The tile materials that we had have been installed. I'm going to hold out on postings pictures until all of the tile work and flooring has been installed. Or at least until 95% of it is done. So far it looks great and everything is moving along as expected.
The wood floor guys started this morning. They pretty much finished installing the floors on the second floor without a hitch. It turns out though that we can't use the bullnose that the stair maker provided. Since the floors are engineered (Saso Floors from iFloor) they come with their own pre-finished trim pieces. The new bullnose doesn't meet the floors flush, it lays on top kind of like a door threshhold. Its not entirely what we wanted but still looks good. I guess if you start nailing down and anchoring the floating floors you kind of defeat the purpose. Which brings me to the next issue. The first floor has some issues that are easily fixed and just kind of come with the territory of an old house. The old floor deck left a lot to be desired by way of being level. It was actually very wavy and undulating especially over the old highly trafficked areas. So to fix it we sheeted the whole first floor with 1/2" plywwod. It made the problem a lot better but still there are some undulating pockets in areas. So the floor guys are going to have to use self levelling concrete to even out the floor. The other issue comes in the kitchen. When I had my trim guy install the cabinets I had him use pieces of the new floor as shims because I figured the cabinets would sit atop the new wood floors. I guess I was wrong because of the whole floating floor thing the floors have to butt up against the kickplates of the cabinets. Its not the end of the world since we have quarter round trim. It just creates more work for the trim carpenter. C'est la vie.
The wood floor guys started this morning. They pretty much finished installing the floors on the second floor without a hitch. It turns out though that we can't use the bullnose that the stair maker provided. Since the floors are engineered (Saso Floors from iFloor) they come with their own pre-finished trim pieces. The new bullnose doesn't meet the floors flush, it lays on top kind of like a door threshhold. Its not entirely what we wanted but still looks good. I guess if you start nailing down and anchoring the floating floors you kind of defeat the purpose. Which brings me to the next issue. The first floor has some issues that are easily fixed and just kind of come with the territory of an old house. The old floor deck left a lot to be desired by way of being level. It was actually very wavy and undulating especially over the old highly trafficked areas. So to fix it we sheeted the whole first floor with 1/2" plywwod. It made the problem a lot better but still there are some undulating pockets in areas. So the floor guys are going to have to use self levelling concrete to even out the floor. The other issue comes in the kitchen. When I had my trim guy install the cabinets I had him use pieces of the new floor as shims because I figured the cabinets would sit atop the new wood floors. I guess I was wrong because of the whole floating floor thing the floors have to butt up against the kickplates of the cabinets. Its not the end of the world since we have quarter round trim. It just creates more work for the trim carpenter. C'est la vie.
