Basement Flooring

Basement Carpet – Carpet a Basement

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Installing basement carpet, or any other type of sub-grade installation, you need to make sure that you have a dry basement. These rooms are typically problem areas for a lot of homes as they are by their sheer nature a moisture magnet due to being underground. If you don’t, there are some precautions that you [...]

Floating Subfloor

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Problems with your basement? Is it nothing more than a cold, damp, unfinished storage room? Don’t feel like you are the only one as you probably have a lot more in common with other homeowners than you imagine when it pertains to your basement. General rule of thumb is if it’s cold and damp it’s [...]

Basement Flooring: Form and Patterns

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Continuing on in our little 3 part design series here on selecting the best basement flooring for your dream room, this would be the third installment which will undertake form and patterns. If you recall the first part in this series dealt with the basics of basement flooring colors. Then came how to choose the [...]

Basement Flooring Colors: Choosing the Right One

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Together as a team, color, form and pattern can either make or break a basement flooring project. Based on the color you choose, the form of the material, or the pattern you claim, the flooring can dominate an entire basement or be part of the scenery to enhance other items you may have in your [...]

Color Design for Basement Flooring

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When you start thinking about design for your basement flooring, the same will always hold true as if you were designing any other flooring. There are three basics that you will need to adhere to: form, pattern and color. Form deals with nothing more than the physical shape of the flooring material that you are planning [...]

Laminate Basement Flooring Design Possibilities

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With laminate basement flooring you truly do have a wide array of design possibilities. When practicality is very important but a primary concern is to be visually appealing, laminate flooring can meet both of these needs and help you stay sane when the budget is tight. When most people think of laminate flooring, one of [...]

The Basics of Tile Basement Flooring

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Tile for basement flooring is an exceptional choice. Big. Small. Rectangular. Square. Way too many colors, shapes and designs to even think of them all. One things for sure, tile floors in basements is never out of style. What we plan on covering this time around here at Basement Flooring Guide is the differences, the [...]

News Flash on Basement Flooring Ideas

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When undertaking a basement renovation, you’ve probably wondered just what basement flooring ideas you might have available. If I’m not the first to tell you let me at least be one of them, basement flooring is risky business. Most factory warranties you’ll read about lead to a fear of imminent destruction by water moisture or [...]

Laminate Basement Flooring Installation

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5 things you need to know about how to laminate basement floors and installing it: 1. Unlike hardwood floors, most laminate can be installed below grade and still carry a manufacturer warranties in doing so. Check the manufacturer warranty though first to ensure it below grade construction is included. 2. Laminate basement flooring needs to [...]

Laminate Basement Flooring

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Some people just love the look of a wood floor. Some people even want to put wood as basement flooring. Although very risky (not impossible, but risky), there are much safer and more durable alternatives than a wood basement floor. Why not consider laminate for your basement flooring instead of the wood floors. Laminate flooring [...]

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