Concrete Floor, in the meantime! Suggestions?
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Susan
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I am preparing all flooring for laminate wood. Room by room, carpet is gone, baseboards removed. In the meantime, since I have to save for the new floor, is their something that I can do to better prep the concrete? Should I patch and sand? Should I seal, heard/read that maybe paint was a good sealer and won't hinder the laminate install? The bare concrete will drive me crazy for the next 6 months. I live in AZ maybe a cool concrete would be the way to go????
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Well before the laminate or vinyl flooring is installed they usually place a material to cushion between the base, in your case concrete, and the new laminate flooring. It gives a nominal cushion to lay the new floor boards. So unless you have large gouges or vastly uneven concrete you probably need to do nothing to prepare it for the finished product....you may want a floor professional to come and just look at your base to give you more info on this.
I think I would go with the concrete in Az, get it polished, stained, acid-stained, or paint it with a fabulous epoxy flooring for glass like finish... https://www.google.com/search?q=epoxy+concrete+floor&client=opera&hs=p1q&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjx76DFwYfVAhUGLmMKHWFNDmcQ7AkIYQ&biw=1366&bih=629
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I would paint or stain it. Some of the acid stains are beautiful and would be much more durable than laminate flooring.
If you are going to be awhile before you put the laminate down, you could paint, or whatever, but I would put down some rugs to cushion in areas that you will be in a lot. I'm sure you will be using some rugs on the floor after the laminate is down, so why not start using them now.