Lino over carpet - temporary art room

[ExtraSlow]

Yeah, there's a lot of different vinyl out there. For sure some is interlocking.

[ThePenIsMightier]

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So yeah, I'll rip out the carpet, you all convinced me...

[bjstare]

I've helped install the peel/stick vinyl, interlock vinyl, and laminate (and that's the order of easiest to less easy install... but any ape can do it). Measure thrice, cut twice right?

[mr2mike]

Get one of these if you're diy.
Will help around doors and closets.

https://www.leevalley.com/en-ca/shop...EaAhnfEALw_wcB

[JRSC00LUDE]

Peel and stick floor is trash. There's great quality interlocking floating floors. But you're going temporary so get the cheap shit haha

[firebane]

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Peel and stick floor is trash. There's great quality interlocking floating floors. But you're going temporary so get the cheap shit haha

Our bathrooms, kitchen, and living room has the peel and stick crap.. ugh.

[ExtraSlow]

Well, send thoughts and prayers. Spent the whole morning in Lowes deciding what I wanted to do, and walked out with a buncha accessories and some $1.79/ft vinyl plank.

Hoping to have carpet ripped out before kids bedtime.

[brucebanner]

[Buster]

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Well, send thoughts and prayers. Spent the whole morning in Lowes deciding what I wanted to do, and walked out with a buncha accessories and some $1.79/ft vinyl plank.

Hoping to have carpet ripped out before kids bedtime.

[mr2mike]

@ExtraSlow this morning flexing his iron ring at Home Depot.

[ExtraSlow]

So, best advice for people doing home renovation projects is to not have kids. Then you would be able to spend more than 4 hours a day working on projects. Although if you didn't have kids, your flooring wouldn't be so fucked up, so it's a trade off.

Anyway, ripped up the carpet (like Quagmire) and took the debris to the dump Saturday. Did the first few rows Saturday afternoon and evening. Things looked good. Did the tricky bit around one side of the closet door Sunday morning, feeling good. Got to the big part of the room, which shoukd be easiest and things went to shit. Realized my previous joints were not tight, joints pulled apart. I took apart nearly the entire floor, had problems reassembling, and had a mental breakdown through the middle of the day Sunday.

Good times.

After some text message therapy sessions with a few buddies, pulled my life together and got back on track. Needed to use more force with the dead-blow mallet and tapping block, but it all worked good. Just have the last 1/4 of the room to do, although at this end there are a lot of custom cuts to take care of. Will see what my week looks like to do this in the evenings.

[JRSC00LUDE]

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So, best advice for people doing home renovation projects is to not have kids. Then you would be able to spend more than 4 hours a day working on projects. Although if you didn't have kids, your flooring wouldn't be so fucked up, so it's a trade off.

Anyway, ripped up the carpet (like Quagmire) and took the debris to the dump Saturday. Did the first few rows Saturday afternoon and evening. Things looked good. Did the tricky bit around one side of the closet door Sunday morning, feeling good. Got to the big part of the room, which shoukd be easiest and things went to shit. Realized my previous joints were not tight, joints pulled apart. I took apart nearly the entire floor, had problems reassembling, and had a mental breakdown through the middle of the day Sunday.

Good times.

After some text message therapy sessions with a few buddies, pulled my life together and got back on track. Needed to use more force with the dead-blow mallet and tapping block, but it all worked good. Just have the last 1/4 of the room to do, although at this end there are a lot of custom cuts to take care of. Will see what my week looks like to do this in the evenings.

Is it a visually square installation? Make all the cheats where no one will notice?!

[ExtraSlow]

I hope the room is square. I guess I will find out when I get to the far wall! So far any of the bad joints or use of cut-offs is in the closet.

[ExtraSlow]

Well, had several problems with the doorway threshold transition. Like bent the track two different times and couldn't get the transition to snap in. But slept on it and was more calm and focused this morning. Got threshold in.

Did the skinny last board along the wall.

And the last bit of the closet.


Gonna do the quarter round after lunch.

[killramos]

Were you able to keep the baseboards in place?

Looks really good.

[ExtraSlow]

The correct and best way to do it is to remove the baseboards. I left baseboards and will be slapping up some quarter ground to cover that small gap.

[Tik-Tok]

That's an awful lot of cracks that evidence could flow into.

[Buster]

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The correct and best way to do it is to remove the baseboards. I left baseboards and will be slapping up some quarter ground to cover that small gap.

triggered.

[ExtraSlow]

i WaS tYPinG from mY pHONe brAh.

[suntan]

Honestly quarter ground looks better