I tiled a floor that wasn't level and it didn't crack.It's tiled now, but because the floor isn't level, it's cracking in some places so we have to remove it completely.
I'll have to google it more as it raises a ton more questions for me.
I'm guessing the whole slab is moving... we are on top of sand and water here in Florida. :/I tiled a floor that wasn't level and it didn't crack.
You can trowel some leveler in underneath the uneven spot and retile just that.
I mean, unless the whole slab under it is moving. Then you're just fucked no matter what you do.
It's tiled now, but because the floor isn't level, it's cracking in some places so we have to remove it completely.
Stress relief too... someone give me a huge hammer!!!Ouch. From what I understand that is a shit ton of very unpleasant labor
1/4 round was the standard trim for real hardwood for the better part of the 20th century. I had 1/4 round trim around the original 60 year old unsealed oak floors in my old house.the reason 'floating' works wonderfully is because when it expands & contracts, it doesn't bow.
You take off your baseboard (sometimes 1/2 inch or more thick), and put the flooring in to 1/8 inch from all the walls. THEN put your baseboard down over the gap. It covers the gap, looks slick as fuck, and if the floor expands a little, it just expands into that gap.
Next time you go into a home with the 1/4 round that goes around the room in front of the baseboard you can almost assure that they laid their floor down over the existing floor and just laid the 1/4 round down over it and nailed it to the baseboard. Cheap, #povertytrim, way to do it. But I've seen it countless times.
the reason 'floating' works wonderfully is because when it expands & contracts, it doesn't bow.
You take off your baseboard (sometimes 1/2 inch or more thick), and put the flooring in to 1/8 inch from all the walls. THEN put your baseboard down over the gap. It covers the gap, looks slick as fuck, and if the floor expands a little, it just expands into that gap.
Next time you go into a home with the 1/4 round that goes around the room in front of the baseboard you can almost assure that they laid their floor down over the existing floor and just laid the 1/4 round down over it and nailed it to the baseboard. Cheap, #povertytrim, way to do it. But I've seen it countless times.
No, it's the only way you can do hardwood floors just about anywhere that the humidity varies by more than a couple percent over the course of the year.Ah, okay, I do understand this then. It's the only way you can actually do floors in colorado because of the expansive soil issues they have there.
Actualy I'm pretty sure the previous home owner tiled over the vinyl flooring.I tiled a floor that wasn't level and it didn't crack.
You can trowel some leveler in underneath the uneven spot and retile just that.
I mean, unless the whole slab under it is moving. Then you're just fucked no matter what you do.
It's tiled now, but because the floor isn't level, it's cracking in some places so we have to remove it completely.
WELP.Actualy I'm pretty sure the previous home owner tiled over the vinyl flooring.
People have been freaking out about sinkholes in our neighborhood.Sounds like the foundations may be sinking.
Nah, it was just a dumb homeowner I think. It was built in 98WELP.
How old is the house? A lot of older ones have multiple layers of linoleum because the bottom one is made with asbestos, and it was cheaper to just roll a new floor out over the old one instead of paying for abatement. That's what happened with my old house (1948).
People have been freaking out about sinkholes in our neighborhood.
1 mile and change from my house as the crow flies. Ladybutt still freaks out about it sometimes.Florida - Too much rain - you get sinkholes... Not enough rain - you get sinkholes...
fuck that
Though the dude that died when a sinkhole opened up under his bedroom and they never found his body. What a shitty way to go.
It's fucking terrifying.1 mile and change from my house as the crow flies. Ladybutt still freaks out about it sometimes.
I spaced my hardwood floor 1/2" from the walls when I did my basement a couple months back, necessitating both baseboard and 1/4 round to cover the gap. But it'll never create a problem. That's not poverty trim, that's doing actual quality work.Next time you go into a home with the 1/4 round that goes around the room in front of the baseboard you can almost assure that they laid their floor down over the existing floor and just laid the 1/4 round down over it and nailed it to the baseboard. Cheap, #povertytrim, way to do it. But I've seen it countless times.
#povertytrim is listed how I described it. You didn't do it that way. Quit being a canadian trying to pretend someone is pointing the finger at you so you can speak about yourself positively.I spaced my hardwood floor 1/2" from the walls when I did my basement a couple months back, necessitating both baseboard and 1/4 round to cover the gap. But it'll never create a problem. That's not poverty trim, that's doing actual quality work.