[Jewelry making - Article 00033] - Re: [Orchid] Studio Flooring Options

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>      Our flooring contractor keeps telling us that vinyl sheet
>     flooring has to be installed over special engineered underlayment
>     and won't hold up. Is this just a way to jack up the bill? 

susannah -

    boy are you intuitive! either a) he does not understand that there
    will not be a herd of  50 customers, 6 adults, 14 kids under the age
    of 11, 5 dogs, & 7 teenagers tromping through it on a daily basis;
    or b) he has no experience in the flooring field so he's just
    winging it at the high end. i go with a) & b). if i were to redo the
    floor in my work room (& right now i am redoing everything else from
    the carpet up!) i would go with a commercial grade carpeting (the
    flat kind that doesn't require padding & looks like fuzzy corduroy)
    & put a 'chair pad' at every work station. a chair pad is one of
    those plastic thingys offices use to let chairs roll around over
    carpet. why? i have them over regular carpeting - one under my
    drafting stool at the work bench so the stool rolls & turns easily
    &, best of all, i hear when something drops (i use a lot of smaller
    stones & melee) & i can tell just where the carpet catches it; in
    front of the soldering station for the odd suicidal piece of hot
    solder that jumps off of the block to land on; under the trim saws &
    the cabmates & the genii. a hard floor all the time will kill your
    feet - (another reason for the large rug in my show booth on
    pavement + on grass at other shows it keeps dropped items from
    getting lost in grass) the pads would probably keep your detritus at
    a minimum since you can vacuum them up from the plastic. well, back
    to the saw, hammer, screw gun, electrical outlets, fume fan, light
    fixtures, dust collector, paint stuff & layout plans - it didn't
    seem to be this time consuming when i drew them up! 

good luck -
ive

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