The thing that saved us - a $10 heat gun from Harbor Freight & Tool. I melted my shoes a little with this puppy, but it sure did help get the floor up!!
This is what got us through the late nights! Go Juice!! Starbucks coffee is my friend!
Look what you can make with scraps - Ethan and Abby had a fun time making novalis flooring towers and tee pees.....
Olivia kept herself very busy "painting" on the art easel...
So bottom line - would I recommend Novalis vinyl planking?? Hells Yes! If you're laying it over existing linoelum, it's so easy. If you're ripping existing flooring up, not so easy. But still worth it in the long run. It looks so much better than what was here. Someday I will post a blog of before pictures when we moved into this house so you can see how far we've come, but that is for a much later date!! For now I leave you so that I can go enjoy my new flooring! Next big projects are finishing the stairs and wine rack - then we're onto putting MORE novalis in the bedrooms upstairs. Til next time, I'm signing off for now. I leave you with the updated pics!
Family Room...
Front Room...
School Room...
Powder room - not done yet as we have to paint the walls red and add wainscotting and a chair rail to the walls. The flooring will be the novalis as well, but we have to take up the toilet and sink so we decided to save this for another day!!
Hallway...
Kitchen...
1 comment:
Ha! I just installed similar flooring in my basement, though it was the Trafficmaster floating vinyl planks rather than the glue-down type.. and we totally made pyramids and tee-pees out of the castoffs, as well. Then we'd "bowl" with the new cast-offs that we cut from the ends of the planks.
Of course, there were no children present, just a bunch of thirty-somethings.
Looks fantastic, btw. Much more work than my installation, I think, but I am reading that the product I used has problems with scuffing, whereas the Novalis does not. We'll see how it holds up.
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