One of the best ways to make your life a whole lot easier when you’re installing flooring in your home is buying wood flooring. These boards already have the finishing coat applied by the manufacturer, so you have one less thing you have to do in the installation process. The finishing coat on this flooring lasts for a while and give the floor planks a beautiful sheen. If you are about to begin a home improvement project that include re-doing your flooring, then you’ll want to consider wood flooring as an option. To cut down on costs you can install the flooring yourself and that’s just one fact you might not know.
1. You Can Complete the Wood Installation Yourself
2. Installation Includes Labor Fees
Just like when you get your car fixed and you have to pay labor fees, you’ll also have to pay labor fees for wood flooring installation. Some people do the installation themselves because they want to save money, but if you feel better knowing a professional is doing the job you should do research and create a budget for the job. When you’re creating the budget include at least half of the budget for costs to install. The smaller the square footage for your flooring the less it will cost for installation. Knowing that you have the labor budgeted will give you peace of mind when you start the flooring installation process. This way you won’t be blindsided by any of the extra charges.
3. Floor Installation Time Frame
Have Questions About How To Install Prefinished Hardwood Flooring?
Installation of a prefinished wood floor is certainly not rocket science. Instead it is more like putting together a puzzle. Like a puzzle you must start with certain steps: checking the moisture in your subfloor, clean out your room, including scraping any excess building materials like drywall mud from your subfloor, and unrolling the 15# felt that you will use as a moisture barrier/underlayment. In reality that paper is there to cut down on squeaks.
These are 3 facts you probably didn’t know about prefinished hardwood flooring installation. Now that you have all this information, you can now select the flooring for your home. Browse our selection of prefinished hardwood flooring to see what fits for your next flooring upgrade.