Yes. You can paint laminate floors that feel dull and outdated to refresh the look of your home; all you need is a primer, roller, paint, and your hands. Replacing the affected areas is costly but is the best restoration method for your floor. If you’re on a low budget but still want to upgrade,
When making home improvement projects like painting your house, it is normal for it to splash or drip on your floor. Sometimes when lucky, you might notice it very early and wipe it off effortlessly before it dries. In some cases, however, it might go unnoticed until it has dried up. Also in some cases
Practically, the idea of cutting vinyl flooring is scoring and snapping. All you need is a straightedge and a knife (utility knife) to score the top layer of the flooring, then bend it back to break. However, this method works best only when the cuts you have to make are straight ones. Vinyl plank flooring
Repeatedly cleaning laminate flooring with bleach will do more harm to the floor than good. Bleach contains sodium hypochlorite, which takes the glossy shine off, and if used in concentrated volumes, it whitens your laminate floor. Occasional use of little bleach on laminate flooring to clean is not a problem, but excess use of hard,
A quarter-round molding for flooring is a convex molding with a cross-section in the form of a quarter circle. It is usually painted or stained to fit in the right angle formed where the floor meets the baseboard. It is basically used as a decorative feature to hide gaps between the two. The installation process
A transition strip for laminate flooring is a small piece of wood used to bridge laminate and laminate or laminate and another type of floor finish from one room to the other. A transition strip accommodates floor shifts, reducing the risks of accidents by tripping. A good transition strip should be easy to install, scratch-resistant,
A flooring stagger pattern means alternating planks such that no two immediate rows have the same arrangement of planks. This adds aesthetic value to your room, killing the monotony of having a repetitive design. This technique is important in floating floors like laminate floors because apart from making your room look good, it also increases
Polyurethane for floors can be either water-based or oil-based. Oil-based polyurethane has an amber hue that darkens with time. Water-based polyurethane on the other hand is clear and remains clear. It dries much faster and produces no smell compared to oil-based polyurethane. When upgrading wooden flooring for a glossy, smooth, and durable floor all in
Acclimation OF Laminate flooring is the process of adapting/conditioning laminate planks/flooring to the environment in which it is going to be installed. One of the widely used flooring finish in this era is laminate flooring because it looks exactly like hardwood. Hardwood has been used by homeowners for many years, for it is one of
Like wooden floors, laminate can catch sticky residue if not cleaned properly. Wax buildup, some types of dirt from shoes, and the use of the wrong cleaning solutions can leave buildup on laminate floors. But, what is the easiest way to remove buildup from laminate flooring? To remove buildup on laminate flooring, first, sweep the