Floors from Hell

[Carol Dee]

dont you love how people just lay a floor upon another floor.....grrrrrr

Or shingles over shingles over shingles .... 1st time we wnt to put new shingles on this OLD house we tore off FOUR layers of shingle and the original cedar shakes!
Good luck with the floor @AMKuska , you will love it in the long run.

 

[Carol Dee]

@Nyboy I LOVE the tile in the office. I am so glad we put tile in the kitchen finally! They did not have the color grout I wanted so we used antique white. Big mistake. Somday we are going to have togrind it out and replace with the dove gray I wanted. (And should have waited for) Yep this tile replaces 3 or 4 vinyl floors that replaced carpet (in house when we bought it in 1980.) The vinyl never held up, would curl at seams , tore or scratched way to easy then started to look bad and chip away from the area. UGH. Never again!

 

[Nyboy]

Cheap vinyl floor cause a total gut of my kitchen. i couldn't stand the vinyl floor wanted hard wood. When they ripped up vinyl found dry rot in sub floor, Kitchen cabinets had to came out to get to floor under them. When cabinets came out mold was on drywall that had to be ripped out. Since I had to buy new cabinets and granite counter I went all the way and bought new stove fridge and dishwasher Now I have a very pretty room to make cocktails

 

[Nyboy]

AMK any photos of new livingroom floors ?

 

[ducks4you]

I need MORE pictures, BUT, here is one from the "Bee Saga" at DD's house.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...Q8rpHRyLsZVaC-IDksCfjQxMHucErgPG58MaQ&theater

They bought it November, 2015 unaware that the bees already lived there. FINALLY, we contacted a local certified bee keeper to clean them out. Here is a picture of the wall inside of the 2nd floor bedroom closet (1920's brick home) where they had a hive that started at the ceiling and ended at the floor. The beekeepers told us that they were about to expand downstairs to the wall of the kitchen next.
ANYway, it took a day to sweep the hive out, clean up the wax and cells--Spring, so not much honey--seal up the holes in the masonry where they entered in the First place, with screening and caulking, and they even replaced the plaster hole in the wall with a very good job of drywall repair. DD's have since painted over the closet and you cannot tell at all that they was a repair job.
The two guys both kept bees, one out of Indianapolis, the other, 10 minutes drive from his own house to this job, AND he had lost a hive this winter.
THIS hive was so robust that they had swarmed last year.
Funny, they told us to expect to see a few bees looking to get back in, which would eventually look to join another hive. There was a small swarm trying to get back in, so the bee keepers put a ladder up and swept Them up, too.

 

[ducks4you]

I second NYboy's post. My neighbor installed a laminate floor for their entire house last Feb.. Two weeks later, their dishwasher leaked water onto their kitchen floor while they were shopping for the day. Came home and most of the kitchen laminate floor was all buckled and had to be replaced. Instead of thin plywood as an underlayment ( not recomended ) ... there is a new product ( very new and you may not be able to find it yet where you are at ) called " Mag O " magnesium oxide that comes in 3 x 5 foot sheets, white in color, light weight, very easy to work with and cuts very easily. Is waterproof as well as it will not burn. I used it as an underlayment in our kitchen and layed tile over it.

Local place is advertising "waterproof flooring" and that must be it. I am VERY interested! My 50yo kitchen floor is vinyl. "Linoleum" is a product invented in 1865 and lost popularity in the 1950's bc of limited colors and patterns. However it is great for people with allergies, btw.
https://daily.jstor.org/why-people-once-loved-linoleum/
http://www.picrevise.net/edit.php

 

[aftermidnight]

In 2009 we had all our floors tiled with the exception of the two bedrooms, our tile is similar to what @Nyboy has.

'When I was asked what color of grout I wanted, without blinking an eye I said as close to the color of dirt, best decision I ever made. I would have done the bedrooms too but ran out of money. The floors still look like new and are soooo easy to clean.
Annette

 

[AMKuska]

No photos yet. We have all the stuff from the dining room etc shoveled onto the space that is finished, so it is just a junk heap in there.

 

[Carol Dee]

I need MORE pictures, BUT, here is one from the "Bee Saga" at DD's house.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...Q8rpHRyLsZVaC-IDksCfjQxMHucErgPG58MaQ&theater

They bought it November, 2015 unaware that the bees already lived there. FINALLY, we contacted a local certified bee keeper to clean them out. Here is a picture of the wall inside of the 2nd floor bedroom closet (1920's brick home) where they had a hive that started at the ceiling and ended at the floor. The beekeepers told us that they were about to expand downstairs to the wall of the kitchen next.
ANYway, it took a day to sweep the hive out, clean up the wax and cells--Spring, so not much honey--seal up the holes in the masonry where they entered in the First place, with screening and caulking, and they even replaced the plaster hole in the wall with a very good job of drywall repair. DD's have since painted over the closet and you cannot tell at all that they was a repair job.
The two guys both kept bees, one out of Indianapolis, the other, 10 minutes drive from his own house to this job, AND he had lost a hive this winter.
THIS hive was so robust that they had swarmed last year.
Funny, they told us to expect to see a few bees looking to get back in, which would eventually look to join another hive. There was a small swarm trying to get back in, so the bee keepers put a ladder up and swept Them up, too.

Thanks Ducks for NOT killing the bees. My husband offers to get bees out for people. Now that he is going to retire be will have more time to do that and plans to up the number of hives he has. He loves taking bees out of barns etc and placing them in a new hive. Sometimes they just take foo. Sometimes they stay!

 

[Rhodie Ranch]

We are installing the water resistant vinyl plank flooring in this house. Its the second home we've put it in. If the washer overflows, then we lift up the planks (locking) and let everything dry. Even dragging a washer and then a queen bed frame across it didn't scratch it. We have hardwood in many parts of the house, so we wanted to go over it with this stuff. But we'll be moving yet again next year, so we'll just refinish the HW right before it goes on the market. The dogs tear up the hardwood. Not the vinyl plank flooring tho.