FLOR Home Gym Carpet Flooring Installed!

I made nice progress on the house health club flooring this weekend and put in FLOR carpeting in the complete lounge except for the closet space. And I’m completely thrilled with how they appear! I used the Rush Street FLOR mosaic carpets in black, and I took an opportunity ordering them with out asking for samples first. However my gamble paid off as a result of I really like the way in which they appear!

I nonetheless need to do one thing about that transition monitor, however extra on that in a second.

I am going to add quarter spherical or shoe molding (most likely quarter spherical) to the baseboards to cowl areas like this the place the tiles did not cowl all the way in which to the wall. Reducing strips of carpet that small can be an enormous ache, however 1 / 4 flip will cowl that properly.

Return to the transition monitor. I’ve two on this room – one coming from the hallway and one going into the toilet. My preliminary thought was to match the stain of the one going into the hallway to match the hardwood flooring within the hallway.

However then I’ve this different one going from FLOR’s black carpet tiles to a white marble tile toilet flooring.

So to maintain issues constant I made a decision to dye them each black to match the FLOR carpet tiles. And I’ve examined Matt’s wheelchair on transition lanes, and it rolls over them with ease.

I do know I’ve solely had these carpets for a number of days, however I am completely bought on FLOR carpets. I completely love the way in which they appear.

And putting in them was as simple as a DIY mission may be. I used to be going to take step-by-step footage for a little bit tutorial, however there is not any want. Critically. You place a tile down. You place sticky squares on the again edge. You place one other tile subsequent to it, hooked up to the identical adhesive squares, in order that the 2 tiles stick collectively. Repeat. 😀 And in case you’re putting in wall to wall like I did, simply use a utility knife with a brand new, sharp razor blade and a straight edge to chop the tiles.

Critically, it could not get any simpler, and the result’s actually phenomenal. And whereas it is not precisely immediate gratification, you are able to do a complete room in a day (so long as you do not have to cope with subfloor points, like I did).

I wished a black flooring since it is a house health club, but it surely’s positively too black and too darkish. It makes the room really feel darker, however as a result of the partitions are so brilliant and cheery, I’ve no points with the room feeling a little bit darker.

Cooper, our hyperactive 100-pound canine, has additionally examined it. I used to be leaping on my rebound Saturday night time and I let him come over right here with me. He began working and turning and doing all kinds of sudden begins and stops. None of this had any impact on the carpet squares. They did not come aside (these sticky squares actually are tremendous sticky). They did not transfer or change. They did not arrest. Apart from a number of soiled footprints (he’d been exterior earlier than), they regarded completely fantastic after he was executed enjoying and left the room. And people soiled footprints had been vacuumed.

So I am an enormous fan of FLOR now! They don’t seem to be precisely low cost. I purchased 100 tiles for this room (I believe I am going to have 5 left, which I will be glad to have available in case I want to switch one), and with transport and tax, it got here to only over $1,600.

So it is not an inexpensive choice, however I believe there’s reality to “you get what you pay.” I attempted to go the cheaper route the primary time round and solely spent about $225 on foam tile for the entire room. (Once I purchased them they had been cheaper than they’re now.) And we have all seen how that labored. They did not look so good. The health club tools left actually unhealthy dents within the foam, they usually did not come out even days later. And Cooper blew a gap within the foam flooring the primary time he walked in right here.

However these squares of carpet look nice, match collectively completely (no puzzle-like seams like on foam flooring), and look fairly indestructible. So, though they’re significantly costlier than the froth health club tiles I attempted to make use of initially, I believe the extra expense can be effectively price it. And since they’ll deal with my huge, hyperactive canine, I’ve little question they’re going to deal with Matt’s wheelchair simply fantastic.

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