Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Laminate floor update

I totally forgot to post about the other project I tackled this weekend - laying the laminate floor in my office. Basically it's about 90% done. It looks pretty good, and other than the prep work being a royal pain in the ass (ripping up the nasty, dog-pee-moistened carpet, disposing of the disintegrating carpet pad, pulling up about a thousand staples and nails from the floor...) it was pretty easy to cut and install the pieces. They locked together with minimal effort.

I did end up making a fundamental rookie mistake in not realizing I would need the quarter-round molding to go around the entire room and cover up where the edges didn't meet perfectly at the wall. You're supposed to use spacers to leave a 1/2" border around the perimeter, to accommodate for the flooring spreading out. Which I did, but my measuring wasn't exactly perfect, so I need the quarter round to cover my not-so-perfect work:



Thankfully (or not), I ordered just one piece of quarter-round when I ordered the flooring, thinking I'd need it for the seam where the stair met the floor. But it came in the wrong color that didn't match the bamboo flooring at all. We went back to Lowes on Sunday and ordered the right amount of what will hopefully be the right material. It's not supposed to arrive for another week and a half, but i hope it comes sooner so I can put my office back together.

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