Home Renovation Toronto

By Ingrid Preube

You want to think about how many transitions and what type of transitions you have. For example, I had transitions to carpet and knew that I would need some tack strip to finish those out, so I made sure to keep enough of the tack strip in good pieces that were big enough for the doorways. There is not typically any tack strip installed in a doorway, so when you cut the carpet, you”ll need the tack strip to hold the cut part.

Next, remove the padding. This is typically stapled down on the edges, but pulls up fairly easy. Again, I had my little helpers roll for me.

Paper was installed prior to installing the carpet. We needed to remove this because there were too many staples in it and because there were a lot of squeaky floor planks that had to be screwed down.

Fixing Planking
Since you have exposed the sub flooring, it’’s a good idea to walk around and find any squeaky planks. We actually went through and screwed all the planks at every joist. When these planks were installed, only one nail was used per joist. The floor had a lot of squeaks. After we went through and screwed everything down, the floor no longer squeaked. The customer was discouraged because now she could not hear her children running around when it was nap time!

Don”t use a cordless driver for this job, you”ll run out of juice quick. John did not have his regular drill with him and I did not bring my truck to the job on the first day.

In this case, like I said, we did not get to start on a long wall. It was actually a very short one. We went down the hallway and measured from our caulk line on one side of the hallway (see diagram) and then measured from the caulk line on the other side.

In this case, like I said, we did not get to start on a long wall. It was actually a very short one. We went down the hallway and measured from our caulk line on one side of the hallway (see diagram) and then measured from the caulk line on the other side. We could then line up our first piece with these two measurements and we would be parallel with our caulk line.

This type of laminate goes down very nicely. It was 5/16″ thick. I found that most of the boards were the same thickness but we did run into a few that were a bit higher than the others. Nothing to stub your toe on, but noticeably. First thing is to open about 3 or 4 boxes at a time and pull from each of them. The first piece should be the longest you can do. They come in the box with varying lengths. You need to determine one thing right off. Do you want a ‘’stairstep” look or a very ”random” look?

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