Bought my first house, 1300sqft 4 bedroom. 2 upstairs 2 downstairs. Has a “semi” finished 1970s era basement and laundry / work room.
Even has a shitty bar…
First thing i decided to do is repaint the kitchen, and living room followed by restoring the hardwood floors and giving the kitchen a new floor entirely. The bedrooms have been primed but no color yet.
As of 1 hour ago, i have a cold coming on but wanted to finish. Big thanks to andy / 1qikz for letting me borrow a saw and tool so i could finish this tonight.
Looks great! I plan to do this to my Kitchen soon. I have linoleum in there now that is dented and ripped and it needs to go. I do have to pick it apart somehow though…generally when laying laminate floor, you want to stagger your seams. This will prevent the floor from coming apart and also won’t give you 1 big seam running through your floor…just a fyi
I ran my own in my basement. I read a lot and believe it or not, I used videos on YouTube as I was doing my connections and everything turned out great. I asked for some tips from people before finalizing everything and the only thing I forgot to do was to staple my electrical lines to the studs and my buddy inspected it and caught it before I closed up the walls.
Yeah it’s not rocket surgery, but the last time I assumed someone on here could follow basic instructions they let a gas leak piss for a week and then smeared pipe dope on the joint and called it good.
I always wondered what the best protocol is for a project like this. I assume the absolute best way to do a floor in the kitchen is to pull up the cabinets, and lay the new flooring under them, but does the method you did work fine? If you change the cabinets in the future, or re-do the layout of the kitchen, would you probably just re-do the floor again as well? I suppose it’s cheap enough, so it’s probably a safe bet!
