I was thinking some transparent filler maybe, and grinding/polishing it down? There’s some varnish on the wood anyway.

    • @Today
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      Linoleum is kind of awesome.

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        Hell no, it looks terrible so quickly. The patterns to make it look like “wood” or whatever are at most a millimeter deep, so enough usage and suddenly you have a worn out blank spot in your giant piece of shit plastic floor.

        It outgasses forever, you’re funding the fossil fuel industry, it looks and feels like shit, and you’ll throw it out in 5-10yrs.

        Tldr, fuck linoleum, it is inferior in all but one metric: water resistance.

        • @[email protected]
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          What? One of linoleum’s benefits is not off gassing and not being made from fossil fuels. Are you thinking of vinyl?

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            I’ve heard & seen vinyl and linoleum used interchangeably over a lifetime, and I don’t believe the original recipe is still manufactured so far as I have seen.

            Even if it is still being manufactured, the vast majority of people talking about linoleum seem to mean vinyl. I’m going with the average vernacular, and still stand by all my original points re: vinyl.

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              36 days ago

              Pretty bizarre if people do this. I’ve never heard it to mean anything but linoleum.

              But a lot of people in the US use the word “turf” to specify not turf (i.e. artificial turf), so there’s no reason for words to mean things.

              • @RubberElectrons
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                Agreed, if linoleum is in fact what was meant I have no issue with it. But even in my own home as a young lad, salesman used “linoleum” repeatedly and they rolled out a huge stinking sheet of vinyl in my kitchen.

                I’ll never forget or forgive how horrible it wound up being.

        • @Today
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          Linoleum and vinyl are not the same thing. It does dent.

          • @RubberElectrons
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            I haven’t seen the original form of linoleum made it installed anywhere on any jobsite I’ve ever worked.

            I realize the term has been co-opted by the plastics industry, but if you’re specifying the original linseed oil recipe from the 1870s, you need to specify that.

            Vinyl and linoleum have been interchangeable terms in modern parlance for several lifetimes at this point.

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              Depends on the country I suppose Vinyl is much softer than linoleum, which is why linoleum is used everywhere in public buildings like schools and hospitals etc. Vinyl is used in your bedroom