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.
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
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Thank you for your help. We have decided to go ahead and lay a new wood floor on top of it.
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
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Thank you so very much!! I don't feel quite so dismayed about the task ahead!!
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
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It is confusing. There are so many different materials in new surfaces the way we use to clean ...»
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
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Thanks, Cheryl. Thanks for all of your "quality control" tests....that will save us the time ...»
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
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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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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
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Thank you for all the advice... back to the flooring store I go. At least now I have some ...»
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
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Hey check out my profile and post - we just tiled my fireplace in pennies (back and floor) and ...»
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
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Painting: I want to paint my ugly tile floor.
It is a ceramic tile that has a "brick" look to it. Ripping it up is just not in the budget right now, so I'm wondering if I could paint it to give it a "whitewashed" look. See my
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can't u apply stain like substance and just change the color like black and white in one room ...»