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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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DIY Projects: Threshold ideas for tile to wood floors

My husband & I are putting a tile floor down in our kitchen, but our dining room has wood flooring. We have priced wood thresholds and they are expensive and our expanse is to long to ...»
get a store bought one. We are not opposed to making one.... Any ideas?

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Cyndi Moore Tippett Rocky Mount, NC on May 17, 2013
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    Cyndi Moore Tippett 7 days ago
    Thank you everyone for the ideas...the pictures were a big help.
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Home Maintenance & Repairs: How do I protect painted floors?

We recently painted over our worn hardwood floors in the house, because we could not effort to have them refinished. We used a good porch and patio floor paint from BEHR, two coats in a walnut brown. It looks very good, however, it is so sensitive to scratches, scuffs and dirt. You see every footprint! If I wipe it with a moist rag, you even see the wipe! (It says its not supposed to get washed until it cures after 4 weeks). Is there anything I can do to protect the floor and make it ...»
less sensitive? Cover It with polyurethane? Or do I need to remove the paint and actually refinish the floor?

Karin W
Karin W Junction City, KS on May 01, 2013
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    Karin W on May 04, 2013
    Thank you for your help. We have decided to go ahead and lay a new wood floor on top of it.
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Cleaning & Organization: How to clean the wax off genuine slate tile floors in kitchen?

I think they have been waxed with floor wax or with something akin to "mop & shine" for many years. I've been wanting to re-tile or lay hardwood over them, until I realized they were ...»
genuine slate tile squares. It's not what I would choose, but I'm going with it anyway. They just look awful and the ridges have built up residue in them. Looks nasty.

Linda Ball
Linda Ball Lanett, AL on May 01, 2013
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    Linda Ball on May 02, 2013
    Thank you so very much!! I don't feel quite so dismayed about the task ahead!!
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Cleaning & Organization: Cleaning hardwood floors

I have tried a Swiffer, a Bona, straight vinegar, orange cleaner, and a steam mop. I always get a residue on my hardwood floors. It is so bad that I'm actually considering Pergo or ...»
carpet! I'm tired of spending my money on products that do not work. Does anyone know definitively what cleans hardwood floors with no residue? I'm desperate!

Tracy Boyle
Tracy Boyle Senoia, GA on Apr 28, 2013
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    Sherrie on May 01, 2013
    It is confusing. There are so many different materials in new surfaces the way we use to clean ...»
    has changed. Because what won't damage one will damage another one. My Mothers new floors are bamboo and they suggest warm water only. She used Bono and they streaked. Even through Bono states you can use them on Bamboo flooring. New windows especially by Pella you can't use alcohol or ammonia it has to be a window cleaner without either of these products in it because it will cause streaking and a film to build up. This is why I am grumpy about home made cleaning solutions. Some of them are very very good, most are damaging to your expensive surfaces. Since I am in the cleaning business and its my-livelihood I am always going to the manufactories specifications to find out how to clean a surface. I keep notebooks for each customer and business we service. I also keep one in my home for my surfaces.

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Flooring: "Select Surfaces" laminate from Sam's Club

Has anyone used the Select Surfaces flooring from Sam's Club? I have read good things on blogs about it, but don't know anyone who has actually used it. We are about to start a ...»
renovation/remodel and need to make a good choice with a frugal budget! Thanks so much!

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Susan Gainesville, GA on Dec 13, 2012
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    Susan on Apr 16, 2013
    Thanks, Cheryl. Thanks for all of your "quality control" tests....that will save us the time ...»
    and effort! As soon as IRS sends us our return we are "ON like Donkey Kong" with Canyon Oak from Sam's. Thanks everyone for your comments. They were very helpful!

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Flooring: floor transition after removing foyer wall

I'm removing a 10' wall in the entrance foyer dividing the dining room to open it up; both floors have the same atypical hardwood I wish to keep (various widths, unique pattern), but will ...»
be impossible to flow through after wall removed (wall was built then floors put down). Has anyone had any experience or ideas on how to handle? One consideration was putting up spindle railing with a walk-through and just put down a threshold, or put a single layer of tile, but thought I'd ask the group. Thanks ahead- Larry

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Larry Cleveland, SC on Apr 16, 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?
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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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Has anyone used Traffic Master Allure Vinyl flooring?

I am considering ordering it from Home Depot to use in kitchen, pantry and laundry rooms. A no wax vinyl is on the floor now but is showing wear. I was thinking of laying the new floor ...»
over the old. There is not a lot of traffic as we are retired (no chldren running in and out). I am also replacing the carpet in the adjoining rooms with hard wood floooring so it would adjoin hardwood at one 14' length. Any advice would be appreciated.

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Linda H Mcdonough, GA on Nov 27, 2011
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    Bernice H on Mar 23, 2013
    Linda H Did you do the Allure ...»
    flooring? I put mine in at KMS Woodworks suggestion, and I am very happy with it. I wish now I had gotten one with a shinier finish, mine is not so shiny, but it is easy to clean, and no clacking like laminate! I am just curious , and thankful to Kevin for steering me this way! We have friends who have laminate and it is not looking so good already. Vicki T I wish I had put it in my dining room..right after we had the floors and carpeting done, I had grandkids over for dinner, the 3 yr old spilled cranberry sauce on his lap then on his knees and the new beige carpeting! I got it off, but now am very leery what I serve when they come over!

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