Install a Pre-Finished Hardwood Floor

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Install Durable and Warranted Pre-finished Hardwood Flooring in Your Kitchen Using Tongue and Groove Joinery for Row-by-row Construction

Think again if you imagine a pre-finished hardware flooring installation is not durable enough to withstand kitchen traffic, children's toys and pets. Today's pre-finished hardwood flooring systems may offer 25-year finish warranties and lifetime structural warranties--not to mention tools, techniques and interlocking tongue and groove joinery that make DIY installation a snap.

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Transcript:
Now, this item on my how to do list is long overdue and my wife Lynn isn't going to stand for one more day on the ceramic tile on our kitchen floors. As for me, I really don't mind it so much and I'm not crazy about what she's got in mind for a replacement.
Honey, what are you doing?
I'm cleaning up juice somebody accidentally spilled.
Come on get up, get up.
No Ron no.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
No, because this floor gets so slippery, honestly we've got to replace this floor. It's not horrible, but I think a wood floor would look so much better.
But wood in the kitchen, I don't like it because it doesn't hold up well to pets, children and water, all three of which we have got here.
The floors that they have now are really great for kitchens. Look why don't I do this you go investigate, I'll get some information. If, in fact, we find that there's a wood floor that would be appropriate for a kitchen and our cutting is great. If not, we'll carpet.
Durah lustre plus urethane, twenty five year finish.
Lifetime structural warranty.
The manufacturer warrants that the finish will not wear through or separate from the wood for twenty five full years.
Well let's do it.
You got your wood floor.
Bye bye tile.
Well now we're going to begin the serious work on this job. .I'm going to try to get this old tile up and I say try because, well I'm sure I'm going to get it up, I'm just not sure how much work it's going to be. Whoo is going to be slow going?

Well, it's time for Plan B, that's certainly not going to work to chip this up so here's what I'm going to try next. I'm going to take a saw with a diamond tipped blade and I'm going to cut through the grout lines between the tile, because what I discovered over there is the tile is glued on top of a sheet of eight inch luan plywood and if I can cut this into sections, I think I can get up underneath that plywood and actually pry this off in large hunks. The only problem with this method is that it's going to generate a lot of dust so I've really got to seal up this room, start taping doors up like this one. I've taken a couple of other dust precautions, got my dust mask on here, got a fan over here in the window that's going to pull some of this dust out. I have attached a vacuum to my circular saw right here. Now, the blade I have in my circular saw is a diamond tipped blade designed specifically for cutting through stone and masonry. It should have no trouble getting through this grout.

Wow,

This is solid oak, it's almost an exact match for what we have in the house. The difference, of course, is the thickness, this new flooring is only five, sixteenth of an inch, this one three quarters. In our case, in remodeling the kitchen, the thinner floor actually turns out better, because it doesn't raise the floor up as much. The transitions into the other room, they're going to be a lot better.

Excellent.

The spaces underneath the countertop, like for the dishwasher, they're not going to be made that much smaller. So I think actually this is actually going to be an advantage right here.

I think it's gorgeous.

Well, I've got Lynn's approval, so it's time to get started and just to make sure I do it right I've asked for a little help.

Hey Buddy, come on in. Glad you're here,thanks for giving me a hand with it.

Sure.

Wood's here.

And how long has the wood been in the house?

Well, you told me to bring it in like three or four days ahead, which I did.

John Kleppe Edd, is a technical consultant for Armstrong Flooring. He explains that the new flooring needs time to acclimate to its surroundings. That means it should have about the same moisture content as the surface it's being installed over. Just to be sure, he checks both with an electronic moisture meter.

So the moisture is good, the flooring and the old floor are close enough, right.

All right.

So where do you start in a room like this? What part of the room do you begin in?

We would normally start an exterior wall.

Why?

Because the exterior walls are the straightest.

OK that makes sense. Wanna go to work.

Yep, I'm ready.