Wood Flooring Project

Come on, admit it. You have been thinking about laying some kind of wood flooring down in your home. Thinking, "Can I do this?"

The though of doing this can be daunting at times, I know. But this is really a project that you can do yourself. With the right tools and the right help, You can do it!

These first videos take you through removing the old carpet, assuming that you have carpet down, and a full install of engineered hardwood flooring. The flooring video might be a little long, but I try to take you through every aspect of the installation. 

You might be all excited now, but then you are also like, "What kind of wood flooring do I want? What the heck is laminate and engineered?" Those are both great questions, so let me straiten out this can of worms for you. Currently there are 3 groups of wood flooring. Solid hardwood, which is as traditional as you can get. It is exactly as it sounds, just solid wood. Then there were laminates. Which is a wood based flooring that has a very tough laminated surface and normally a particle board base. To my knowledge it only comes in a locking grove option. Then there was engineered added to the bunch. To make it simple, engineered flooring is furniture grade plywood. It has advantages that it is actually wood and not plasticy like laminate, and you can get wider planks then traditional solid hardwood. It can be carefully refinished, but not with the big floor sanders that you can take to the solid hardwood. Both the traditional hardwood and engineered hardwood are offered with standard nail down tongue and groove and locking, snap together grooves. 

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Ok, so hopefully you are still psyched to get this project going. Good! Now we should talk about the tools that you will need. When installing any of these three floors you will need a table saw and a miter saw. If you are nailing your floors down then you will need some nail guns as well. And even if your floor is a snap together, you might want it nailed down just so that it just helps it to be quieter and more solid feeling. Yes, you can nail down some snap together floors.. Check out my video review of the Powernail 2000F along with these other helpful videos. 

Do your research and you can make this a successful project. I will be completely honest, this will be one of the more involved projects one may ever do, so getting the right start is so important. 

Flooring

One last tip when buying your flooring, check the hardness scale. If you have kids and dogs, you will regret getting a softer flooring. Below will be Amazon links to almost everything that we talked about here, making it easy for you to find the right tools and it helps support this website. Thank you and good luck!

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