Rubber

Removal

Getting the old floor, adhesive, and fasteners out without damaging the substrate.

• Removing Rubber Flooring and Rubber Base

  Scraping off rubber tile, sheet and base: blade choice, scoring widths, old adhesive, and the asbestos rules that apply to older resilient floors.

Installation

Layout, cutting, adhesives, seaming, and the install itself.

• Installing Rolled Rubber Flooring

  Relaxing rolls, keeping every roll running the same direction, seam methods, adhesives and rolling for sheet rubber, per Mannington, Tarkett and Roppe.

Finishing

Transitions, wall base, stairs, and edge details.

• Choosing a Rubber Reducer Profile

  Choosing a rubber or vinyl reducer by height difference and floor pair, with the ADA's 1/4 and 1/2 inch rules and CRI's carpet edge rule.

• Measuring and Installing Rubber Stair Treads

  Measuring, scribing, nose filler, adhesive or tape, and rolling rubber stair treads, from Roppe and Johnsonite installation instructions.

• Transition Strips & Thresholds by Height Difference

  How to pick a transition by the height difference between floors, what the ADA allows on accessible routes, and the mistakes that cause trip edges and failed...

• Installing Vinyl Stair Treads and Risers

  Conditioning, scribing, adhesive choices, nose filler and rolling for vinyl and rubber stair treads and risers, based on Roppe's instructions.

• Installing Vinyl and Rubber Wall Base

  Acclimating, gluing, forming corners and rolling vinyl and rubber wall base, with Roppe and Johnsonite specs side by side.

Shop the tools

• Rubber Stair Treads
• Stair Nosing
• Rubber Reducers
• Rubber Wall Base
• Rubber Flooring
• Stair Finishing Tools