Flooring

Yes, you can install a laminate floor system over existing hardwood floors. Just be sure that the existing hardwood is pretty smooth or the hump in the floor will transfer through. You must use a vapor barrier over your existing hardwood to reduce sound as well as moister transfere between two floor systems. Be sure to let your new floor acclimate to your room temp. for at least 48 hrs. this is especially important if you are installing floor in the winter.

It's simply how their culter teches them to sit.

The Chinese sit in chairs or stools. The stools may be very short making it appear as if they are sitting on the floor. Chairs were reportedly introduced to China around 700 years ago. The Japanese, however, do sit on the floor to eat. They feel that digestion and circulation is better. The Chinese still have lots of customs that they practice and live by, but their culture had nothing to do with sitting on the floor or in a chair. 700 years ago and longer, people were still learning how to make things but first someone had to have a need or want for the idea to be born.

Engineered wood floors are made of a plywood with a layer of solid wood on top. These floors allow wood to go where traditionally it could not like a cement sub floors or a sub grade level of your home.

Engineered wood is sometimes called a remodel floor because it is more often thinner then solid hardwood. This allows a homeowner to more easily transition between floors that are close in height. They can be refinished, although depending on the thickness of the wood top, it may need to be professionally done. These floors are almost always prefinished. You will find engineered wood floors that are glue down, floating, and staple down.

Another benefit of engineered wood is cost. Some more exotic species of wood are very expensive. Engineered woods allow manufactures ways to produce floors in a more budget friendly floor.

Solid hardwood floors have time on their side. The tongue and grove style boards have been used in homes for generations. The live expectancy of the floor is 100 + years with proper care. They allow for much easier repair then a laminate or engineered wood and can be easily refinished my an informed DIY.

In the past, you only saw solid would in floors 3/4" or even thicker. Today though, there are solid wood floors as thin as 3/8" which allow it to go into an area a ticker floor couldn't.

You can find solid wood unfinished if you wish to stain it and polyurethane it yourself or prefinished for quicker installation.

Engineered wood floors are made like plywood. They are made up of several layers, mostly of a less expensive wood. The top layer is made of hardwood.

Solid hardwood floors, on the other hand are solid hardwood the entire thickness.

An engineered wood floor may have only 1/16" or so of hardwood on the surface, where a solid wood floor might be a 1/2" or more.

Engineered wood tends to be more stable - it is less likely to move or warp with changes in humidity or temperature. This is because the different layers of wood have the grain running in different directions. They are a good choice over a cement slab floor, and are frequently installed by being glued down.

$30.00 per yard.

I used 7 x 7 cm thin rubber sheets (about 3 mm thick) under each "foot" of the wasing machine and glued them to the tiles. The washing machine doesn't slide anymore.

Generally foam back carpets are not high quality. You wouldn't want to put them in your heavily trafficed living room. Typically they are used for second bedrooms, a play room, or an area that wouldn't get a lot of traffic. Maybe one you expect to replace the carpet often.

No! Polyurethane needs a porous surface and because pergo is not, you would only ruin the floor.

wood flooring is 100% more sanitary than carpet

Almost all vinyl today is "no wax" vinyl. You never want to apply wax to this type of floor. Check with the manufacture or retailer you purchased it from. In the rare and strange event you have a floor requiring wax, you would use a stripper to remove any residue on the surface.

First of all, assuming you're talking about porcelain or ceramic tile, your tiles are not exactly 12 inches by 12 inches. They're a quarter of an inch smaller, in both directions. Or 11-3/4" x 11-3/4". This is so you can space them a quarter inch apart and still have everything on a square-foot basis. Also, you need to be more precise about the measurements of your room. Is it exactly 15 x 15, down to the sixteenth of an inch? Are you measuring the walls? Or the floor area, not including the width of the trim (baseboards and/or quarter-round). If you laid out a 15 x 15 grid of tiles, with a quarter-inch spacing between them, it would cover an area of 14' 11-3/4" square. Your tile should be overlapped about a quarter inch by the trim, so say 14' 11". If either dimension of your room (not including the width of the trim) is larger than this, you will need to use 16 tiles in that direction. Assuming that both dimensions are smaller than 14' 11", you will need a 15 x 15 - tile layout, for a total of 225 tiles. If one dimension is smaller than that, but the other one is larger, you will need 15 x 16 = 240 tiles. If both dimensions are larger than 14' 11", you need a 16 x 16 grid, for a total of 256 tiles. However, either way, you need to buy around 10% more than what you think you need, because you're going to have problems that result in tiles getting wasted. If you're talking about the cheap linoleum or plastic tile that is meant to be butted right up against each other, then you can assume they are exactly 12 inches, but you still want at least a quarter-inch overlap by the trim, so your cutoff is 14' 11-1/2".

What is the weight of Vinyl Floor tiles per m2

It depends were you want to do this. If you are talking in the corners of the bathroom, round the tub, or where the counter and back splash meet, then yes. But, if you would like to do this in all the grout lines, no.

The area of a rectangle is its Length times its Width. For the question, we first need to make sure that the Length and Width share the same units: Length = 2m Width = 16cm = 0.16m Now we can safely calculate the area: Area = Length x Width = 2 x 0.16 = 0.32 square meters

The number of tiles needed to cover the floor is a function of the size of the tiles

You need 1 1/4" of subfloor. Typically it is 3/4" of plywood or OSB and 1/2" of mudbase or cement board.

If it is really wax the best way is with a commercial wax stripper. Stores like Walmart, Home Depot, or Lowes should sell it. A word of caution, most floors today are "no wax". They can get a build up that can look like old wax. You don't want to use a wax stripper on that type of floor. Armstrong makes a product called "New Beginnings which is a stripper for no wax floors.

Yes it can. You need to take care to not drop hot appliances like irons on one. It is nearly impossible to repair if it does occur.

This depends...Bruce and most solid hardwood 3/4" thick needs a 3/4" expansion joint at the wall. Other types of wood, engineered and floating can vary. Typically it is between 1/4" and 1/2". The install instructions should state.

7.00 sq ft is typical for southern NJ

does birch hardwood scratch easy

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Normaly this is not repaired. Just floor over it.

To clean slate, mix a bit of lemon juice, vinegar, and baking soda and make a paste. Rub the mixture on the slate and then rinse off.

No it shouldn't, but you should still grout your tile.

Bruce makes a great hardwood floor cleaner. It comes in a kit with the mop and cleaner in one. You can buy it at most any home improvement store.