Wood Floors

[JKTex]

Ya regular padding would be a bad idea. I was thinking about the same thing after you mentioned doing that, and my first thought was that jute padding. But I don't think that would keep it in place very well.

Those none slip pads you get at HD and Lowes work fine for a while if you can keep them straight. We have one that slides like crazy after a few years on it. Maybe more like 6-7 years, but it's not gripy anymore.

I'll keep watching this one.....

[Bacchus2b]

Ya regular padding would be a bad idea. I was thinking about the same thing after you mentioned doing that, and my first thought was that jute padding. But I don't think that would keep it in place very well.

Those none slip pads you get at HD and Lowes work fine for a while if you can keep them straight. We have one that slides like crazy after a few years on it. Maybe more like 6-7 years, but it's not gripy anymore.

I'll keep watching this one.....

Rug pads come in various quality levels, and as JKTex mentions, they also wear out. We bought a premium rug pad from Pottery Barn (9 x 12) years ago that was about $100 and it never slipped.

When we moved to Lantana I got cheap and bought the $39 special that was much thinner and it slips around, especially when you vacuum.

[love Lantana]

Ya regular padding would be a bad idea. I was thinking about the same thing after you mentioned doing that, and my first thought was that jute padding. But I don't think that would keep it in place very well.

Those none slip pads you get at HD and Lowes work fine for a while if you can keep them straight. We have one that slides like crazy after a few years on it. Maybe more like 6-7 years, but it's not gripy anymore.

I'll keep watching this one.....

Rug pads come in various quality levels, and as JKTex mentions, they also wear out. We bought a premium rug pad from Pottery Barn (9 x 12) years ago that was about $100 and it never slipped.

When we moved to Lantana I got cheap and bought the $39 special that was much thinner and it slips around, especially when you vacuum.

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/pre ... cm_src=SCH

is this the one? I am guessing then, you had no problem with it damaging the floor?

[Bacchus2b]

Ya regular padding would be a bad idea. I was thinking about the same thing after you mentioned doing that, and my first thought was that jute padding. But I don't think that would keep it in place very well.

Those none slip pads you get at HD and Lowes work fine for a while if you can keep them straight. We have one that slides like crazy after a few years on it. Maybe more like 6-7 years, but it's not gripy anymore.

I'll keep watching this one.....

Rug pads come in various quality levels, and as JKTex mentions, they also wear out. We bought a premium rug pad from Pottery Barn (9 x 12) years ago that was about $100 and it never slipped.

When we moved to Lantana I got cheap and bought the $39 special that was much thinner and it slips around, especially when you vacuum.

http://www.potterybarn.com/products/pre ... cm_src=SCH

is this the one? I am guessing then, you had no problem with it damaging the floor?

This is long before they came out with the "tree-hugger, recycled" premium edition! The pad listed on the website as their regular pad now, used to be the premium pad a long time ago, and they had a very thin one as the entry level. The recycled pad looks thicker which is a good thing!

[love Lantana]

Well our floors are done. They are so incredibly beautiful, I love them! Apparently all of the concern about the bound carpet scratching the floors was all for not, when they bind carpet for hard wood floors they also line the back of it. So all we had to put down was anti scid stuff to keep them from sliding. They came out beautiful, I love the carpet pieces. It was soooooooooo much more work than we thought. Pretty much like moving and not going any where. We had unbelieveable amount of dust. But all done now.

[JKTex]

It looks great! Hopefully I'll post pics soon as well. We're stuck trying to decide if we want to extend a wall first.

Even if money were no object, remodeling would still be a major pain in the neck!

And that's good to know about the carpet/rugs. I wondered if that could be done.

[Common Sense Al]

Yep! That looks nice. Looks like you choose to not remove the baseboards and instead use the quarter round. We decided to remove the baseboards.

I learned a long time ago that everything is more work than it seems. Maybe because I develop software and every idea is more work than you originally think or you forget about something that needs to be done or you run into unexpected problems, or usually all of those things.

[love Lantana]

yea we just had the whole inside of our house painted, we did not want to rip off the baseboards, also I love the finished look of the trim. My husband also had the rest of the house trimmed out, it looks amazing. Such a small thing but wow, big difference.

[Austin]

Has anyone ever had any problems w/ squeaking or creaking and engineered hardwoods?

[love Lantana]

that is a common problem, can be easily fixed. Hollow spot has to be drilled and injected and then touched up. We had a few, it is something you can't really get away from. We chose a distressed engineered hardwood, you can't see the fix at all. A flooring person has to do it. 972-523-9204

[JKTex]

Has anyone ever had any problems w/ squeaking or creaking and engineered hardwoods?

Do you mean squeaking and creaking with engineered hardwood? Wood is a natural product but just like with solid wood, floor prep and installation makes all the difference. Also the quality of the flooring and how it's installed. I doubt many with concrete slab's float a floor so that shouldn't be a problem. And if there is a real squeaking problem with a board or section, it can be replaced if the installer knows what they are doing.

[JKTex]

The problem with injection is the adhesive used for the floor can't be injected but something much more flow-able does. From what I'm told, if it works at first, it's likely not going to last. We don't have anything yet that needs to be done but, if I get on my hands a knees and start knocking, I can find spots that sound hollow, but they don't make any noise stepping on them. But the foundation needs to be prepped and floated to fill low areas but most good engineered flooring is pretty forgiving. If I recall, it's like 3/8" at 10'.

Also, with good engineered wood flooring, that movement and noise isn't a problem, just can be an annoyance. The install crew foreman told me they had just done a really bad floor but the customer wanted them to leave it as is and install even though it had places that it moved over an inch. The customer said he liked that in wood floors. He did however, have to forgo any installation or product warranty.

Close to end end of our install, they found a bad piece that they should have caught and not used it, but about 30 minutes and it was replaced and you can tell where it is.

[love Lantana]

our floor, foundation was prepped, in our sons room the foundation was really bad, had a big drop off, they pretty had to repay a new foundation over it. We tend to be perfectionist, we were on our hands knees knocking and if we found a spot, we had them fix it.

[Austin]

Thanks for the posts. Not too worried about hollow sounds as we have a problem w/ the whole floor sounding like rice krispies when you walk on it. I am not sure what would cause that. We paid extra for concrete floor leveling.

[johnmaynor]

Couple of thoughts for you. I have used the Pergo brand of engineered floor in the past.
Their ad campaign may be a bit silly because they use a Great Dane named Pergo as their spokesdog.
Their claim is their floors resist her nails. I have a Dane and I must say their claims are accurate.
She did three years plus in one house without her nails scratching the floor.

We are currently renovating our kitchen in our home in Double Oak. We chose a porcelain tile for our kitchen. The look is almost scary it is so wood like. It is actually more wood like than most of the engineered floors.

Our neighbors across the street have just had to have their hardwood replaced because of a kitchen water leak. It was covered by their insurance but it was a world class mess. They had glue-down hardwood which had to be replaced. The installer then stripped the concrete with wood and nailed the new oak floor to that. Looks really good but it took most of a month to do with removal, drying time and the time to finish the product in place.

We went with our tile choice to avoid all of this potential fun.