Floor discoloring?

Swapping the clear and opaque windows in my door has been on my "to-do" list for a while, maybe this Winter as a project. Short of that, do you leave your Velcro shade on the lower window? As for mats, I find that they get so dirty that I leave them at the outside of the door.

I have a plastic scraper mat zip tied to my outer step to scrape of my shoes before entering the tc. The mats shake out fairly well and go right into the washing machine when we get home. I have had them on 10 day trips and if one gets ugly I just flip it over to the clean side.

Buzzcut1 wrote:
I have been using fluffy all cotton bath mats, the ones that you step out of the shower onto, and have had no discoloration issues in 4 years of use so that may be an option.

Don't you find they catch a lot of dirt and things from outside? I would think they would be hard to shake out.

LynnandCarol wrote:
I use a small rubber backed rug in my bathroom all the time. Been years and no change in color.

Yes, but the floor in the bath is different and probably no sun

I use a small rubber backed rug in my bathroom all the time. Been years and no change in color.

I have been using fluffy all cotton bath mats, the ones that you step out of the shower onto, and have had no discoloration issues in 4 years of use so that may be an option.

Ahaaa-ha thats the reason. The carpet we were using was not rubber back. It was cut to size in 1 peice very thin cheap stuff from HD that I used for the headliner on my Polaris. It was easy to just pull out and shake clean then with it's memory it fell right into place. If you can't even use that and rubber back is worse, what can you use?

After reading that artical they say rubberback but also heat if I read correctly. As I said the rug we used was not rubberback so I would assume it's just as much a heat problem. It's worse at the door where the little lower window is and farther in it gets better.

I once read an article by a flooring company that said that vinyl needs oxygen to be the proper color. Putting a rug down blocks oxygen. Remove the rug and the color returns to normal gradually (months). Bleach also removes oxygen. Explained why my countertop had a yellow area under the tissue box that got worse when I tried to bleach it. Left it alone (no box) and it gradually turned to normal.

I was floored when I read the article. Ours has yellowed under the rug with no sunlight, just as the article suggests, and it's getting worse. Now I know why, what a drag, I feel as though the rug was pulled from under my feet. I doubt there are inexpensive little rubber-backed runners out there that won't yellow the floor. Anything but rubber will slip on the vinyl.

I've been told that using rubber-backed throw rugs can mess up the vinyl. We made sure to use cloth-only rugs in our camper and at home. This article suggests it's the heat build-up which would be worse with more sun exposure.

http://articles.philly.com/2010-12-31/news/26356488_1_vinyl-floor-mat-rugs