Rather than spending a lot of money on a high-maintenance hardwood floor, our vinyl gym floors deliver a similar look and level of performance at a far lower price per square foot.





Rosco Adagio Marley Roll, 5.25 Ft. Wide


Rosco Adagio Marley Roll, 5.25 Ft. Wide

Our Rosco Adagio Marley Roll of vinyl flooring creates a safe place to practice any kind of dance, including modern, hip hop, ballet, ballroom, jazz, Irish, and more. These vinyl rolls are durable and slip-resistant, allowing dancers to precisely control their movements.





G-Floor Diamond Tread Garage Floor Roll, 1.9 mm x 7.6x17 Ft.


G-Floor Diamond Tread Garage Floor Roll, 1.9 mm x 7.6x17 Ft.

Our G-Floor Diamond Tread Garage Floor Roll can support the weight and movement of motor vehicles. It consists of materials that are resistant to corrosive spills while using a slip-resistant diamond tread surface that allows people to walk across it safely, even if it’s wet.





Vinyl Flooring Customer Installations




St. James Caring Center



St. James Caring Center


When the St. James Caring Center thrift store needed a new flooring solution to cover the old vinyl floor, the center chose our 1x1 ft. raised Max Tiles, which offered an easy, DIY installation they could handle themselves, saving more money for their store's flooring refresh.






Ballet Co. Laboratory



Ballet Co Laboratory


When Ballet Co. Laboratory wanted a safe and stylish marley floor for its students, Greatmats recommended our reversible marley floor that’s perfect for practices and performances. It also offers the ideal level of control slip for ballet performers.



Ballet Vinyl Flooring for Control Slip: Rosco Reversible Dance Floor





School District of Colfax, Wisconsin



Colfax Schools


Because the gymnasium at the School District of Colfax, Wisconsin, is so busy with a variety of non-athletic activities, the administrators needed a durable protective covering to maintain the look of the hardwood. Greatmats’ 32-ounce vinyl cover is easy to install for various events and put into storage afterward.



Hardwood Gym Floor Protective Cover: Gym Floor Cover, 32 oz Vinyl


Vinyl Flooring Installation & Maintenance Videos







Does Vinyl Flooring Scratch?







How to Cut Luxury Vinyl Planks with Saws and Laminate Cutter







How to Uninstall Max Tile Raised Floor Tiles




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