Update Page 2, the whole house is now done... New Floor in the Master Bedroom and Bath - Merry Christmas

Great looking floors i put the exact same stuff in my home office.

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Now, how much more of the house do you need to do?

Well, yesterday I ordered enough to do the rest of the house. The whole house. So I guess in a couple weeks, I’ll be taking a few days off work and installing flooring in the entire house.

I’m pretty excited as our current flooring is a medium/dark brown. It makes the house dark and dreary.

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I’m pretty excited as our current flooring is a medium/dark brown. It makes the house dark and dreary.

My truck, I ordered with the "cashmere / tan" fabric interior. Stupid for tradesman? No, it is light and refreshing. When I build a car on the Mercedes / Porsche / Volvo websites, I usually go for the light tan interior with a darker exterior.

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Agreed, I had a BMW with the camel interior. Was beautiful. This is not that kind of brown. It’s a sad, ugly brown. Since the only pics of the floor have the dog, you get to see him too. See photo below.

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There were two tools that were quite helpful. One is the Zenith trim puller. It works quite well. That said, there were some places that they shot four nails into the stud, and the baseboard was a real bitch to get off. The trim pulled definitely made it a whole lot easier.

The other tool was the Milwaukee Oscillating Multi-tool. I took a scrap piece if the new flooring, set it next to the door jamb, and then used the multi-tool with the wood cutting blade and cut the jambs so the flooring would fit underneath. It worked out really well.

Just as well, I’m quite happy with how the transition between the bedroom and the bathroom came out. It was pretty cool as I cut out the piece and then attached it to a second piece, then laid out the non stick paper over the grip strip. Put the pieces in place and while holding them where they needed to be, slid the paper out so the grip strips could bond.

I didn't know this tool existed. I've got one on the way. Still have to remodel a couple bathrooms. The prybar I've been using has been less than optimal for pulling boards.

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So now the whole house is done. I took the week off work and redid the rest of the entire house. I wasn’t sure if it was worth it when my back was killing me, but in the end, yeah, it looks fantastic!

Before, it was brown and gloomy.

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Looking at the photos, youdid an excellent job.

In 2015 we had Lowes install laminate flooring in our home, 1400 sf. 3 guys,2 days, they did an excellent job. $8,000 . They moved furniture, cleaned up, were very polite and professional.

I couldn`t havedonewhatyou did.

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Nice! I'm just about to begin cleaning the cracks between shrunken cupped c.1926 softwood flooring, prior to packing them with expensive filler. Then exhaustive sanding. Then smelly oil-stain finishing. I should have done this 20 years ago!

I've got a nice 7' x 11' carpet in the closet; it would tie that living room together nicely. But do see the allure of none, for sweeping purposes. Where's the cat?

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Wow, you’ve been busy. Great job, I would’ve never attempted that project on my own.

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Wow, you’ve been busy. Great job, I would’ve never attempted that project on my own.

A good portion of my life my pops was a contractor and a finish carpenter. Which meant that I was having to learn the same things. Hated it at the time, very fortunate to have learned those skills though. Had I not been taught those skills, I may not have started this whole endeavor.

Now it designing and building the outdoor kitchen!

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