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Question: For a more affordable kitchen upgrade on a budget does new counters + flooring + keeping old cabinets = good idea? Answer: Yes, if the cabinets are in good repair—the doors open and close, they’re hanging straight, the drawers operate smoothly—then yes. New flooring is a great upgrade if a labor intensive one. Reason is that [...]
Kitchens are notorious for having multiple layers of flooring one right on the of the other. This can impact new work, especially adding new flooring to the kitchen. To find out how many layers of flooring you have—and how thick they are—remove an HVAC register. With this removed you can see all the layers [...]
Mark and Theresa shared a quick fix for repairing basement cracks and how to get started staining wood on NBC’s The 10! Show. View more videos at: http://nbcphiladelphia.com.
“Formica” is one of those words like “Popsicle,” “Xerox,” or “Band-Aid,” words that are so popular that they’ve come to stand for an entire category of products. Band-Aid for example, refers to “plastic adhesive bandage.” And each of these brands, for a variety of reasons, has earned the top spot—generally because they were the first [...]
Sometimes the best way to describe something complicated—like the science and technology that goes into creating a dependable pre-finished hardwood floor—is to go simple. And in so doing, go big. Lumber Liquidators has done just that with their giant move to increase the 50 year warranty on their Bellawood finish to a century—and it is [...]
Life gives the gifts of scratches and dents, and while you can treasure the memories of those moments, you might not want the evidence to last. Especially when you have guests coming over. There are a few simple ways to touch-up little nicks and scratches in your flooring, appliances, tile, and more. No, you don’t [...]
Question: I am planning to take up carpeting and install hardwood floors over a plywood subfloor. The floor squeaks when we walk on it. Will installing the new floor fix that or will my new floors squeak too? Answer: There’s a very good chance your new floor will squeak too if you don’t fix the subfloor [...]
Pat writes: I found you through HGTVPro.com. Our primary home is in Massachusetts, but we are renovating our home in Florida. We are ripping up the carpet in our 1986 home down there and installing wood flooring. I am researching wood flooring on-line and have found 3/4? pre-finished solid Tigerwood. I have visited a local [...]
Question: My house is about 90 years old. It needs work. As I remodel I try to keep things as close to original as I can, i.e I try to match moldings, use the same flooring, and so on. My current project is the porch. The floor boards are coming loose and I know I [...]
Ever since the ancient Egyptians started putting decorative tile in their homes, tile has been showing up in houses throughout the world. Tile actually accounts for 24 percent of installed flooring. When you think about how ceramic tile can last 50 years, and carpet can maybe muscle out about 10 good years of family wear-and-tear, [...]
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