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We tore out that old nasty carpet and put down a nice light colored wood laminate floor over a concrete slab foundation Related Discussions
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I helped my mom remove flooring from her home she is renovating and I didn’t even think about exposure to asbestos. I pried up old cork floor tiles and they broke while removing. I probably removed a good 10X10 foot area of tile. It had a black tar adhesive under it which i got on [...]
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I helped my mom remove flooring from her home she is renovating and I didn’t even think about exposure to asbestos. I pried up old cork floor tiles and they broke while removing. I probably removed a good 10X10 foot area of tile. It had a black tar adhesive under it which i got on [...]
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Kitchen is currently real tile but we put a laminate wood floor in the adjacent great room/dining room. There is a large height difference betweent these two floors and the tile was not properly installed. I am considering different flooring options that will allow for a minimal height transition… what’s best from a design POV? [...]
I decided I am going to do my whole Condo in Pergo flooring, getting rid of carpet completely, with 2 cats its just a pain. This will be in 2 bedrooms,Hallway,and Living room/dining room. Kitchen and 2 baths have tile. My place all together is about 1100 sq feet, so I’m thinking its probably about [...]
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I am getting ready to remodel bathroom. The bathroom is divided into two areas. There is a door that closes the bathtub and toilet off from the vanity. The area that has the vanity leads into the hallway. Since I will be putting hardwood flooring in the hall way, I was thinking of extending it [...]
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I have to pull up some nasty berber carpet, and I don’t know what is underneath yet. I have 450 square feet to cover and I’m debating whether I should do wood laminate or tile. I have an older home so I think I’d prefer the wood look. How much would someting like that cost? [...]
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While mattress surfing down the stairs with my brother, it hit the hard wood floor and pulled up a piece. it isn’t a full tile but it is more than a small chunk….ideas on fixing it? Related Discussions
To get the maximum ceiling height, I want to keep the my floor covering as thin as possible with the most R-value. I’d like to glue 1 inch T&G pink foam to the floor, then deck that with T&G plywood or OSB. Can I just glue the plywood/OSB down to the foam, then install finish [...]
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Read the full How-To: www.buildipedia.com Ceramic tile is a common choice among flooring materials, especially for kitchen and bathrooms. It is available in so many types, colors, textures and sizes that the design possibilities are literally unlimited. Despite this wide variety of design options, installing a ceramic tile floor typically follows a series of basic [...]
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We are getting ready to have hardwood floors installed and there are two doors where the wood will transition to existing tile. One transition is to a bathroom and the other to a pantry. Unfortunately the tile is 12" square and lies dead center in the doorway where the transition occurs. I need to split/cut [...]
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We have a fairly large "country" kitchen. Right now it has part of it where the table sits in carpet and the rest is linolieum. I want to put tile in the whole kitchen, but my husband thought we’d replace the carpet with wood flooring and the rest with tile. Has anyone done this and [...]
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