Questions tagged [hardwood-floor]
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How can I align solid wood flooring between rooms?
I have a room layout like the diagram below. I am installing solid hardwood flooring (red oak planks with tongue and groove on both short and long edges) in this area. Eventually, all areas in the ...
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Soundproofing evelated-floor apartment
I live in a coop and have neighbor that uses a machine at night. I can feel the vibration of the machine even while I'm laying in my bed. Would soundproofing helps even if my floor was built elevated ...
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Hardwood Flooring Glue-Assist -- which product is suitable?
I'm installing 5" x 3/4" solid oak hardwood flooring (not engineered!) on a plywood subfloor in a first floor room over a finished basement. The room is <30' wide. I was planning a nail ...
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Fixing hardwood floors by screwing them down
I have 3 year-old engineered hardwood floors sitting on 65 year-old joists. A lot of sagging and squeaking. I have already braced with 2x4s along many, many joists. Subfloor is only half inch. I can’...
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Installing hardwood floors over concrete slab with a finished room underneath
I would like to install hardwood floors on a concrete slab using an adhesive that is also rated as a vapor barrier. Below the slab is a finished room.
From what I read in the installation manual, I ...
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Strategy for floating floor in a weird space?
My upstairs hallway is... Complicated. Due to the house's history, it is on two different levels, and has space carved out of it for chimney, built-in bookcases, corner of a bathtub, and a closet.
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How do I repair a damaged wood floor panel?
A section of wooden floor panel (Barlinek) has been damaged by a heavy object being dropped, creating a roughly rectangular depression with two of the sides of this depression being an actual crack in ...
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Will placing bare hands on floor while sanding cause fingerprints to appear in stain
My wife and I are refinishing the oak hardwood floors on the second story of our home. We are just getting to the end of all the sanding, and are now thinking about how we want to finish the floors. ...
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Should I refinish high-traffic areas of a hardwood floor only or the whole floor? [closed]
Need to refinish our hardwood floor. Do you think we should only sand the high-traffic areas that look bad or the whole floor? Only high-traffic areas look bad. Other areas look new because they were ...
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Old English Light Wood Stain Mistake
I messed up while trying to fix some big scratches in our hardwood floors and feel really bad about it. I picked up some Old English Light Wood stain to cover the scratches, but it turned out way too ...
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When replacing a floor, how do I ensure it doesn't creak?
I have hardwood from the 50s on most of the main level of my house. It hasn't been well taken care of (it's had carpet stapled into it at more than one point and is generally pretty badly worn and ...
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Will these stripes be very visible if I apply finish to the hardwood floors without doing more sanding?
I recently decided to refinish the hardwood floors on the second story of my home. To do this, I rented a drum sander from a local rental facility, and ran it over the floors up through the ...
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The walls in this house might have concrete inside of them, how would i mount large tvs , my pole mounted monitors and run cables thru where i need?
This house was moved from a southern state , not sure what one in 1969, owner says it was built in 1901,the owner is unfortunately one of those guys that destroys almost everything he touches, ...
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Blending new 2 1/4 oak flooring with 20+ y/o oak flooring
I’m installing 2 1/4” oak flooring in the kitchen. It will have to blend in with the dining room flooring and line up parallel to the family room.
I’ve already removed the necessary dining room ...
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Questions about hardwood over hardwood
I am looking into getting new flooring. I live in an apartment on the 8th floor. I have parquet basketweave (see image) which is actually in pretty good shape but it's just not my style. It's also ...
