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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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Flooring: looking for a company or person who can sand my heart pine floors

my heart pine floors need to be sanded for the second time in 15 years.
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Vicki R Atlanta, GA on Apr 13, 2013
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Flooring: Can a paper bag floor go over an existing floor?

When creating a brown paper bag floor, does a tile floor need to be removed?
Carolina1st
Carolina1st Cleveland, OH on Mar 15, 2013
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Flooring: Bathroom flooring

As most of you know, we are building a house and you have helped me through many decisions. I am working on flooring for master and guest bath. Let me tell you up front that I HATE grout ...»
and anything to do with it so that has put me in vinyl land. I just wanted to know if anyone has any advice when looking at vinyl flooring what to watch out for or stay away from.

Lori Gay
Lori Gay Rochester, NH on Apr 05, 2013
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    Lori Gay on Apr 07, 2013
    Thank you for all the advice... back to the flooring store I go. At least now I have some ...»
    options to think about. Stay tuned for the final result. :)

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Flooring: Can I use drywall fiberglass mesh to lay pennies on it, as a mosaic, so I don't have to sit on the floor.

This will be for my kitchen floor. I thought maybe I can cut the mesh each in a sq. foot, then lay the pennies on it, then lay it on my cement backer board with thin set. then grout it ...»
and and seal it. Since I have 250 sq ft to do, I think the drywall mesh will be the least costly. Any comments will help. thank you

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Michelle I Marshallville, GA on Apr 15, 2012
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    Cody Royster on Apr 02, 2013
    Hey check out my profile and post - we just tiled my fireplace in pennies (back and floor) and ...»
    used a product called Bondera from our local Lowe's It was great to use and allowed us to either cut and layout pennies or do directly on the fireplace!

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Flooring: How to you lay wood floors

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Ronnie Lithia Springs, GA on Mar 30, 2011
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: Is it a good Idea to place foam beneath laminate wood flooring?

I heard this can improve sound insulation in large/open houses.
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Tori Duluth, GA on Mar 30, 2011
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Strip concrete porch floor, then what?

We have a concrete porch floor, and we just can't seem to get paint to stick to it for more than about a year. I'm sure we probably don't sand it well enough or something, but I am just ...»
over it. If we fully removed all the paint, would we need to do anything to treat the concrete? I don't want it to stain or look bad. Any other suggestions?

Tanya
Tanya Powhatan, VA on Mar 31, 2013
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    Jeanette S on Apr 01, 2013
    Keep in mind that the man made materials fade less than natural fibers...and if you buy ...»
    inexpensive ones (cheap) you don't have to worry about mud, dirt, spills, dogs, etc.

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Flooring: I have a white tile on my kitchen floor, will a garage floor finish work to cover it.

I absolutely hate in and it's impossible to keep clean, Most of the replacements I've considered involve taking the tile up. I'm looking for something that will cover the existing ...»
surface, provide some color, be easy to clean and inexpensive. Tall order I know

Karen Griffin
Karen Griffin on Sep 11, 2012
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    Decorative Concrete Solut... on Apr 01, 2013
    The problem is that tile is very hard and you'll have an extremely difficult time getting ...»
    anything to stick to it without proper preparation such as what Its Really Concrete, Inc

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Painting: Painting wooden floors

Our Douglas Fir wooden floors have over the years been oversanded. Some areas are in good & other areas are in really bad shape. Time has come to do something about them. I LOVE the look ...»
of white painted floor boards. Is anyone living with white painted floor boards & how has it been from a maintainance and cleaning point of view?

Marina Muhlberg
Marina Muhlberg South Africa on Mar 30, 2013
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    Marina Muhlberg on Apr 01, 2013
    Hi Jeanette; thank you for your imput. It is an option worth considering, although I am ...»
    concerned that it may darken our home too much .. Will put into the the ideas box though. I am not rushing into any decisions at the moment until I have throughly considered all options open to me. Is SUCH a big decision to make!

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Flooring: Prefab handscraped hardwood floors vs. actual handscraped hardwoof floors -

does anyone have any experience with this? We are debating on putting down the wood floore that is handscrpated and finished in the factor and shipped in planks vs. the floors being ...»
handscraped at out home. The process is the same minus the handscraping and fnish.

Marie Sanderson
Marie Sanderson The Colony, TX on Mar 22, 2013
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    Marie Sanderson on Mar 25, 2013
    Thank you for your replies. Very helpful information.
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