Flooring Installers Losing Time, Facing Errors
13 posts across 3 communities in the last 60 days; 77% from r/Flooring.
“So when you're replacing baseboards you caulk where the baseboard meets the wall. But what about where the baseboard meets the floor? Ideally the baseboard is resting on the floor completely, but with old homes especially things aren't just so. Yes, floors will expand and…”
“Master bath flooring 12x24 and doing the hex tile in the small room where the toilet is. There is a 2.5mm difference in height (thickness?). I’d like the thinnest focal transition possible. I looked at Schluter slope transition strips, but the options are only the total channel…”
“I had carpet installed, I have high baseboards. The issue I have is this doesn’t seem correct to me. It shouldn’t just stop at the baseboard. It should go directly to the wall past the baseboard. which it does for the right side of the room, not for the left. There is a giant…”
Homeowners are encountering issues with flooring installations, including gaps in baseboards, incorrect direction choices, and disagreements over installation techniques. Some are seeking advice on how to fix these problems or questioning the quality of workmanship.
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“So I'm putting in baseboard for a client. It's a new renovation. There are places where the flooring doesn't go to the wall and the baseboard therefore isn't landing on the floor. Homeowner wants me to aim out the baseboard from the wall so that…”
“Welcome to my split level house. I have taken out my old linoleum and installing laptop flooring. So my question is what direction do I run the flooring? Thanks submitted by /u/Mediocre_Parsley_547 [link] [comments]”
“Renovating a very old house and the floor is quite a bit out of level. Obviously still need to trim shims but there is a large gap at the front of toilet and nothing at the back. For the best finish, should I caulk as usual or is there any other solution to this? submitted by /u/Defiant-Trust-2615 [link] [comments]”
“How to fill these gaps in a decent way? We, me and my carpenter we agreed the easiest and least invasive solution would be to install a low-profile baseboard in the same colour and material as the tiles, or alternatively use a slim stainless-steel profile. What do you think? submitted by /u/PsychologicalOil6048 [link] [comments]”
“So when you're replacing baseboards you caulk where the baseboard meets the wall. But what about where the baseboard meets the floor? Ideally the baseboard is resting on the floor completely, but with old homes especially things aren't just so. Yes, floors will expand and contract with temperature and moisture, but caulk should allow some stretch, right? My issue is with some interior walls in the basement that, while they have dried out from water damage, are still a source of dirt (its”
“Installing vinyl plank flooring in a 3x5 room. door opens to the 2x3 section you walk on and then toilet to left and vanity to right. my question is to what degree of precision must I have in leveling of the floor to the the sides of the toilet, or underneath the vanity, places that no one will walk on? obviously if there’s a dip right where a vanity leg is, it’ll strain the flooring, but otherwise. submitted by /u/Vast_Match_7630 [link] [comments]”
“TL;DR 2 options: - run them towards light source,, which needs an expansion joint at the entrance to the kitchen - run them widthways along longest wall, no expansion joint required Original post: Yet another post asking for opinions on flooring direction. I feel a bit stuck. One direction points towards the natural light and the other along the width of the back 8m wide wall and I think looks better. Further complicating things is that if I make them orientated towards the light, I’ll need an e”
“Hello, I am redoing the floors in my home and wanted to install lvp throughout the house except for the two bathrooms. I am stuck deciding which direction I should install it in. The current flooring is going north and south and I don't like how it makes the hallway look. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. submitted by /u/Benya_ [link] [comments]”
“I’m getting some 9⅜” x 72” laminate flooring installed soon. My house is approximately 1,700 sq. ft., but only about 1,500 sq. ft. is getting the laminate; the rest will be tile. I’m wondering if I can run my foyer flooring east/west, which would be left/right when you walk in the door, and then run the rest of the house north/south. The foyer is 12’ wide by 4’8” deep and is raised, so you step down one small step into either the living room or study. My flooring guy suggested running the foyer”
“Master bath flooring 12x24 and doing the hex tile in the small room where the toilet is. There is a 2.5mm difference in height (thickness?). I’d like the thinnest focal transition possible. I looked at Schluter slope transition strips, but the options are only the total channel height, how do I know which one can remedy the height difference? Someone else in a thread suggested T-strip, but all of the ones that I’m searching have a really thick top of the T. Search bars are zero help to me right”
“Looking for suggestions on how to make this final transition to my bathroom tile. Previously, there was carpet instead of LVP. submitted by /u/MulletRunFTW [link] [comments]”
“I am doing flooring for the first time. Previous owners had their flooring horizontal. I want to lay it vertically but it does have that awkward entry to the kitchen. Let me know what sounds like a better idea. submitted by /u/ballskazoo [link] [comments]”
“So on the left is one room and the right is the front entry. There is a wall in between. The right side of the wall is about a quarter inch difference from the left side. Is there any way you can think of to avoid a transition strip t-mold? It's so close to being aligned but yet so far (quarter inch). submitted by /u/Head-Solution-2598 [link] [comments]”
“I had carpet installed, I have high baseboards. The issue I have is this doesn’t seem correct to me. It shouldn’t just stop at the baseboard. It should go directly to the wall past the baseboard. which it does for the right side of the room, not for the left. There is a giant gap between, where the carpet ends ( just under the baseboard) and the wall for the entire other side. For context, this is a sunroom with a cement floor. We didn’t go with under padding because we plan to use this room as”
