Sunday 8 August 2010

New Floor

We’re replacing the floors in the bedrooms – when we bought our house it had mouldy seagrass carpeting, which would be okay except for the mould. We ripped that stuff up – it makes great mulch for the garden! But under the seagrass was warped, crumbling particle board.

At first I thought we could repair the old sub-floor – I sealed it,

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and tried to level it with a levelling compound so we would have a flat surface to install a floating floor on

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But in the end, it wasn’t saveable, and we ripped out all the sub floor

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and had a friend of ours put in new boards

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Then we started installing bamboo floating floorboards

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It was hard work learning how to bang the planks in properly – they snap together – no nails or glue required. The instructions say “tap lightly with a hammer”, but we had to bang them in really hard.

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Littletree did some of the measuring

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and finally the finished product!

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We love it; it looks great :) It’s now become Littletree’s favourite room – probably because the floor is smooth and there’s no furniture in there yet, so she puts on Abba songs and dances like crazy in there.

14 comments:

  1. Wow! That looks really good. I love that bamboo is a renewable product and has so many uses.

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  2. yeah, bamboo is great, looks great too, and you did it yourself so that saves $$ Littletree measuring....so cute!

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  3. Well done the floor looks great and will be so much nicer to dance to Abba on :-)

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  4. Your new floor looks amazing. :)

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  5. I just love how children can get so much pleasure from an empty room. How durable is bamboo compared to a wooden floating floor. Our family room has a wooden floor and the scratches drive me crazy.

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  6. it's supposedly more durable than some kinds of wood, less than others. it comes with a 20 year warranty tho. And we chose this after reading a lot of bamboo flooring reviews - it seems there's a few brands around (esp in the US) that scratch like crazy. Before I bought this one, I actually took my car keys out and tried to gouge the heck out of their display sample... didn't scratch at all. So I figured it's good. time will tell.

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  7. I *love* your floors! I love the different colors. My uncle put bamboo in his house, all blonde colored. It does dent/scratch easily, but unlike wood, it just looks like its supposed to be that way because of the 'grain'. Great job!!

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  8. Hey majikfaerie! Hadn't visited your blog in a long time so I thought I'd pop in. This post made me giggle as I was *just* re-reading a certain notorious thread on a certain notorious board that centered around your flooring! ;)

    Anyway good to see ya!

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  9. why would I want to be reminded of that and why would anyone want to read it?

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Thanks for your lovely words, witty banter and entertaining discussion :)