Saving Wooding Floor

Can we save these wood floors.

Saving wooding floor.

When i purchased the house it had brand new brown berber carpeting in every room except the kitchen. Which made it super easy to remove. You can salvage old wood floors by following the tips we ve gathered below. Refinishing a wood floor is cheaper than putting in nice 50 60 a yard carpeting lessick says.

Besides a properly maintained wood floor can go 20 or 30 years or more before needing to be refinished says lupresto. Saving that old hardwood floor not only makes sense from stylistic and cost perspectives. It also helps reduce the amount of demolition and construction debris sent to landfills. Crazy enough the carpet wasn t professionally installed it was cut and the shoe molding was tacked on top of it.

And it can be sanded and refinished easily six or seven times over its lifetime he says. Many are looking to save money on their hardwood floors so i thought i would share a few ways that you may be able to save some money. Take the plywood sheet into planks next fit them together flat and adhere together using a durable adhesive like glue creating stunning wood floors. Standing water and hardwood flooring don t mix.

For anyone who lives in hurricane and flood prone areas that have historic homes this comes as no surprise. Hardwood flooring may cost you big be on the money saving track and use plywood to save a lot of money you would have spent on the wood flooring.