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Laminate flooring is a very good choice for families with pets and children as it is more dent and stain resistant than hardwood flooring. You selected your laminate flooring and wonder if you can install it yourself. Installing laminate flooring is both easy and rewarding – you can show your skill and save money [...]
You noticed that your basement or garage floor needs some patching and leveling. No problem, here are easy to follow steps on how to repair, fix or patch uneven concrete surface and missing cement pieces or cracked cement or concrete surfaces.
Installing a floor in your basement may require leveling the cement floor, if uneven. Do not atempt to level out the grading of the floor as 1/2″ distributed over 4 linear foot is typically required for drainage of condensed moisture.
Installing a basement floor can be extremely easy especially if you are planing to install carpet as subfloors are not required for carpet unless the basement suffers from excessive moisture. For all the other floor covering types it is strongly recommended to install a basement subfloor.
If ceramic tiles, porcelain, or stone coverings are installed on cement subfloors, it is highly recommended to install a crack isolation membrane to waterproof the floor coverings and protect them from the movement of the cement floor.
You realized that your floors are not soundproof enough and you are looking for a floor soundproofing solution. Cork underlayment is the best soundproofing material available that can be used to soundproof any residential floor.
Getting you feet warm with a radiant floor heating system is gaining popularity especially in kitchens, baths, and other home areas with ceramic tile floors. Here are the facts and step by step instructions on how to easily install such floor heating systems.
Rubber floor coverings are scuff and stain resistent, resilent, durable, stable, hold very well under heavy use, and easy to maintain. Rubber floors are perfect for your weights room, home gym, or home fitness room, and are relatively easy to install.
You decided, or only mearly agreed, to finish the basement or paint the garage floor but you noticed some cracks in the concrete and you do not know what to do. Fear not, here is a simple way of repairing cracks in any concrete floor.
The typical options for tile underlayment are plywood, cement boards and isolation membrane. Properly preparing the subfloor is key to any success tile floor covering project. Here are the steps required to sucessfully install plywood, cement boards and isolation membrane underlayments.
You are looking at finishing your basement or installing some type of more confortable floor covering on to of an existing cement floor. Typically concrete floors are prone to be damp, especially in basements. A water resilient subfloor will provide you with the best afordable solution.
One of the most important step before installing any floor covering is installing the floor underlayment. Poor underlayment materials and/or underlayment installation can result in questionable results, failure of the floor covering and costly repairs.
The final step in hanging drywall is the most important and the most difficult one – joint finishing. It is the most important because on it depends the final look of the wall and it is difficult because it requires knowledge, patience and effort.
After planning the drywall installation project and shopping for all the materials and tools you will need comes the moment when you have everything you need to start hanging the panels. Here are the rules you have to follow to get good results with minimum headaches. You already have the plan and the sketch [...]
Hanging drywall is not a very complicated job but this doesn’t mean it is trivial. It involves a fair amount of steps, using many specific tools and making various decisions based on project specific conditions. As in any other situation a man with a plan is way better off than any man without the [...]
Drywall is probably the most commonly used material in today’s homes construction. Drywall is used on the interior walls of homes and other types of buildings where finished surface is needed. It is known by many names including wallboard, gypsum board, sheetrock and plasterboard.
Drywall was invented and introduced on the building materials market [...]
When you are planning for a DIY drywall installation project you have to know in advance what materials and tools you will need. Here is a detailed list of materials and tools used for drywalling projects. Of course you still have to calculate quantities for your actual situation.
There are situations where standard stairs nosing doesn’t fit nicely. The position or the required size or shape cannot be found for sale or the price is out of this world. This was the case in the situation described here. Hardwood was layed out and a piece of nosing was needed for the top [...]
In my opinion bifold doors are way better looking and more practical than the cheap sliding doors many builders install on closets in new homes nowadays. They do that to force your hand into paying more than it is worth for upgrades. But in this case installing bifold doors by yourself is an easy [...]
When you install ceramic tiles in your bathroom you have to remove the toilet seat and lay the tiles around the toilet flange (closet flange). After laying tiles the old flange might be under the level of the tiles surface. This is problem that you have to solve before repositioning the toilet bowl.
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