Linonium flooring - do you have it and whats underneath it?

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It seems since days gone by this has come on somewhat - do you have it and if so do you have anything under it or is it straight on your bare floor so eg upstairs in a bathroom is it on floorboards and if so can you see the joisty bits of the grooves of the floorboards now it has settled.. any solutions to share for this? Help please.

i mean linoleum or lino as its known more!

lol or even vinyl - now im lost but you get the jist....

we have it in the conservatory, straight on the concrete. It's fine, and until i told friends, they thought it was a slate tiled floor (hasn't walked on it yet though)

if it's going on floorboardss they'll lay hardboard down for a smooth surface.

this won't take out any big lumps/bumps or uneven areas in the flooring though, so if you want it to be perfectly smooth you would have to get someone to sort the floorboards out first, then lay hardboard, then the lino

Underlay in a dry area, cement sheet or plywood sheet in bathroom. Only solution would be to take lino up, sort out sheet or underlay and put lino back.

we have variations of this in various bathrooms it is great, lloks fab, is hard wearing and is not freezing under foot.
We chose this instead of stone tiles as we had no intention of going down the underfloor heating route.

thankyou for all your responses - we have had an extension so its for the bathroom as you walk in the first 2 metres are original floorboards then the next 3 metres is big sheets of wooden sheets so im guessing if we put a thin layer of ply down in the old end there would be a slight raise to the new bit but i guess this would be less noticeable than lots of grooves all over the old bit.

So would the fitters do all that then or would we need to? I thought if it was really cushioned perhaps you wouldnt see it? yes i am clueless but want it as cheaper and quicker than other options.

bypowerofgreyskull yes i was looking at armstrong or rhino flooring - is it quite cushioned? what do you have under it?

we got our vinyl from carpet right and the fitters laid the sheets of hardboard down

they didn't do a great job thogh and we've had them back twice to redo little bits.

one problem was that where the floorboards were uneven as we walked on it it had levered a couple of the4 nails up

so if you have the time/money/inclination it may be worth seeing if you have the floorboards evened out as much as possible beforehand

well they are even but obv have grooves between them which is what im concerned willbe visible.

we have an insulating thing underneath it is great.. not bouncy cushioned but definately better than the concrete floor that was underneath.