It depends upon what you are trying to adhere to them. I used them with 2D dungeon/cavern layouts, printed on regular copy paper, with a color laser printer. I adhered the paper to the glue side of the tiles, then I cut them into shape. They've been in storage for many years now, without issue, other than the vinyl has warped -- I flex them the opposite way, and they lie flat. They proved to be quite heavy, though, as I need sooo many pieces for a large dungeon layout…
I used them for miniatures' bases, for a while. I discovered that the PVA Glue I brushed on top, before swirling them in colored sand mixtures, caused the bases to warp, severely, after six months, or so. I ended up replacing most of the vinyl tile bases (figures and terrain pieces) with MDF boards.
I made a 3D square castle tower and a wall section using vinyl floor tiles, but I found they warped severely, over time. I salvaged my test sample constructs by Hot Gluing square wooden dowels inside of them, to hold them in position, preventing severe warping.
Here is a link to my blog page, discussing many of my vinyl tile projects.
Back when I was experimenting with peel-n-stick vinyl floor tiles, it was on sale for $0.39 USD per square foot tile. It is difficult to find plain, thin, inexpensive floor tiles like those, anymore. I pretty much use MDF as a replacement material for the vinyl floor tiles now: much more durable, typically laser-cut pieces are ordered either from Amazon, or off of Etsy (custom cut sizes and patterns can be had). Cheers!
reports from OrcCon 2008.
