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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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  • The cabinets are all going to be white here soon.  but this is the floor tile.

Old tile floor...yuck

I have an old home and have been working on updating a lot of areas. Our Kitchen will be one that will require a major overhaul and I'm just doing the make do stuff now until we can get it worked out. BUT I have the ugliest 8 by 8 inch square tile. Any ideas on how to change it without having to remove it? If I remove it and add something else, I will just have to redo it again in a year with the major overhaul.
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Karyn Lisk Gainesville, GA on Jun 10, 2013
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    Karyn Lisk 16 hours ago
    I can definitely give this a try and see if it is bearable!
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  • The completed floor. Wall treatment is a silver foil decorative finish. 4
  • Skylar's Lace stencil from Royal Design Studios.
  • The completed floor. Wall treatment is a silver foil decorative finish. 2
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Goodbye Carpet, Hello Stenciled Floor With Annie Sloan Chalk Paint

We removed our dirty stained carpet and painted the existing concrete sub floor with a stencil and Annie Sloan Chalk Paint. The overall color is Duck Egg Blue. The stencil color is Old ...»
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Bella Tucker Decorative F... Franklin, TN on Jun 04, 2013
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    Restoration House Interio... 23 hours ago
    Loving this DIY job! Well done!
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Staining your concrete patio to look like tile.

I was so pleased with the DIY project on our back patio! I stained the concrete to look like tile. We used painter's tape to create the look of grout lines, and we used a concrete stain from Lowe's to stain the concrete. For a step by step tutorial, just click on the link below.

http://www.beneathmyheart.net/2010/05/new-ti...

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Beneath My Heart Wilmore, KY on May 21, 2012
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    Connie Barber 3 days ago
    we are waiting for our new patio to cure for 28 days. we are doing ours also. thanks for the ...»
    tutorial. very good. love the tape. we were actually going to score ours. not now. thanks to you.

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  • We polished this brand new garage floor.  There were no stains or contaminants on the flooring.
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Can you polish a garage floor? Really?

Well, yes and no. It can be done. Yet not all garages are candidates for these solutions. Its best to start with a new., clean surface.
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Amazing Improvements and ... Marietta, GA on Nov 15, 2012
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    Virginia 4 days ago
    ^ I like this for a basement. Would it even hold up under hot tires?
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Not all garages are created equal...

When you have this much bare concrete, can you imagine how much cleaner it will be with a beautiful epoxy finish?
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Amazing Improvements and ... Marietta, GA on Nov 13, 2012
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    Hot tires take up the paint.
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Heated Floor Tile in a "Snap"

I made this video a few years ago, but thought HomeTalk might find it interesting -- particularly the "floating" porcelain tile floor that requires no mortar for installation. The tile ...»
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Matthew Weber Birmingham, AL on Feb 25, 2013
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    Jennifer- ...»

    The rubber is limited to a grid on the rear of the tile, leaving plenty of surface area for the tile to conduct heat. The system works well together.

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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. 11
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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 ...»
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Ashley @ Domestic Imperfe... San Antonio, TX on Mar 13, 2013
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    Sheryll S 6 days ago
    I love them all. I have yet to see one paper bag floor that was not really nice. I foget where ...»
    I got the idea to cut my bags in retangle strips to do the plank look. I paid $20 for a case, stack or what ever they call the package.... of just grocery bags. I got them from the Save A Lot grocery store. They are 5 cents a bag. I decided I liked that better than the rolls. Like Val Roche mentioned, the rolls have different sides and I did not like that part of it all. I am doing mine on top of really icky, black glue floors that were originally Terrazzzo. I plan to sand mine to make sure I get a good adhesion. Oh yes, you can get a large 12 piece sandpaper at the Dollar Tree (that's a dollar plus tax for 12 pieces). I did not like paying $4 for just four pieces at HD.

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Installing a Single Stair Tread

After laying a new hardwood floor, the last step was to install a single stair tread into the sunken space.

The tread needed to fit in and around the existing new trim that we put up. Handyman used his saw to notch out the tread step. After he got the wood, he used glue to hold it place.

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Laura North Chelmsford, MA 6 days ago
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  • This was taken from the kitchen in which we also installed the planking. 1

@KMS Kevin, Douglas, Steve etc, we put the vinyl planking in , also carpeting.

June 6, out of the blue, hubs says ..we should do the floor and carpet, now! huh? Well who am I to say , but but but...so in overdrive he had a friend agree to come the next Monday ...»
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Bernice H Yakima, WA on Jun 20, 2012
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    Woodbridge Environmental Tiptophouse.com ...»
    yes the history is so plentiful and interesting. Not much history like it out here, because it was mostly settlers and Indians. We were looking at the names of towns and roads etc, many Indian names we don't have here, different tribes altogether. Brought back so many memories.

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Has anyone used Restore?

Hi everyone, I'm going to strip the floor boards of a porch and thought I would prime/paint it until I saw this product. It has a rough texture and claims to last 3x longer than paint. Has anyone used Restore? If so, what are your opinions? Thanks. www.homerepairtutor.com
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Home Repair Tutor Pittsburgh, PA on May 19, 2012
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    Home Repair Tutor on May 26, 2012
    Thanks Andy for the comment. I'm going to try and paint in morning as well. I really ...»
    appreciate all the guidance from the Hometalk community and feel lie this project will turn out good because of all the comments. The first coat will be applied tomorrow if the weather is good :)

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