Home DIY

Roll or tile? Just put in tiles for a temporary floor. Easy and rather satisfying.

Tiles are easier than a roll, just easier to handle. You need to buy a decent quality adhesive. Preparation of the substrate is the most difficult bit. Usually you'll need a thin screed of self levelling poured over the top of whatever is there, then that needs to be carefully flattened and cleaned very carefully before you start. Any little bits can easily show through the vinyl. Self levelling cement doesn't actually self level all that well in my experience.

Not sure if you will find a roll wide enough to do the whole floor in one and making a join can be quite specialised (basically welding in situ). Tiles would be much easier to lay.

Have you thought about 2pac epoxy like people use for garage floors?

Idk how the cost stacks up, but with multiple angles / corners it seems like and easier application.

Plus just from a logistics pov you've got to get vinyl down into the cellar to lay it. All the cellars I've known don't strike me as easy places to lay it.

I would be tempted to go with cheap LVT. We have used the LG Hausys stuff all through our ground floor, and it is standing up to significant abuse.

@mustardbeak Random, but I've been reading a pistonheads thread on garage floors recently and two types of tiles seem to be consistently recommended - so I thought I'd share.

PVC interlocking tiles like these https://www.ecotileflooring.com/product/e5007/
(main brands are ecotile, duratile, duramat and plasfloor)

And Dotti commercial porcelain tiles like these https://www.directtilewarehouse.com/grey-dotti-commercial-floor-tiles/

I realise you don't need the weight rating required for cars on axle stands but thought the pvc in particular might be worth a look as apparently when not cold they are easy to cut. And for your use shouldn't need to be glued.

Obvs do your own fact checking on what I've said as I'm just passing on shit I've read.