Dewey:
After a couple of pieces you'll be flying through it. You will finish the job in less than three hours. Were talking about a small bath here. The most time consuming part will be the cutting around permanent fixtures, corners etc. This material should be about 3/8" thick so check your transitions to outer flooring. Cut's will be made with a razor knife or tin snips. Go for it!!!!! and good luck. Photo's....Photo's....and more Photo's.

Barry, we picked up the Allure today, finally. Getting my wife out of the house before everyone else is eating their evening dinner is a hassel. We decided on the autum oak flavour. The guy at HD said it is fine and in fact recommended to run it under the commode before putting it back in place but said setting the clawfoot tub on it would cause it to buckle. That kind of confuses me since the toilet will be bolted down and therefor the Allure can't expand / contract, yet the heavy tub setting on it not allowing it to expand / contract will make it buckle? He recommended cutting circles where the claw feet sit and make them about 1/8" larger and fill the void with colour matched caulk.

We got enough to also do the adjoining hallway, which I can do at anytime when SWMBO is at work. I picked up a new wax ring for the commode and hope that the flange will be ok. Looks like I won't be able to tackle it until at least the middle of next week, so say a prayer that all the flange/waste lines are in tack. I'm not looking forward to this job for several reasons, so I need all the prayers and positive thoughts I can get. I might start ripping up the old tile as a few have come loose and I see a couple or more have bad cracks in them, so I'll go back down to the plywood.

Well I got about half the new floor down, hardly a row went by that I didn't have to cut, notch or some kind of alteration to fit obstacles. They said at HD not to set the clawfoot tub on the Allure, but to cut a hole slightly larger than the leg and set the leg into it it and caulk around it w/ colour co-ordinated caulk. Well on the first leg I lucked out. The foot came right at the middle of the adhesive strip on the end so I notched that and slid it up to the tub leg using wax paper to keep it from bonding as it went into place, then holding it firmly against the previous piece I installed I slid the paper out a couple inches at a time and bonded it together as I went. Then from the back side I made a notch in the overlap, then cut that piece to length, then measured best I could where the next leg would set. I marked that area and cut it out with the Fein. 

The problem then was to get the tub up enough to slide it into place but after messing with blocks of wood under the tub which proved futile, I went back to the wax paper. Laid it over the glue strip, put the new piece on top of the one it was going to abut, put
a strip of wood up against the length of the new piece, and a short block of 2 X 6 against that. This brought it out far enough I could nudge it into place using my foot as I lifted the tub (non drain end) enough to clear the plank. A couple of tries and I had the leg sitting perfectly in the hole I made with the Fein. Then I just slid the 2 pieces together as tightly as I could, and an inch or two at a time slid the wax paper out pressing it down as I went. Voila! Now the drain end is going to be another story but I'll deal with that when I get there, hopefully tomorrow. 

You would not believe the pain my soulders were in reaching under that tub to adhere the pieces together. To tell someone who's arms and shoulders are in good shape what I had to do would make me sound like a bit of a sissy, but trust me, there is only a small limit of movement once you sever your rotator cuffs, that your arm will move w/o pain,  and it's pretty darn minimal.

So, with that done, I took up as much tile as I dared, covered all the glue strips with wax paper for the night to prevent lint or anything else from getting on them, and packed it up for the night. Tomorrow after my wife has her nap and does her dialysis thing, I'll Have her help me pull the toilet out of there, clean up the floor, which so far looks good other than being damp near the bowl, dry it out best I can and then take out whats left of the old wax ring, lay the new flooring to cover that area, reset the pot and hope for the best. 

I must remember to have S pick up some silicone caulk for around the bowl / floor contact points before she comes home. I probabl have some on hand but knowing my luck I'd get half way around and find it has a big air bubble in the tube and it's almost empty.

I'll post some pics in a few days, I hope!