Calculating the Cost of a Brick Floor Project Material: The first thing you have to do when determining a brick flooring project is to understand the cost of the material. This will range from roughly

Tile Removal Tools for Ceramic Floors Removing ceramic or stone floor tile is fairly simple, though it’s not necessarily easy. In fact, it’s backbreaking work. However, you can save yourself

How to Paint a Plywood Floor For floors that any budget can afford, why not try plywood floors – painted to suit your style. Yes, plywood. You can make common plywood into something special! Be sure

How to Seal a Marble Floor Marble is a fairly porous natural stone material that readily absorbs moisture, which means that it can be stained quite easily. But protecting marble against moisture intrusion,

Cleaning a Brick Floor Brick can be maintained with relative ease, but it has to be cared for on a regular basis to keep it looking its best. For everyday brick floor cleaning, the floor should be swept

How to Remove Oil Stains from a Concrete Floor Let’s see…you were changing the oil on your lawnmower (or worse, your car) and the old oil somehow missed the catch pan without you noticing.

Slate Flooring Pros and Cons Natural slate has the ability to bring unique and powerful beauty to a flooring installation, combining the functional durability of hard tile with the awe-inspiring essence

Do You Need To Screed? A Simple Definition. Basic Definition Screeding means to drag a long, flat board across a pliable material to smooth it down. This also means that the board you use for this purpose

A History of Flooring: Ancient Floor Coverings A lot of flooring materials today are called “traditional” or “timeless.” In some cases, this is just marketing language, but in other

Staining Concrete Means New Life for Ugly, Bland Floors Is there anything less attractive than a monolithic slab of gray concrete? Rather than going to extremes such as breaking up the concrete or adding

Commercial Flooring Considerations With commercial flooring, the first thing that you want to do is consider the specific application that it will be used for. Flooring for a high traffic hallway has different

Floor Installation Budget Tight? Here Are 4 Solutions… Times are tough, and today it seems that everybody is raiding their kids’ piggy banks for more money. Back in the salad days of home renovation,

Kwik Tile, Edge Tile, and the State of Floating Tile Floors Update The Edge Tile and Kwik Tile floating tile floors are both dead. I first covered Kwik Tile in 2011 and since that time I have seen nothing

How to Repair Gaps Between Floorboards With older wood tongue-and-groove flooring, gaps will inevitably develop between the boards. The problems with this are numerous. First, it is unsightly and it makes

Tile to Wood Floor Transitions: Bridging the Gap Floor coverings ideally should continue from room to room throughout the house with no interruptions or gaps. In a perfect world, one floor is installed