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A Saturday Morning Read: ๐Ÿง"the sweetly precise quadrupedal science of hard surface flooring installation" ๐Ÿ”จ ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿงช
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A Saturday Morning Read: ๐Ÿง"the sweetly precise quadrupedal science of hard surface flooring installation" ๐Ÿ”จ ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿงช

LVP son = *luxury vinyl plank*

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Feb 22, 2025
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A Saturday Morning Read: ๐Ÿง"the sweetly precise quadrupedal science of hard surface flooring installation" ๐Ÿ”จ ๐Ÿฆ๐Ÿงช
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1. Now the main thing is is that thereโ€™s a zero tolerance on these floors bub,

I mean every single one has to be completely flush, I mean dead on, or else they slide and clink around the further you go out.

Itโ€™s a nightmare. I wish my sister would have called me about hers.

Use this little wedge and sledge right here.

See the shim on the walls. Thatโ€™s just to give it some room when we set that trim. You gotta leave like a quarter inch all the way around the edge of the room or in the summer time when flooring expands youโ€™ll get like a 4 inch bubble in the middle of the floor out of nowhere!

And itโ€™s alarming to people, they think thereโ€™s something under there! But thereโ€™s nothing under there, its just the expansion from the summer time heat

Now youโ€™re cutting them a little too long on the edge son. So what you do is just mark it back

Just adjust a little like thisโ€ฆ

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