Vinyl flooring or Linoleum? Does it matter?

When shopping around for low cost high durability and easy to install flooring, shoppers will encounter two different types that they may confuse as the same thing. Vinyl flooring and Lionleum flooring. Both kinds of floors are durable, inexpensive, easy to clean, soft on the feet, and available in a variety of colours and patterns. It would be easy to assume that since Vinyl flooring came into fashion in the 1950's replacing Linoleum, that vinyl flooring is simply a higher quality, upgraded version of Linoleum.

Vinyl flooring is popular due to its low cost and ease of installation. It is also extremely resistant to scuff marks, stains, fading, and scratches. This is because it is overlaid with urethane top layer. It's entirely man made and synthetic and up close it looks like a sandwich of different materials. It can replicate the look of other types of flooring and is available in a variety of patterns.

Linoleum flooring is completely made of natural materials. We think of flax seed oil as an immune boosting super food, but it actually provides the base material for linoleum flooring. When its dried out, its mixed with several other natural materials and then solidified on a fibre backing. Although it is durable and easy to clean, some argue that it must be waxed in order to remain looking its best, and that exposure to natural light can result in fading.

Linoleum clearly sounds like the more "green" option, which is why it has been making a come back in recent years. People like the sound of "all natural" materials and assume that it means linoleum is less wasteful, as well as a healthier material to have in the home as it would not emit any dodgy sort of 'toxins'. Yet many do not realize that although Vinyl flooring is manmade, there are less toxins and carbon emissions during the manufacturing process than that of Linoleum. Vinyl flooring is by nature much more resistant to moisture making it less allergenic.

So although Linoleum is all natural, it is necessarily more green than vinyl. What is also little known is that vinyl is often recycled into new vinyl, and due to the incredible durability and longevity of vinyl flooring, is less likely to be replaced as often as linoleum.

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