Replacing our carpet with wood flooring

We replaced our living room carpet with a floating lock/groove hardwood floor. Since we opted for the do-it-yourself route, I decided to throw a camera up in the corner and capture a time-lapse if the whole project. Found the video recently and decided to post it for those interested. The process was done in a couple of weekends.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• carpet
• engineered wood flooring
• remodelling
• DIY
• do-it-yourself
• wood floor

[kimkrisrich]

Wow the wooden floor makes it look a lot neater and the rug makes it look messy. I like the color of the wooden floor, what color is it and what type and brand? Is it the glue type or the clip type?

[queuerayzy]

@kimkrisrich - Hi! It was engineered hardwood, clip style (floating on a foam padding, no glue), in a honey color, by Bruce.

Hope that helps!

[kimheejin78]

How did you cut the laminate to get it to be the right size? Also did you use the same moldings as you had before or did you buy them separately? (we have no molding, so thinking we have to buy them). Thanks! this is so inspiring!

[queuerayzy]

@kimheejin78

It's engineered hardwood. It comes in random-length pieces and locks together on the side/ends, so you basically just lay down a row with whole pieces, and at the end of the row you cut the last piece to length. You use therest of the cut piece to start the next row, so the cut ends (without a locking groove) go against the walls.

We replaced our molding with new molding (the wider bottom gave us more room for error around the edges of the room).

Thanks for watching!

[monkeywarehouse]

great team work.... great family

[queuerayzy]

@monkeywarehouse The best family, now +1 and in a new city / house since this video :)

Thanks for watchin!

[ahuertas69]

It was nice to see everybody chip in to help out! Loved how your oldest was feedind you the pieces so you didn't have to keep getting up! Job well done!

[MsGonzofamily]

That was fun to watch! Inspiring.

[Angelmods]

Great work guys, awesome video!

[xavianus]

Great job guys! i've seen to be a family effort!!!!