Help!! engineered wood flooring advice
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Comments (6)The floor looks to be a vinyl or laminate floor with a cork backing. It was IMPROPERLY installed. Any floor installed down there must have a vapour barrier. There is no vapour barrier = improperly installed = no warranty. The insurance company will be able to tell you what type of floor this is and what they will offer as a replacement value. You can then take a payout from them and go shopping for flooring that you want. Remember to deal with the concrete FLATNESS rating. If the previous owner failed to install the floor properly we can assume they FAILED to pay for subfloor preparation. And just for fun, please check to see if the wood framing is sitting on something OTHER than concrete (you want to see metal or plastic underneath the framing). And check with your realtor to find out how long the previous owner is responsible for the home's condition after it was sold. You might be surprised how long they are responsible for FORESEEABLE problems. If they had flooding in the same way, they are responsible for it *IF they did not do enough to prevent it happening again. Just a few tips for you. Talk to your insurance company. That's where you want to start....See MoreNeed advice on direction of engineered wood flooring
Comments (4)As Patricia states. If you have a wooden subfloor then the decision has been made for you. The floor MUST run perpendicular to the joists. Of course you can add another 1/2" of plywood to increase the total thickness of the subfloor (you want it more than 1" thick) so that you can run the wood in any direction you like. Of course you would be adding more headaches than what it is worth. The baseboards would be out of whack. All the doors would have to be rehung. Your transitions to other floors would be VERY high...etc, etc. etc....See MorePlease share advice on engineered wood floor?
Comments (10)Have your wife read her cleaning and yearly maintenance with the HD design work she has to look forward to for the next 25+ years. Nope. Not kidding. Her/your floor maintenance just quadrupled...for the rest of your life in this house. The hardwax oil is known to disappoint people who are NOT ready for The super extra work they MUST put in. The JJ floor is a plank that is wider ($), thicker($), with thicker wear layer ($). It is a UV cured urethane. It is one of the lower grade film finishes...but it is better than hardwax oil. Neither one of these list the option for aluminium oxide (read: super tough) as a finish option. The sales person is mixed up their products (happens all the time...probably a simple mistake...). You Really have to LOVE flooring maintenance to own hardwax oil. Ask her if she wants MORE work....Or LESS work? That's your answer....See MoreHelp! Too many knots in my engineered wood flooring
Comments (6)Don't be devastated. Just don't. You have new floors, and it sounds like the color/tone is right, just too many knots. I personally think color/tone (and of course, choosing the right material and quality that will serve your needs) is way more important to the overall look and feel of your space, than whether your floor has more knots than you wished. This is where you need to work with managing your expectations and seeing the big picture. My advice is to focus on layering in your rugs (plenty of them) and furniture, and coordinating your paint and artwork to create the entire effect. Forget about the knots. Everyone else who sees them will not know you didn't intend them. Truly, decorating regrets are what brought me to these forums in the first place, many years ago: I would obsess about choosing one item of decor in my house, and usually dislike it for a reason that I had never considered when shopping: lessons learned. Money spent on a sofa with an inadvisable color; terrible paint choices; and much more $$ spent that didn't work out as planned. But what I now realize from the excellent designers who give advice in these forums is that the decor and design and feel of a space come from the totality of everything in it. Don't focus on just the one thing you don't like: learn from it, design around it as a professional would, and create a whole effect and feel from everything else you layer in. Does this make sense? Just work with it. You can do it....See Morecarla95rn
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