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jacksmom09
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Do-it yourself flooring
I apologize if this has been posted before!
Does anyone have any recommendations for reasonable do-it yourself flooring? We've looked at options from Home Depot and Lowe's as well as Ikea.
Any feedback on the above? We are on a limited budget, so trying to keep it at a reasonable cost.
TIA!!
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ElizaRags35
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Do-it yourself flooring
Trafficmaster vinyl from HD. We have it in our bedroom and DD's room. DH installed it in both rooms with a couple of friends in only a few hours.
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DWKS810
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Re: Do-it yourself flooring
We used lumber liquidators in the past and I actually just got a mailer advertising a sale this week
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| Posted 5/19/14 11:27 PM |
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2boys4me
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Re: Do-it yourself flooring
I spent $70 on the kitchen floor and it looks amazing. I had Home Depot cut a 4x8 sheet of underlayment into 6 inch planks. DH nailed them down right over the disgusting vinyl floor that was there. He used a penny to space them and he staggered them. When he was done I stained them. It looks like they've always been here in our 1880's home. They were put in in August and they are still perfect and I have two toddlers and two cats and if anything ever happens to one of the planks I like that I can pop it out and replace it. Underlayment is very thin so I'm not sure how it will hold up long term although like I said, ours is great still. The stain and poly really help with the spills. We rent so we didn't want to spend a lot of money but the floor was just so unbelievably gross and we got an amazing deal on the rent that it was actually way more cost effective to take this place and put a little bit of money into it to make it not nasty then it would be to rent anywhere else at all lol. I'm very handy so it was a no brainer. I can send you pics if you'd like. You can also use plywood or pine boards which will be much thicker and hold up even better but we weren't ripping out the multiple floors already in the kitchen and the dining room has hardwoods so we needed something very thin to go right over the floors there and stil be even with the dining room floor. It worked perfectly.
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alli3131
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Do-it yourself flooring
I installed my own hardwood. I have also done floating engineered floors. I don't think it's difficult but you have to be ok with saws and the nailer.
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MrsT809
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Re: Do-it yourself flooring
Posted by alli3131
I installed my own hardwood. I have also done floating engineered floors. I don't think it's difficult but you have to be ok with saws and the nailer.
DH installed ours. We scored beautiful prefinished oak at HD or Lowe's on clearance for a crazy cheap price. He'd never done it before but he is comfortable with just about any home improvement project.
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| Posted 5/20/14 7:56 AM |
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jacksmom09
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Re: Do-it yourself flooring
Posted by 2boys4me
I spent $70 on the kitchen floor and it looks amazing. I had Home Depot cut a 4x8 sheet of underlayment into 6 inch planks. DH nailed them down right over the disgusting vinyl floor that was there. He used a penny to space them and he staggered them. When he was done I stained them. It looks like they've always been here in our 1880's home. They were put in in August and they are still perfect and I have two toddlers and two cats and if anything ever happens to one of the planks I like that I can pop it out and replace it. Underlayment is very thin so I'm not sure how it will hold up long term although like I said, ours is great still. The stain and poly really help with the spills. We rent so we didn't want to spend a lot of money but the floor was just so unbelievably gross and we got an amazing deal on the rent that it was actually way more cost effective to take this place and put a little bit of money into it to make it not nasty then it would be to rent anywhere else at all lol. I'm very handy so it was a no brainer. I can send you pics if you'd like. You can also use plywood or pine boards which will be much thicker and hold up even better but we were ripping out the multiple floors already in the kitchen and the dining room has hardwoods so we needed something very thin to go right over the floors there and stil be even with the dining room floor. It worked perfectly.
Thanks so much all! Yes I would love to see pics! We are on a very limited budget but our laundry room carpet is so bad it's shredding at this point. We figured since we are doing laundry room maybe we should do main entry same since they are near each other.
Thanks again!!
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ElizaRags35
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Re: Do-it yourself flooring
This is Trafficmaster vinyl resilient flooring from HD. Looks like hardwood but it's not. Super easy to install (if DH can do it, anyone can). Less than $2/sq. foot and comes in a variety of colors.
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