This post explains what steps need to be taken to prepare your home for the installation of your new tile or hardwood flooring. Don’t just wait for the wood/tile floor installers to arrive and create havoc in your home.
Simple preparations and a little knowledge will make your project faster and help with all the dust, mess, fuss, and damage that wood floor installers will inevitably (and often unavoidably) cause. No matter what your floor installation company tells you the more you can do beforehand the better.
- Dust. Dust is the #1 problem when removing the floors you already have. Most floor installers will take minimum preparations to contain the dust. Not because they don’t care, but they do not have the tools needed to keep this dust under control. You can seal off rooms that will not be sanded, and cover the doorways and A/C vents with plastic and masking tape. If you would like to totally remove the problem of dust and time, call us for more information at (512) 774-0933
- Remove doors. Most floor installers will remove your doors but they will not safely store the doors. Here are some tips to help keep them safe: separating each door in the stack with a blanket and taking the doors to a room where the floors are not being worked on.
- Cover any wall portrait or decor. Any wall portrait, collectible, TV or decor that you are concerned about getting messed up or broken, cover it or take it out of the area being worked on. Even if you are going with dustless tile/floor removal it can never hurt to protect your things. When removing floors, especially tile, pieces of the floor or tile will fly as it breaks so it will give you piece of mind that your things are going to stay safe.
