What is the best kind of throw rug to use on vinyl floors?
Question:I am having new vinyl flooring installed in the bathroom and I know that rubber or latex backed rugs can stain the floor yellow. Any suggestions? Thanks!
Answers:
Have you considered a foam backed bamboo rug? This won't yellow the floor and it won't slip and slide either. A rug with no backing is NOT a good idea in a bathroom.
As for a rubber backed rug, if you only leave it on the floor when you use it after a shower or bath and keep it on the rim of the tub the rest of the time, it will take years and years and years before the flooring is yellowed... It's leaving it on the floor all the time that yellow the flooring...
Yep, the vinyly/latex backed rugs can stain but a rug without any backing in the bathroom is a bad accident waiting to happen.
You can forgo using a rug at all and just tell your family to put a towel down when they get out of a tub, clean under the rug often with a very dilluted mixture of bleach water or just deal with the stain.
The rug will cover it anyway, huh? *grin*
Congrats on the new flooring!
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