Transform a Room with Engineered Hardwood Flooring
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By Larry Walton
Professional advice on transforming a room with engineered hardwood flooring.
It’s so fun to tackle a home improvement project that produces a dramatic transformation in a few short hours. This is especially true when you’ve been living with less than desirable conditions for a while.
When I first saw John and Rachelle’s living room floor it was looking a bit funky. It was a look I well recognized. A project started.
John had started demolition on a tile entry floor. He also made a cut in the carpet where he intended to make a new floor break along with the new entry floor. That’s when things in his business took off. Good for biz, not so good for the home project. So, he called me in to finish the job, which, of course, took me away from a project I had going on at my own house!
We talked about some flooring options and especially what could be done quickly and lived on immediately, which brought us to options in prefinished hardwood and finally to engineered hardwood, which installs much like laminate but is real wood on the surface.
They went down the street, picked out a color, and then we picked up the material and installed it.
Remove all furniture before beginning.
Unfurnished Work Space
Got a flooring project? Move the furniture. In fact, it’s best to also clear out the adjacent room so you have a place to keep tools and materials handy and out of the way.
A stiff blade putty knife is a good tool for getting behind baseboards for removal.
