Vinyl as Kitchen Flooring

[doglover]

We are on a tight budget for a total house renovation and will probably opt for vinyl on the kitchen floor.

Does vinyl go under the units wall-to-wall or just under the cabinet kickboard?

Do any of you have experience of vinyl? Is it tough enough for a busy family kitchen?

TIA

ours goes up to the cabinets not under them (it was laid after the kitchen was fitted) and that is how my parents house always was too.

It seems tough enough, My parents were in their last house for 32 years and if I remember right only ever had 2 kitchen floors in that time (well the first one was put in about 6 months after they moved in) and they were in near perfect condition.

advantage over floor tiles - you can drop things and they don't break because it is a bit softer!

Like Periwinkle says it goes up to the kick boards and skirting boards. We have mid range cushioned wood effect vinyl in two of our rental properties which has been down for 5-6 years and still looks good. As you can imagine it doesn't get treated well in rentals so I am quite surprised how good it looks.
It is warmer under foot too unlike the porcelain tiles in my own kitchen lol

We have vinyl and it's perfectly fine...in fact we also have vinyl in the bathroom and utility room (I don't get this anti-vinyl thing though?)

Much better than tiles.

Yup its warmer more hard wearing. Mine goes up to the cupboards.

We've had vinyl in our kitchen and bathroom for the last few years and it's great! Easy to keep clean and not cold. It seems hard wearing and was inexpensive. I'd definitely go for it again

im looking at sheet vinyl too, does anyone know if it compacts down in the areas you mostly walk on but stay spongier and plumper at the sides, a bit like carpet?

Mine hasn't cant say that for all types

Is there much difference between vinyl and laminate?

laminate isn't meant to be recommended for kitchens and bathrooms on account of the water spillage type stuff as I remember.

We have just put sheet vinyl in our new kitchen, we have had laminate in the past and I hated the paranoia of thinking you may have missed a drop of water that could ruin the floor.

We have an american fridge freezer and the ice crusher sometimes spits ice chips over the top of the glass onto the floor and the children don't notice these things.

Think our vinyl was £20psm and is cushioned. We love it, easy to sweep and mop.

Laminate sounds tipity tapity that alone puts me off.

I always get comments on my "tiled floor" - I love vinyl. I originally ordered from one of the very large rolls at our local carpet showroom (think £8/£10 per meter). But changed my mind to one of the Rhino styles as it was slightly thicker but more expensive at £26 per meter.

However, it worked out the roughly the same price as the roll. Reason being the rolls dimension was set but I was able to order to the exact size of my kitchen with the Rhino. Hope that makes sense.