r/Flooring

Well… this is a new one for me…… smh
A guest decided to do a burnout and left this behind.

It looks like the tire transferred a ton of black rubber onto the flooring, but I’m not sure yet if it’s just sitting on the surface or if the finish underneath actually got damaged.

I sincerely want to learn something new with this one.

Before I touch it, how would you approach this repair without making the flooring worse….

There is a 1 3/8 inch drop between the tile and the LVP. The LVP is on the original subfloor and the width of the tile and the backboard is 1 3/8 higher

On last piece of lvp what’s the best way to mark the last piece without measuring? If not what do yall do ?
The jam is undercut

Hello good people. I unearthed some asbestos tile at my house last weekend and now need to get down to business covering it back up. Aside from the chipped tiles near the threshold, does it appear flat enough to do LVP directly overtop (after using an encapsulating primer), or do you recommend me leveling the floor with feather finish? I don’t want to do full self leveling compound because the house is so unlevel, I’d have to pour loads of it.

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

I have 5/16” solid wood tongue and groove flooring nailed down, running diagonal in a hall. It’s been fine for years but after an abnormally hot summer it has buckled and lifted where indicated (hard to capture with camera).

Because this area meets two door thresholds there is not an easy solution for creating extra time on for expansion. What are my options here? Not a pro, fairly competent home DIYer.

I’m installing engineered hardwood in my master bedroom (second floor, converted attic space) and am trying to get my subfloor level. It is for the most part, but the middle of the room has a hump I have to lower.

The room used to be carpeted and I found a layer of 1/2” particle board underlayment underneath with a layer of 3/4” subfloor underneath the underlayment. I was hoping the hump was just swelling in the underlayment, but it followed through to the subfloor. After pulling a few subfloor boards, I see the hump exists in the joists where they appear to be sistered at the midpoint of the building.

I’m looking for ideas on the best plan forward. At first I assumed the joists were crowned and that I could plane them down a bit to get them level, but now I’m wondering if it would be easier (and more stable) to try sanding down the subfloor boards instead. Any ideas?

Can anyone help me figure out where I can match this grouted vinyl tile? I was floored (pun intended) when our contractor pulled up a piece and it’s not actual tile. I did not know grouted vinyl tile existed until today. When I reverse image search + 12x24 tile , it gives me porcelain tile options. I live in the upper Midwest so it could have come from Menards, Lowe’s or Home Depot.

Recently ripped up some old carpet in my basement office to find that the entire concrete floor was covered in glue holding the carpet down. I was expecting tack strips and maybe a few spots here and there but I'm not so lucky.

We're planning on putting lvp flooring in after we patch up and level out the concrete with some self leveling compound. My wife and I already scraped the top layers but I think this is going to need something more to expose bare concrete to make sure we have everything bonded well.

The picture is where it's currently at. Do I go for some type of solvent to get the glue up before grinding or just rent a concrete grinder from home Depot since that's where it's probably headed anyway?

If I get a solvent for the glue what do you all recommend?

first time home buyer and trying to assess if this is a fair quote - 3 bedrooms & 3 sets of stairs need to be recarpeted but labor charge seems higher than expected. located in San Diego, thank you in advance!

I am doing a project an got a lot of free flooring and I want to try and match it but I am unsure of the brand.

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I installed lvp in my living room and didn’t think the gap had to be so wide for a standard T molding transition so I purchased a lower profile aluminum transition just curious best way to glue down if anyone has input. Thanks

So mad I just came across this reel. I posted about this a month ago, and ended up going with a different idea. But this is way better!

Hello! We recently had epoxy flooring installed some common areas in our condo garage, after the committee for aesthetics chose general direction - light with some darker brown to reference the terracotta throughout the building, somebody ended up changing the general idea of what we agreed on. I’m curious what your thoughts are on the new flooring vs the sample we were leaning towards. Personally I think it’s way too brown and looks kind of tired / old already, but want to see what y’all think! First image is the deck of samples, and the 2nd is the actual install.

Second, is this something that can be gone over again with a new flake color to try and remedy the situation?

Looking for some advice on a hardwood floor refinishing issue.

We had our first-floor hardwood floors refinished and overall they came out really well. The contractor used Bona Traffic HD.

Before the job, we had agreed that the kitchen island could stay in place and they would work around it. During the job, they decided they needed to move it, so they moved it, sanded underneath, and put it back. At that point there were no dents.

The next morning, after the first coat had already been applied, I noticed the island had been put back in a noticeably different position from where it had originally been. I asked them to move it back to its original spot. When they moved it, it left these shallow dents/drag marks in the freshly finished floor.

I asked the contractor about it and his response was basically that the dents were caused by moving the island, that eliminating them would require re-sanding and doing the process again, and that whenever something heavy is placed on the surface, the same thing can happen.

I’m attaching photos, including some low-angle ones where the dents are easier to see.

I’m trying to understand what the realistic options are here. Do these look like something that could be repaired without redoing a large area? Would you leave them alone, try a localized repair, or re-sand a broader section?

The floors otherwise look great, so I’m not looking to create a bigger problem. I just want to understand what an experienced flooring person would consider the best fix.

Thank you!!

Edit: I should mention that the team that created the dent were the refinishers themselves, in case that is relevant. I referred to them as contractors but all the work, including the movement of the island was done by the flooring company.

I just had this vinyl flooring put down after extensive mold remediation/concrete grinding to smooth the slab. The Installers words from the professional flooring company when I showed him wide spread bumps with low level lighting.

"Give it time"

"Bumps are just apart of the job"

"Glue won't mold"

"Is just gas bubbles"

"If you have to turn the light off to see the bumps, then I don't know"

Words from my landlord:

"I don't even see what you're talking about"

"That's just the way the vinyl looks"

"What do you expect us to use for the adhesive"

"Do you expect us to just rip it all out and replace it"

"All flooring has these bumps"