Showing posts with label Floating flooring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Floating flooring. Show all posts

Thursday, August 20, 2015

OUR NEW FLOOR





We has a large old farmhouse in Kentucky, and when we moved back to Maine we wanted to pare down.  We bought a small post and beam camp in the rural western Maine mountains.  

The camp was sitting on two huge spruce logs directly on the ground.  We had the house jacked up and a concrete pad with a two foot crawl space poured. 



There was an 8x14 porch on the back of the house and because porch weather is short in Maine we closed it in to add an additional room.   Part of the room I patrician for an extra closet for my wife.  We laid linoleum on the floor as the room makes an ideal entrance during snowy weather.   Now fifteen years later we were tired of looking at the linoleum pattern and decided on a new floor. 

We wanted something that looked good, something that was water resistant – and though we preferred real wood that wouldn’t work well when snow comes.  

We settled on allure Resilient floating flooring in a wood grain, which is water resistant and guaranteed for 25 years.  







The floor took me one day to lay and my wife and I are pleased with the results.   Winter will be the proof of the pudding. 

Of course, I knocked down one of the wall sconce lights when I took off the closet doors - so another trip to Home Depot for a new lamp is in order.

SNAFU
the Ol'Buzzard

Tuesday, August 18, 2015

DIY AND ME






“Vern, Vern, Vern when will you learn?”

Years ago I closed in a porch on the back of our house to make a mud room (porches are like swimming pools in western Maine – can only be used a short time.)    We had linoleum on the floor and both my wife and I were tired of looking at it. 

A visit to Home Depot’s flooring section down in Augusta showed us options.   After bringing home samples and watching videos on YouTube we decided on Allure Resillent Flooring.  This is a vinyl product that comes in board length and width with a wood finish and it carries a 25 year warranty. 



The videos show an ease of installing that looked simple and quick.   Lay down the strips and they glue themselves together.  

A 14x8 room: a piece of cake – a two hour installation – three max.   My wife laughed when I told her that, but what does she know about DYI?

Eight hours later I finished the installation – somewhat.  I still have one more strip to lay in the closet and quarter-round trim to install; but I just flat ran out of steam: I was tired after three hours and exhausted after six: my knees hurt, my legs hurt, my back hurts – easier to list what doesn’t hurt; but hell I am on the down side of seventies – that’s my excuse and I am sticking to it.   

I have got to say the actual installation wasn’t difficult.  Of course I measured twice and cut the first piece wrong.  The time consuming part was cutting the pieces to fit.  The tiring part was working on my hands and knees for eight hours.   

The installation, I must say, looks good.   However, there is a strong smell from either the vinyl or the glue strips – hopefully this will dissipate in a day or so. 

So far, I will say I am pleased with the results.   

The Ol’Buzzard