flor tile carpet::I had a rather harrowing drive home during a torrential downpour.When i turned onto one road i could see water going over the surface.
I decided to try another road home and once again i found myself very happy to have all wheel drive as i had to drive over gravel and pieces of pavement that had been washed onto the road.
I did an inspection of our house and was surprised to find a large puddle in our basement.
Sometimes during heavy rain an old footing drain backs up into the basement and i assumed this is where the water was coming from.
Then i made a big mistake.
After some inspection and consideration we decided we had to pull out the old carpet and tile and gut the walls along the flooded section of walls.
We found mold starting behind the pine boards on the wall and the carpet was really really gross.
After doing some research we decided to try using instead of a traditional carpet.
Our reasoning was that although flor was more expensive, we could save the installation cost by doing it ourselves.
We would also be able to pull up individual tiles to clean and dry in the event of future flooding or kid spills.
After another set of tiles we found a and placed our order.
They arrive less than 2 weeks later in a large stack of boxes.
Of all my diy projects this may have been the funnest.
We were very pleased with the end result which has held up well to lots of foot traffic.
I am amazed at how well the tiles stay down!
I can pull our couch and chair around with the tiles budging an inch, but if need be i can easily pull up a tile for cleaning.
If you can use it, please post a comment and let me know how your project works out.
If you have any questions about installing flor on concrete, ask away.
Here is a picture of our finished product.
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