“After removing the baseboard I noticed there was a larger gap than expected between the tile and drywall. I’m trying to figure out whether I should lay a feather finish and bring the gap level with tile height. My concern is if I fill that recessed area with Ardex up to the existing tile height, then the new LVP thickness gets added on top and the LVP won’t physically fit underneath the lower drywall edge. The 1/4 inch spacer looks like it fits flush to the tile grout line from under dry wall ed”
“Which direction would you install your LVP for this floor plan? I think all the flooring should go parallel with the hallway, but my wife seems to think the bedrooms should go perpendicular to the hallway. submitted by /u/Pookie9091 [link] [comments]”
“Have a galley way type of kitchen thinking the contractor should lay out the preengineered floors in this direction, is this correct? We can run a 90 degree cut with no thresholds. This specific floor has tongue and groove on all four sides. submitted by /u/Wp2104 [link] [comments]”
“I'm planning on installing hardwood in two rooms. The two rooms have an entry divider between them. How would I align the rows so they meet up perfectly at the entryway like in the image? They only way I see it would be to start and nail one side of the room then on the other side at the entry dry fit the rows back to the wall so I know the spacing. Then nail or glue that row against the wall. Now I would have the exact spacing required to meet up with what is already nailed down. subm”
“We are replacing linoleum kitchen floor with 17” porcelain hex tile. They have finished laying the tile, but we have concerns about the spacing work. The spacing appears non uniform, with wide variation in the gaps from tile to tile. We emailed the sales person/owner and he responded, “My technician mentioned that some of the hexagon tiles varied in size by approximately 1/16”. As those small differences accumulated across the installation, they caused the grout-joint spacing to appear uneven in”
“Apologies for the crappy diagram and the likely very basic question. So you walk into the house and onto the tile entry. The house then splits off into three directions. I’m replacing ugly tile in the kitchen & dining/family rooms, carpet in the living room, and LVP in the hallway. What’s the recommendation for the direction I should lay the new wood flooring given this design? submitted by /u/Remodoughing [link] [comments]”
“My main house has large vinyl plank flooring in a continuous run in the direction that makes sense for the main room. I have an office that was not part of the main flooring replacement, so there is a break (transition strip). The flooring meets the office door perpendicularly. If I run the flooring the length of the room (as is generally recommended), it's perpendicular to the flooring at the doorway so the direction changes visually. My wife wants the flooring to be laid matching the direc”
“We replaced a piece of our bathroom subfloor (lighter colored wood). We placed the piece of wood between the two beams to help support the piece we put in an it feels secure on that side. We need to do another on the other side to help support it, but we are unsure how to do it due to the white pipe on the other side. We are not professionals at all, so please be kind. Just a single Mom and daughter trying to fix a lot of mistakes left by the previous owner on an extremely small budget. su”
“Ok, so I need some help. Here is my new entryway. It is currently engineered hardwood and then the kitchen to the right is linoleum and the living room in front is oak hardwood. I’m planning to make everything matching hardwood. I will keep the oak and refinish as light and natural as possible. The problem is this entryway. Seemingly I should match the directionality of the living room (aka keep it parallel to the living room) throughout but then the entryway might look weird because in hallways”
“Is there any reason this bathroom subfloor is a 1/2 inch or so higher than the hallway? It’s a 1975 second floor home submitted by /u/robbee810 [link] [comments]”
“This is a complete DIY bathroom job. Surround, drywall patch, paint, flooring etc. I stared at this room and tried to plan out the tile in a way to make it fit correctly. It is LVT flooring. It was quite honestly the absolute worst part of the remodel which is absurd lol. Anyway, on the right as you look along the tub, the tub itself was not completely square and had slightly more (about 1/16th) taper than the front. So while the flooring may be within about 1/4” at the back, it is more like 5/1”
“Is this the correct direction to lay herringbone floor. Start in dead centre and point vs away from front door down t shaped corridor submitted by /u/steoobrien [link] [comments]”
“Would a herringbone-style tile for the floor work in this small powder room? Or would that appear too busy and is a large format tile more recommended? submitted by /u/pneumonee [link] [comments]”
“First question - is this floor cut around the shower base within the margin of error for the amount of gap or could have the crew been more precise? Should I ask them to re-do? Second question - what is the generally accepted way to cover any gaps between floor and shower base? Our contractor is proposing plastic shoe molding or one of those peel and stick shoe moldings. Any more ideas that would look nicer? submitted by /u/s1ber1an [link] [comments]”
“Is this gap ok for bathroom baseboard using ceramic tile against the wall? It is about 1/8”. Should I ask my floor guy to redo it with smaller gap? Or is it ok to have him fill in with a lot of silicone caulk? submitted by /u/VDtrader [link] [comments]”
“Hey all, I'm doing the flooring of most of this floor but I'm stuck on choosing the direction of the flooring. The foyer and bathroom will be tile however the entire rest of the floor will be a single engineered hardwood. I have two potential ideas but open to others: I do vertical direction until we reach the stairwell/hall. Then I switch for the family room to kitchen to doing horizontal flooring. This lets me keep the right direction in both areas I feel like but it leaves a transitio”