Office floor suggestions
 

I'm thinking about things I want to get done before spring , and my office floor is on the list .
Not a huge area. less than 500 sq feet. Vynil plank is high on my list. I think the biggest issue is my dirty ,work boots, I need something that is durable easily cleanable, and resistant to solvents .
I got 13 years from Linoleum before I tore through under my office chair . No real moisture issues, , and it is not on a slab. It has a really level good solid subfloor underneath . I built my office over the old oil change pit
Is there a commercial product I should be looking at ?

Thanks

The designer on our project specified Mohawk LVT. Specifically Large&Local. Nice looking stuff.

Was on the pricier end. A room about 1the size of your office was $1500 premium over standard vinyl tile.

The LVT that I have seen scratches real easily- get a sample piece of whatever you are thinking of and give it heck first.

Skip the big box stores because they won’t offer commercial grade. You need to go to a floor dealer.

I got some samples delivered from for Mannington and Lucida brands. Both seemed to have pretty good specs (thickness, scratch resistance, etc...)

I scratched and the Mannington and Lucida that we got with some tools that had sharp machined corners. Most would scratch a bit, but then the scratches mostly wiped away. Then I beat on them with a hammer using the edge of the face instead of the flat. The Lucida stood up to the hammer better. I then put them on a thick cushioned shaggy carpet and beat the snot out of them with the hammer (kind of like when the mythbusters blew stuff up at the end just because they could). Both caved under the pressure (as expected).

What I noticed between the Mannington and Lucida is that the top scratch resistant layer of the Mannington under the worst abuse would separate from the lower layer. The Lucida layers stayed stuck to each other (but the abuse that it took to do that was pretty extreme). I would probably have gone with the Lucida, but the wife preferred the pattern that we were able to get on the Mannington. Don't drop a cast iron head or starter on the floor and you'll be fine.

One test that I was able to replicate was the scratch it with a quarter test, and in that test, the floor wears a quarter down like it was being run over sand paper.

Gregpark likes and recommended IVC to me in another thread.

Next best thing I can recommend is putting roller blade wheels on your office chair once the flooring is done.
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They roll a lot easier than those twin plastic wheel casters do.

I've seen those, and think that they are a great idea. I want an old style wooden office chair, but then I want to update it with wheels like that.

I updated my new office chair with them.
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What a great idea.

I've put them on all of my wife's chairs that she uses in the family room for her sewing. Really is nice on the floors and they're quiet too. I got the smaller size so the overall height of the chair didn't change that much.

I can’t help you on the flooring, Fred, but those wheels on the chair are amazing. When I get up from my chair, it rolls back 5 or 6 feet now. I’m constantly having to bring it back to my desk. 😂

Good skills Scott.

The 18 year old boy trapped in the body or a 63 year old bloke wants to see how fast he can go down a steep street near my house with those wheels on my chair.

If you do that, make sure there's video of the carnage.

Fred - over the oil change pit?

No flooring suggestions, but you have gotta have a trap door installed!!

This is a great idea. The plastic wheels are also a bit rough on the vinyl plank. See, it is stuff like this that makes me keep coming here.

This is NuCore. It was just installed when I had my basement finished, this is my office floor actually. It's pretty indestructible. I dropped a hammer on it, painters got paint on it, movers tried to scratch it.

I did see those wheels at Lowes tonight, so I'll grab a set tomorrow, thanks for posting that.

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My office has ceramic tile. The warehouse just plain concrete.

Where do you get office chair casters that fit rollerblade wheels?

Buy them already made https://theofficeoasis.com/products/rollerblade-office-chair-wheels?variant=31153418764342&?gclid=Cj0KCQiAuP-OBhDqARIsAD4XHpf-XdwPb2mJWW-lAQhfGGM1O_rxms97dRNwgcKifLt4T_iFnFx4uiYaAptFEALw_ wcB

Yep, there are places that make them plug and play. I had an ad pop up on faceplant months ago with some company that was selling them and thought "smooth, quiet, and more gently on floors, genious."

My local Lowes has them, they just slipped in.