Rich Schroeder
painting floors
for those of you who paint the floors in your rentals, do you need to prime it first? I'm going to paint the floors in my rental, and there are quite a few spots that are bare wood. Wondering if an oil based paint wou...
Miller Josh
Maple Flooring
I have a low end home we are completely rehabbing. The flooring in the family and dining room is maple that has had nothing done to it for probably 30 years. Basically all the finish has worn off and stain spots. Shou...
Jason Merchey
Flooring Choices
I have a rental in the not-so-great part of North Charleston, SC. It has had VCT on the floor for about 8 years, and it's fairly light colored. It hasn't been sealed and polished well. I think it's toast. A tenant is...
Gary Jones
Replacement Flooring
We have a nice SFR property which we target to professional couples or families here in Oklahoma. We have a good quality blue carpet in the home currently and are trying to decide whether to keep it, replace it wi...
Matt Laird
Bamboo Floors
I have 2500 sq./ft. of Shaw bamboo flooring in a house. It was cleaned using Murphy's oil soap, causing a film on it. It also has several scratches, basically needs to be refinished. Anyone know how to proceed in t...
Jonas Beiler
Shaky floor
I was in a house yesterday that had very unstable floors in two second story bedrooms. Sort of like a trampoline effect when you jumped on them (maybe not quite that bad but it was bad enough that you could easily see...
Josh L.
Upstairs flooring
What's popular for upstairs flooring now?I'm getting a two story townhome ready for rent with tile in the most trafficked areas in the kitchen and adjoining dining room downstairs And, there's carpeting in the upst...
Shadonna N.
Hardwood Floors
Does anyone have a recommendation for hardwood floors. I am not talkig about Lowe's, Home Depot. or Lumber Liquidatos who charge $3.00+/sq ft. I am in the DMV so I do go to a few places that are a few cents cheaper....
Steven Bays
Creaky floors
What have you all done to fix this. I am owner occupant 2nd floor and the creaky floors are bothering me from walking. I haven't seen anything without drilling from under neath but that would put a bunch of holes in t...
Terry Royce
Sloping floors
My girlfriend just bought a rehab house that we found that was built in 1850, the floors slope towards the middle and the inspector and contractors have not been concerned.
However, I've started to worry more. Is thi...