“The material itself hasn’t really changed, but it now comes with a durable factory finish, so there’s a lot less maintenance,” says Joel Hirshberg, president of Green Building Supply, in Fairfield, Iowa.
Patented by Frederick Walton in 1863, linoleum remains one of the longest-wearing and most versatile flooring materials a homeowner can choose.
When the RMS Titanic set sail in 1912, many of its public spaces featured linoleum flooring, and nearly 100 years later, an expedition to the famed wreck discovered those tiles-still intact.
