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Help: overzealous husband ripped up kitchen floor. Need DIY flooring
Comments (8)So here's the deal. If you want to LEAVE the subfloor as it is (no more cleaning/grinding/scraping) you MUST install a flooting floor. The subfloor appears to be particle board that has cut-back adhesive on it (cutback was often a black colour). What was on the floor in the first place? How old was that product? Some products from the 80's had asbestos in them as well as the adhesive (cutback adhesive from the 80's is famous for having asbestos in it). Don't panic. So long as it is NOT ground down (made friable = airborne) you are fine. But if this is an asbestos containing adhesive you have to either: A) Float a floor over it (vinyl or water proof laminate or engineered hardwood, floating cork, etc) B) Rip out the substrate it is sitting on (the fibre board) and lay new underlayment; or C) Lay new underlayment over top (sandwich the black adhesive between to layers of underlayment) and then apply a permanent floor over top So the decision for you sounds like an easy one: floating floor. Vinyl MUST have flat (all the ripples in the glue will show through). A rigid floor like laminate (spend the money on a water proof laminate like Aquaguard) will be fine to go over top of the remains of the adhesive. Put down an underpad underneath the laminate and you are good to go. And no, vinyl planks do NOT like underpad. They need to go straight down over top of rigid subfloor....See MoreKitchen Floors - hardwood vs Vinyl plank floor vs Other??
Comments (9)I am not a huge fan of vinyl plank flooring. It feels very fad'y. Ten years from now, it'll be the one thing that lets you date when you did the remodel. Having said that, they do have pretty decent designs these days. They come really close to fooling you into thinking it's the real thing. And while some of the hype seems to be just that, they reportedly do stand up to abuse much better than older man-made materials. The nice thing about real hardwood though is that you can relatively easily refinish it. Or you can pick a material that looks great even when it is distressed. Neither one is really an option with vinyl planks. On the whole, I do agree with you though. The much better flooring material in the kitchen is tile. No need to stress if you spill something. And if you install radiant floor heating, it feels really nice on your feet, too. And if you carry if through the rest of the house, you can use area rugs in select locations. But that's going to be more expensive than putting down LVP. So, it's a bit of "you get what you pay for". On the other hand, if you plan on living in the house for the long run, it might make sense to do things right once, rather than replacing the cheaper flooring every couple of years....See MoreKitchen flooring, how to match with living room floor.
Comments (9)The wood tones look good with crisp white (more on the blue side). Gold/orange likes to sit next to white, either crisp or cream (yellow based). But it does NOT like to sit next to gray. It takes a VERY special designer (ahem...the one that none of us can afford) to get golden wood to work with muddy grays. I would go WHITER with the floors than what you are showing. Your cabinet choice is showing BLUE-gray. That's fine. One of the PRETTIEST floors you can put next to 'wood tones' = blue slate! I kid you not. As you've noticed you can go DARK blue or you can go WHITE-blue. Notice the 'blue' in both? Yep. Cause blue helps 'set up' the gold tones and the gold tones help set up the blue tones. They make each other pop. I would stay away from the gray and stick with white or super dark blue....See Morekitchen flooring when the rest of your house is hardwood floor
Comments (8)We have Marmoleum in a house with 105-year-old wood floors and white and gray cabinets. There is no way modern wood flooring would match our old wood and we wanted to keep the kitchen relatively period-appropriate, so opted not to even try to match the original floors (and also had a large dog at the time). I don't love the Marmo (we have Click and it shows a lot of wear; our neighbors have had better luck with sheet Marmoleum that's now about 20 years old) but if/when we replace it, it will likely be with a similar alternative or maybe with tile. We do have a Douglas fir subfloor in the kitchen that we could refinish, but just felt it wasn't a great plan to have such a soft wood (or really wood at all!) with pets and kids....See More
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