Guys. Mega problem. I’ve fallen in love with two things – and they can’t co-exist. I’m getting a dog next year. I’m saying this so it happens – because that’s what you’re meant to do with life-long hopes and dreams. Let’s outline how much I’ve wanted one thing and one thing only for my entire life: [...]
Piggy slippers be gone! We have…a laminate kitchen floor. Sunday, we transformed a concrete floor (smeared with remnants of a silverfish genocide) and the trodden-in brownness of ancient carpet underlay. All that grotty stuff that keeps you coming back. As we’d originally planned to install tile, we’d spent about a million years ripping up the [...]
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A funny thing, promising laminate floor before/after photos before (not after) finding the camera’s uploading ingredients. Life before laminate flooring It sucked, obviously. For 70 days I stayed as far from that sickening shag as possible. Never touched it, never sat on it, never let less than a full inch of protective piggy-wear come between me and it. [...]
Strike dysentery from the list. Amongst things you could wish on your worst enemies, an unlevel sub-floor would be most vicious. Wrestling with messy buckets of self-leveling compound is far more punishing than intestinal worms (and does better for your vindictive imagination). Isn’t kneeling for prolonged periods an actual means of torture? Well, we engaged the enemy in [...]
Decision 1 – done. Weighing a long list of laminate floor pros and cons – we sealed our fate and bought 500 square feet of laminate from flooring shop Nucasa. Soon enough we’ll scrap the shag and laminate the living area and bedroom of our ugly baby, and here’s why: Laminate flooring PROS (Or a normal person’s know-nothing guide [...]
As proud new owners of a laminate floor – we didn’t know how nicely we had to treat it, and whether it would be easily damaged while renovating. The product claimed to withstand high traffic – but what did that mean? Would laminate endure a lively Jenga game? Could I resuscitate the nineties and Rollerblade on [...]
(16 days to possession) ‘Vancouver + flooring’ brought Nucasa into our lives. After 3 hours’ flooring research (never having heard of laminate, I made a full list of laminate pros and cons) – we decided it was the perfect floor choice for a big renovation in a small apartment. Then what? Time to compare costs, [...]
