Hello Folks,
Sometime ago I started the process of installing laminated flooring in some areas of the house: mostly installed in the master bedroom and corridor, now edging the living room from the corridor/hallway. I am using a tongue and groove laminated called "brazilian cherry" purchased at homedepot because of the looks and price point. Also, using basic underlayment. A proper tool kit and spacers been used.
The previous floor was linolium or vinyl, parts of which were a pain to remove (used prybar/hammer, chemicals, etc). Chemicals were used whereon a thick layer of tar-like asbestos rich cutback adhesive: for most part I lived the cut back in place, only scrap parts where are thick still sticking layer were present. I used bondo to repair small imperfections (probably water damage) in the wood subfloor in the bedroom. An issue I had was with non square interior walls which then create large gaps on the edge walls in some spots, like the following:
(trying to fill the edge gaps with small strips of laminate)
I understand that there should be gaps on the long runs of the laminate to account for expansion of the wood, etc, and it also makes it easy to install since everything does not have to super continuous, but often my gaps at spots such as the doorways tend to be uneven and sort of large as the one depicted below. I hope this ok, and at the end of the day it will be covered by the trim.
e
(The pic above shows the past still incomplete installation on the Corridor/hallway)
(transition from hallway to living room with doorway aluminum trim)
In the past apparently someone covered a ventillation duct with a piece of plywood for safety reasons (hole on the floor).It is truly amazing how much dirty and objects (purses, etc) can be found in an hvac ventilation duct: I got a grocery back full of thick dirty from immediate below the duct opening on the floor. It seems that the ventilation duct has a gas line going through it
The opening for the ventillation/hav on the floor measures 24x8 and I could not find a floor register to fit at most home centers I went so far. Any suggestion about there whereabouts of where one could be find?
Also, most of the cuts were done with common circular saw/miter saw blade (ripping blade) which did not render nice cutting edges, but theses edges are all going to be covered with baseboard trim, etc, so none will be visible.
thks
Sometime ago I started the process of installing laminated flooring in some areas of the house: mostly installed in the master bedroom and corridor, now edging the living room from the corridor/hallway. I am using a tongue and groove laminated called "brazilian cherry" purchased at homedepot because of the looks and price point. Also, using basic underlayment. A proper tool kit and spacers been used.
The previous floor was linolium or vinyl, parts of which were a pain to remove (used prybar/hammer, chemicals, etc). Chemicals were used whereon a thick layer of tar-like asbestos rich cutback adhesive: for most part I lived the cut back in place, only scrap parts where are thick still sticking layer were present. I used bondo to repair small imperfections (probably water damage) in the wood subfloor in the bedroom. An issue I had was with non square interior walls which then create large gaps on the edge walls in some spots, like the following:
I understand that there should be gaps on the long runs of the laminate to account for expansion of the wood, etc, and it also makes it easy to install since everything does not have to super continuous, but often my gaps at spots such as the doorways tend to be uneven and sort of large as the one depicted below. I hope this ok, and at the end of the day it will be covered by the trim.
e
(The pic above shows the past still incomplete installation on the Corridor/hallway)
(transition from hallway to living room with doorway aluminum trim)
In the past apparently someone covered a ventillation duct with a piece of plywood for safety reasons (hole on the floor).It is truly amazing how much dirty and objects (purses, etc) can be found in an hvac ventilation duct: I got a grocery back full of thick dirty from immediate below the duct opening on the floor. It seems that the ventilation duct has a gas line going through it
The opening for the ventillation/hav on the floor measures 24x8 and I could not find a floor register to fit at most home centers I went so far. Any suggestion about there whereabouts of where one could be find?
Also, most of the cuts were done with common circular saw/miter saw blade (ripping blade) which did not render nice cutting edges, but theses edges are all going to be covered with baseboard trim, etc, so none will be visible.
thks
