Has anyone used Smartcore Floors from Lowes
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anyone used Quikrete semi-transparent concrete stain from Lowes?
Comments (2)Yes! Last month I cleaned & stained 50 yo concrete slab in my laundry room. The floor was grody & when the loser Maytag Neptune bit the dust I decided to paint the walls & stain the floor. The floor had some stains that were weirdly waxy & difficult to remove. The semi-transparent stain I choose was perfect with my Nantucket Fog (blue/grey) walls. I wanted a waterly effect & ended up (after rolling 2 coats on) heavily slopping the last coat. I got a beautifully swirled pattern with some mottling over old stains. Sealed with the Qwikrete topcoat & it is "da bomb"! I would have had a uniform color with continued rollings but wanted a more abstract pattern given I knew penetration was going to be problematic over some stained areas. Completed project 1.5 days owing mainly to drying. Loved it - it was fun to do & I would do it again if I had more concrete! The new Bosch w/d look great in this room with the double white laundry sink made of fiberglass & crushed stone!...See MoreHas anyone used the new SmartCore Pro vinyl plank flooring?
Comments (55)I have bought and installed $3000.00 worth of smartcore pro 1 year ago in my unheated cabin since it said good for extreme temperatures down to 25 degrees below zero and Lowes said it was the best and only flooring that will work for me. The floor started to seperate in December 2020 at 19 degrees. Lowes said they can not help me and to file a claim with Shaw. Shaw sent an independent inspector to see flooring in March 2021. The so called independant inspector came and pretty much told me that his job is to find things to void the warranty so no claims get paid. He crawled on my floor throughout all rooms with a 6 foot level and found one high spot on my l floor that tilted his level uneven. I told him every house built has a joyce that is a little high or a little low. He agreed and said that he goes through million dollar brand new homes and always finds the same. He measured the space at edges an said some spots were too close to wall. I told him nothing expanded or contracted and its the locking that has failed. He also said the floor molding was touching the floor and that will also void a warranty. I told him there are no houses where the wall molding is not touching the floor and that no one keeps a gap below the molding. He agreed but said even if my floor did have more spacing and wall molding had a gap under it that Shaw would still void my claim since he found a joyce high spot. He left and I never had a returned call since March. I even offered to lift my floor and pay the $1.49 per square foot and to have it reinstalled by anyone of thier choice to prove it was not an installation problem and it is a locking failure problem with the flooring. I am a tipical hard working person that saved for two years to buy the best flooring made for my conditions. Shaw or Lowes have not even called me to offer me a solution or any compensation towards my $3000.00 invested. I do not know if my floor will continue to worsen but I do know it will not get better. I told the inspector that if Shaw really wanted to improve thier product that this was the perfect chance. An unheated cabin that temperatures go down to a couple of degrees below zero in the coldest part of the year. I have 8 rental proerties, a house and 2-cabins that I wanted to do all over with this flooring and now I can not trust Shaw flooring or Shaw customer service to correct the failure. My cousin is a contrator that build homes and works with hundreds of other contracors and said that he will no longer use Shaw flooring after he sees what happened to me. SHAME ON YOU SHAW FOR NOT FIXING YOUR FAILED FLOOR LOCKING PROBLEM. I or my cousin will never buy another Shaw product unless this is fixed by compensation or what I prefer which is to lift and reinstall new flooring by anyone of Shaws choice. The cabin next to me installed a cheap laminate flooring from Pergo at 1/2 the price and it has not failed under the same temperatures. I am out $3000 but you are out hundreds of thousands of dollars when contractors will not trust your products since you chose not to do the right thing.***SHAME ON YOU SHAW FOR NOT FIXING YOUR FAILED FLOOR LOCKING PROBLEM. Tim Sommers Mongomery, Pa. 17752 (570-220-8070)...See MoreFlooring Choice/ Color Issue Within Budget
Comments (61)Yes, I won the honey oak lottery! I have honey oak cabinets, baseboards, trim, doors, and windows. Right now I'm trying to figure out flooring for our bedroom so just dealing with the baseboard/trim, doors, and windows. I don't want to deal with painting everything. I'm considering swapping out baseboards to match the flooring but then I would have mismatched baseboards/trim and that might drive my crazy. (I just posted a question tonight asking folks to show pics of how they handled different baseboards/trims...hoping photos will help me make up my mind on that part.) I haven't started looking at samples a ton in person but am headed to the flooring store tomorrow. Here are screenshots of a few I'm thinking about (ignore the piles, work in process 😄). I can't decide if I should be trying to match the trim as close as I can or pick something that has some markings that match....See MoreHas anyone used Malibu Wide Plank Flooring from Home Depot?
Comments (4)We installed these in part of our house four years ago, then installed in other rooms two years ago. Colors matched perfectly. We have been very happy with the floors. Full disclosure: we are an adult-only household, but my husband tracks in a lot of debris. The floors look like new. We were told that we could refinish the floors once or twice because there is a pretty thick layer of wood. However, the edges are slightly beveled, so im not sure how that would work out. Perhaps spot-refinishing if damaged. I’m pretty picky, but we had issues with subfloors that prevented using solid wood floors....See Morechance cruz
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