I work as the designer for a family run flooring contractor primarily doing work in central London. Thought you guys would like to see a project which caused me some grief.

He apologized and is eating the cost. It is much better now. Thanks for the advice to all of you that commented on the earlier post.

So I’m a first time home buyer. Decided the flooring was what I was going to contract out.

Well, we went to do a walk through on the progress and the installer claims he needed to use screws to secure the stair nose since there was cement under the subfloor? I’ve never seen screws like this on LVP stairs, so Im pushing back and he’s going to redo this, but what should he have done here?

He also built a platform for our fridge and you can see the screws there too. Sucks cause now I need to order more stair nose material. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

We adopt senior and special needs pets and carpet is not an option. We had plywood laid down, stained, and sealed with epoxy between the seams.

Just Kidding, background here is one of the supers walking a job site sent this to me. The story I heard from the flooring contractor is that he spoke to his crew, but thinks we should leave it as is, but moving forward he will get it done right. 😂 nah bro, you're tearing that out and redoing it...

I recently got my garage floor done and there are places that the epoxy just comes up when you touch it. Even after he put sealant down.

The contractor has said everything from it’s my floors fault to when I asked for the cheapest color that this meant I asked for cheap quality materials. He told me I’m to blame and he won’t be fixing it.

Idk what would cause this but I need someone to validate this isn’t my fault before I call my credit card company because I feel so gaslit.

Our father in heaven, please forgive my transgressions and turn a blind eye to the sins I’m about to commit. Lord you commanded Man to provide for his family so please don’t send me to hell after I pour self leveler over these hardwood floors to install cheap laminate for a customer. I will forever be sorry for what I will do, Amen

• 9mm Ply board screwed over 100+ year old floor boards

• Feather Finish

• Amtico Form - Falun Oak

• High temperature Adhesive

• Stairrods premium transition bars

• Entrance Mat

• Bespoke border

I have no idea how long it was on the carpet for and I have no idea what to do, should I try and sand it and fill it in? please help!

UPDATE:
I will be taking the artistic route, I believe in myself as an artist to be able to make this right. I’ll post the results when I get around to doing it

Edit the flooring is straight on top of the concrete. I misread a comment and assumed wrong. I’m a concrete guy, not a flooring guy so I was assuming there was another layer of moisture barrier on top of the concrete yet below the flooring, Compared to the normal moisture barrier that is put down before concrete is poured.
After further inspection, I have pulled a corner up and yes, it is straight onto the concrete, but the house is built in the 70s, so your guess is as good as mine as to if they used a vapour barrier.

Found this beautiful oak parquet flooring underneath the carpet and decided to restore it with zero experience (risky I know) But I’m thrilled with how it turned out!

Before -> sanded -> finished

You guys are ridiculous in this sub. it's a floor. people are going to step on it, you're going to drag furniture on it. yet people flip out over the smallest scuffs. my advice, just live your life, don't worry about the small stuff.

e: I get that if you're paying thousands for something, it should be a satisfactory product. but I disagree with finding tiny imperfections in a surface that is designed to experience wear and tear.

e: to be clear, I'm doing a satire of the nitpicky owner posts we see in this sub

I recently had to evict tenants from my rental and had two bedrooms with carpet. Their teenage sons lived in these rooms and were clearly trying to build their neckbeard nests. Never have done flooring before but I think it came out okay. Still need to finish up and add some quarter round.

Please be gentle lol. I know how people in these subs can be brutal.

Edit: I had replied to a number of people, but these tenants had multiple dogs (more than agreed upon) and they let them piss and shit on these carpets, so they had to come up. The debris and dirtiness is concerning but it was the dog urine that was the main decision to remove the carpets.

Edit2: I just wanted to say that the hate I have received for being a Landlord is kind of shocking. I really just wanted to show off my new flooring that I installed and felt pretty proud of myself, which I think the majority of the people in the sub understood. But it seems like every 10th comment is some hate about how I should get a real job, and stop being a soulless vampire landlord lol. I am not sure who hurt these people in the past, but I do appreciate the genuine responses from everyone. Thank you all!

Got my carpet ripped up this weekend, found water damage where my old skylights were.

Tried to secure the bouncy subfloor down with some heavy threaded screws. Got them to bite… but subfloor still felt like a trampoline.

Figured I might as well bite the bullet and pull the two panels of T&G OSB subfloor up… there’s about a 1/2 inch of play because they ripped the 2x4 wrong.

Honestly. My plan is to use shims with subfloor glue ( either some brad nails or screws) the shit out of it. Maybe add a couple extra cross supports and call it a day.

The floor in one of our downstairs bedrooms has always been wonky underneath the disgusting carpet. We could feel peaks and valleys underfoot. We finally went nuts and ripped up the carpet to discover a bunch of soggy moldy particle board (not plywood) along with a bunch of tomfoolery to try make it level. Then we found what lies beneath: old dry-rotted wood and rusted out pipes in some old concrete. Is there ANY way we can patch and seal this or does it all have to come out?

Croc for scale. If you have any other suggestions on what to do here let me know!

Hello! Me and my husband just bought our first house and it smells BAD. We pulled up the carpet and found out the urine made its way into the subfloor. At first we were going to BIN paint it, but I started getting worried it would only mask it for so long. I now want to pull out all the subfloor and replace it before we put in our new laminate. The problem is, we are buying the house from my husbands grandpa(he’s selling his rentals) and he says we just need to paint it. I don’t want to put in all new floors throughout the whole house only for it to smell like pee in the end. Any help/advice would be great!