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Flooring

Flooring

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What could be better than getting the flooring right in your own house? Well, having the Hometalk community celebrate your flooring success. Post photos of your updated floors for everyone to love, or ask questions about the best type of flooring materials. Whether you have tiled floors in your kitchen, or hardwood flooring in your living room, there are DIYers and professionals who have worked with flooring like yours, and can give you advice based on their flooring experiences. Every day is a great day to Hometalk about flooring.



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Vinyl Tile Flooring Install

I want to show you how easy it is to install vinyl tile yourself. Unlike laminate, or hard wood, you won't need a lot of special tools, or a ton of time. It took Joseph and I about 7 ...»
hours to install the tiles from start to finish, which isn't bad, considering the bathroom also contains a laundry section.

Prep Work:1. Rip out previous flooring and scrub free of debris.2. Draw a grid on the floor with a pencil.

Install:3. Measure and cut tile according to each size space on the grid.4. Apply glue with a spreading tool.5. Peel off the back of each tile and stick.

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Kalynbrooke Fort Myers, FL 3 days ago
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  • A close up of the finished floor, it almost looks like old leather. 15
  • I did the whole 10 X 12 room for about $80, but any future room will cost about $30. That's cheap flooring! 11
  • Gluing the paper down using a 50% Elmers glue %50 water mixture. This part took forever. 10
  • Here is the paper going on, this is about 10 hours in (spread over multiple days). 6
  • Mopping on the stain. 6
  • After 12 coats of poly! I know people say this all the time, but it honestly look much better in real life. It just looks shiny in the pictures. 8
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Paper Bag Floors

If you are in need of new flooring but don't have much money to spend (or even if you do) then this fits the bill! I created this floor out of brown paper, Elmers glue, stain and ...»
polyurethane. It was easy to do (albeit time consuming) and is very durable. This room is 10 X 12 and cost about $80, but future rooms will cost about $30 since I have plenty of leftover supplies. Click through to read the tutorial....http://www.domesticimperfection.com/2013/03/paper-bag-floors-a-tutorial/

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Ashley @ Domestic Imperfe... San Antonio, TX on Mar 13, 2013
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    Lory 2 days ago
    I did this same technique on my powder room walls and painted it red. It turned out great!
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Bamboo Stair

Bamboo stair is milled from bamboo lumber, actually called bamboo plywood in US, pressed from layers of bamboo strips. Bamboo lumber after pressing will stay in kiln dry room for 2 weeks ...»
to balance the moisture. Then we sand the lumber and get it milled with special machines.

Bamboo stairs can be produced in horizontal, vertical and strand woven. The color can be natural, caramel and tiger. There are some options with bamboo. Dimension can be customized. Bamboo stairs can be stained into colors, like oak, maple, cherry to match your hardwood flooring in the house. They are natural, beautiful and elegant and made of green material - bamboo.

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Bob ban China 4 days ago
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Art Parquet Flooring

Genuine Wooden Art Parquet Flooring

Genuine compound wooden art parquet floorings, archaized genuine wooden art parquet ...»

floorings and genuine wooden art parquet floorings

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450mmx450mmx15/2/3/4mm

500mmx500mmxx15/2/3/4mm

600mmx600mmx15/2/3/4mm

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  • This is the first time we saw the house, and the after with the painted floor.  We have since replaced the door.

Painted Concrete Floor

I ripped out an old wheelchair ramp and made our mudroom a welcoming place to enter. I used two different colors of paint to make a diamond pattern on the floor. More details (including ...»
how I prepped the concrete) are on my blog.

Also - this is my first post on Hometalk - so if I am doing it wrong...sorry! :)

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Rebekah @ Country Mouse T... Etters, PA on May 14, 2013
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    Hi Doris! I did use a degreaser/etcher on the concrete before I painted it. It all depends on ...»
    how your concrete has been treated in the past (seal, stained, etc).

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Antique Salvaged Windows Get a New Lease on Life...

How do you add charm to a new build??? Incorporate salvaged architectural elements!

We added antique windows into our backyard, cobblestone pathways were also on our to do ...»

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Cynthia Weber @ A Button ... Canada on May 17, 2013
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    Jeanette Country Design S... 7 days ago
    Love it! The cobblestone path fits in perfectly. Love the four legged helper!
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Painted Floors. Would You Do Them?

I've painted vinyl flooring in our former home. We're considering painting over hardwood. Have a peek and see what you think. http://cndesigns.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/pa...
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Connie Nikiforoff Designs Mandan, ND on Mar 18, 2013
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    Debra on May 17, 2013
    Hi Connie, just went to your website and it said it is no longer available. Do you have ...»
    another site for further info please.

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doors before floors?

apparently so......I learned this today the hard way. Got laminate floors installed in July, and THEN decided I wanted new interior doors. I love my doors, which were installed today, ...»
BUT, since the floors were installed first, I now have a gap or two where the new frame doesn't cover the flooring. I am posting this for someone questioning which order to do this in. The funny thing is, my coworker and I just had this discussion this summer because she was doing both at the same time.

I now have to call back the flooring installer and hope he can do something for me that doesn't involve pulling up the floor and recutting. (which will not happen as far as I am concerned.) I did go purchase a new threshold and something called Pergo Sealant, which I may have to resort to to fill the gaps.

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Becky J Troy, IL on Nov 16, 2012
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    Jude on May 15, 2013
    It's a simple fix - we here have skirting boards -- so you either pull them off and take the ...»
    floor to the wall then replace them or you add some beading to the gap to stop it being a gap - obviously things in the UK are very different than in the US.

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How To Refinish a Commercial Tile Floor to Look Like New

First we color sealed the grout line to make them all look uniform, with our standard color gray. After we were done sealing the grout lines, we then applied our Enhancer Seal to brighten the look of the tile and make the floor look brand new!

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Grout Shield Bay Shore, NY on May 14, 2013
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    Grout Shield on May 14, 2013
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    We used an alkaline based cleaner with a black polish pad and scrubbed the grout with a grout brush. After you simply apply Grout Shield's Color Sealant and Enhancer Seal.

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Color Seal Your Tile Floor

You can color seal your excising tile floor for $29.95.
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