What year/era (approximately) do you think this linoleum is from? (vinyl, flooring)

[Tennesseestorm]

My uncle and aunt purchased a nice 2-story brick house very recently, which was built in 1968. The entire home is all original, even down to the original intercom system. It still has the shag carpeting (some of it is orange, some of its green, etc), colored toilets and bathtubs, paneling, cabinets, etc.

There was a roll of linoleum down stairs in the garage that was rolled up and tied, never used and had clearly been there for many years. There was linoleum in the kitchen, but its not like what was on the roll.

My uncle knows I love the old 60s-70s stuff so he offered me this linoleum because I was removing the carpeting from my basement room and had purchased new linoleum (called something different now, but same concept), but decided to use this. It looks like new since it has been rolled up.

As you can see, I am pretty sure this is from the late 60s or early 70s... anyone else agree or have any suggestions? My dad keeps telling me how ugly it is, but I like this old stuff. LOL.




this pic shows the colors of it a little better....

[Hopes]

I'd say it's original to when the house was built. That's definitely a late 60s, early 70s, linoleum.

[gentlearts]

It is NOT linoleum. It is sheet vinyl from the early 70's. I'm guessing because it is the harvest gold color that was popular then.
Actual linoleum is coming back in style because it is comfortable to stand on, and "green".

[K'ledgeBldr]

Is there any identifiable markings on the reverse side? Like pattern name, number, date, or manufacturer?

Off hand- I'd say late '60's, early '70's sheet vinyl. Armstrong was the leading manufacturer of flooring materials at that time.
A word of caution, it may contain asbestos. Also, it probably doesn't have the resiliency that it use too- so it may tear easily.

[sgresident]

I think early 80's.

[kshe95girl]

def early 70's vinyl, the house I grew up in had the exact same pattern, different colorway, my mom had the flooring installed in '72.

[JimRom]

Early 70's, I recently put a tile floor in a kitchen that had that exact same linoleum, the owners had it put in when they bought the house in 1973. K'Ledge has a good point about the asbestos. In this case, we laid hardi-board and tile on top of the linoleum because the owners were concerned about tearing it out if it had asbestos in it, and their budget was too limited to hire an abatement company.

[Squirl]

I'm in my 60's and had floors like that in my kitchens in the early 70s......vinyl.

[Tennesseestorm]

Thanks for the info on the years. I was thinking early 70s as well.

Asbestos? Wow, we may be taking it back up then. A shame though since it is so old, but still like new since it had been rolled up since it was new. I didnt know it had anything like that in it. Bummer.

Guess we will take this and the left overs to the dump or landfill or wherever we have to take it.

[JimRom]

You can have it tested, usually a local lab will charge less than $50 to test a piece and see if it has asbestos in it.