New kitchen floor

[toolferone]

I got a great deal on laminate flooring on CL. So this weekend my dad and I installed it. I still have to put the molding back in but it looking SO much better then before.

This is the floor we had!

Just kidding that was the orginal floor, the previous owner had put a ugly white vinyl on top of the beautiful green floor.

Here is a WIP picture.

Here is the finished floor.

So incase anyone wants to know, I paid $.41 a square foot :gar-Bi.

 

[Travis Porter]

41 cents a square foot? Call the police because you stole it!!!

Nice Tom!

 

[ptt49er]

That looks great!

You did steal that flooring, that's a heck of a price!

 

[DaveO]

This is the floor we had!

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What's wrong with that. It looks like some cheese I had for dinner earlier tonight :dontknow::dontknow:
The new floor looks great :icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum:icon_thum


Dave

 

[WoodWrangler]

Looks great! What a difference that will make for you and your family as you use that room. Worth every penny ... even at that outrageous price!

 

[toolferone]

Jeremy, I saw all the work going on in your kitchen, looking good. Mine is just a little face lift, but most important my wife is happy!

 

[ScottM]

Tom, nice looking job and a great deal on the flooring. That has to be worth at least 100 new tool points. :icon_thum

 

[PChristy]

Looks great Tom - at .41 that is a great deal - LOML works at a laminated wood flooring manufacturing and we can't even get 2nd hand stuff for that price - word of warning - we had it in our kitchen and one of the water values bursted when our daughter came over to turn everything back on while we where on our way home from vacation and she didn't know it - thank goodness it was a small leak - but it was enough to ruin the floor - I took it all up and put tile in - make sure you do not leave any water standing and if you have any inside pets - the acid in there urine will mess up the facing - I have learned alot about laminated since LOML is the customer rep - hope this helps

 

[toolferone]

Phillip, thanks for the tips. Hopefully in about 5 years we will be gutting the kitchen and starting over. We will be going with tile at that point, but at the price we paid for this it is so much better then before.

 

[Bigdog72]

I am also getting ready to remove a wood floor in our kitchen. Our culprit was a slow leak in the icemaker line behind the refrig. We know have a 2" high ridge across the kitchen floor. LOML wants tile.

 

[Mike Davis]

We really need to redo our kitchen floor, it has "so much character"!

After 150 years it just needs a little face lift, don't you think?

The big problem is the 8 inch oak beams in the cellar, over time they have sagged and the floor is far from level. You would think 8 inch oak beams would be fairly easy to replace. Did I mention they are log beams?

I think a major gutting and complete redo would be great. I'd like to remove the bead board and refinish the log walls but my wife wants to put up sheet rock. Guess who will win that decision?

Wonder how much I could sell the original 150 year old pine flooring for? :rotflm:

 

[Trent Mason]

Great looking floor Tom, and at a great price! :swoon: Phillip gave you some excellent advice. I've ripped up plenty of laminate flooring after situations just like the one he had. The good news is, if you do end up with a leak and need to rip the floor up, it will come up faster than you can get it out to the trash. :rotflm: Looks great! Enjoy!

Trent