Respect, I hope this doesn't get taken the wrong way. The fact you're a woman with a family, dominating renovations. Really helps boost my confidence as a man to take on DIYs. We need more of this plus your explanations are amazing. Thank you!
I’m an overt thinker with instructions if they’re not explained right. And you nailed exactly what I needed to know. It was the little details that really came in clutch. Love this!
I think I may actually pull this off! Thank you. I'm nervous to start but I love this video. Helps me gain a little more confidence to pull the plug and JUST DO IT! And the fact your family is all involved makes me want to make it a family thing. I appreciate this! Thank you!
I love your videos! As a woman who loves wood working and auto mechanics, it is so great to see another woman/mom/wife doing such great projects. I am just getting started myself, your videos really help me learn as a beginner
This beginner's guide was SO HELPFUL! I used this video to redo one of our upstairs rooms from start to finish. Thank you for your numerous helpful hints. Our room looks great, I learned a ton, and we saved so much money doing it ourselves.
Just finding your channel but happy I did! I’m buying a home and there’s tons of old worn out carpet throughout the home that I want to replace. Also there’s a 3/4 finished laminate floor in the kitchen I need to finish up! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Much appreciated
out of all the mens vinylplank flooring videos You r The Best Of Showing And Explaining !!! I Thk u For Your Info And Displaying Effects !!! I Will Look Into Other Videos You Have !! Great Teacher U R !! ?
Ok, I find it AWESOME that you are doing the demo and your husband comes in and vacuums! Kudos to you for picking the right man rather than macho dude! I am not trying to redo flooring, just trying to refurbish a tv bench into a sitting bench. I found some pieces of flooring at the Habitat for Humanity re-store that I thought I would use as the top and just glue them down. I just wanted to cut the laminate to size and cut off tongue and groove. I only have a 40 year old craftsman jig saw so just can’t cut it accurate enough. Going to try the utility knife. Thanks for your clear explanations.
Very helpful video..I plan to install LVP in bathroom. As you mentioned nothing heavy should sit on top of the plank. How do I go about installing around the toilet?
Hello... Love the flooring... I have just took up my old floor and replaced with 1 in boards and I am now about to put down some of the snap linoleum thank you for the video I like how you explained and showed. I will be starting tomorrow on my living room. Then I will move on to daughters room.. Brandon from wylie
Thanks for your video! I’m planning to do new flooring in my entire house with vinyl planks. I have to start with 2 bedrooms in particular, but my bedrooms and hallway all have weird angles at the threshold. I’m having such a hard time calculating how to start (if I need to cut down the starting row or not) because of this. It’s driving me bonkers, but I’ll get it figured out. 🙃😆
Fabulous!! This is the Home Depot flooring color we also chose, and it's great to see how it will actually look. Thank you Anika!!! I noticed you did not use the underlayment. Can you share why you chose not to?
Thank you! I love the color. Like I mentioned in the video, Lifeproof flooring comes with underlayment attached so you don’t have to worry about it. One less step!
Hi Thanks for the video. I am in the process of laying vinyl plank over existing tile in my bathroom. The threshold has a very small lip. Do I need to grind it down to make it flushed with tile prior to laying down the plank? Thanks
Thank you so much for sharing, my biggest fear are the end pieces, and how to make it look dimensional. Will have to go back and review the formula of math, 😢 Any suggestions on Hallways?
Was the pre-installed underpayment enough cushion? Or do you feel like an additional underpayment would have been better? Getting ready to install my own
Thinking about doing my first floor in the basement.... I have a lot of our furniture/fridge (that can't come out of the room) piled on one side of the room. Can I install half the room and then move the stuff onto the Vinyl Flooring, and then finish the flooring on the other side? Appreciate the help!!
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I was encouraged and wished to do it by myself following your instruction). After I remove the carpet of my living room, I found out there is gap between the skirting board and the floor (cement currently). the gap has both horizontal and vertical dimension. I am concerned that even I would use spacer to fix the floor when I do the installation, the floor will not be stable after I remove the spacer and use beaning (because of the depth (i.e. horizontal dimension into the wall)). I am wondering whether you even experienced such case and what solution I would use to deal with this?
sorry you're having resistance, they have text support available and phone numbers too: Scroll to "Online order support" on this page and they should be able to help. Good luck! www.homedepot.com/c/customer_service
Once the flooring has all been installed before you caulk and put down the baseboards. The spacers help maintain expansion space, and minimizes floor movement during installation
good video. I'm having a problem with kitchen floor. the 3 or 4 short pieces of vinyl between sink cab and island (3 pieces about 3 feet long) are sliding toward the sink and big gap is showing at edge of island. I can push them back under the island with friction but the foot traffic goes toward and then stops at sink, pulling those short boards, so it will keep hapenning. Wondering what to do to stop them from moving? only permanent fix i can think of might be to install a strip across the base of the sink cab right behind the kick plate as a stop for the vinyl (if the boards even go that far) but I have custom laquered nailed in kick plate 5 feet long under sink cab base and worried about damaging it. I dont know if construction glue at the end of the gaps and/or in the side grooves under the isalnd would work. If it doesnt hold ill have a mess to deal with.. Any ideas? thanks. I guess i could ask my cabinet maker to come and take off the kick plate as a last resort but might take several months to get him.
You did a fantastic job and really looks wonderful. I knew vinyl flooring would look nice in my new house but I made 2 major mistakes: I cheaped out on the flooring and hired my idiot brother to install it. It looks horrible!
Can you install this floor on hardwood floor? I have a good hardwood floor but kids are damaging it so that it why I want to install life proof vinyl on it. Is it doable?
Can you do an update video of how the flooring has held up… I’m thinking of going with lifeproof flooring and would love to hear your review/feedback. Thanks!
Absolutely!! It is doing great! It has held up to lots of furniture being dragged across - because kids. We also have a rower and treadmill on the floor and no problems at all so far.
What an amazing job you and your family has done!!!! So awesome!! Can you tell me what that metal strip is called? The one you used before the floor reducers?? Thank you so much and again, fantastic, amazing job!!!!!
If you find old linoleum in your home, especially if it dates from the 50's to the 80's, please test for asbestos. Old lino used to have asbestos backing
Question…did you have to peel off the underpayment before adhering to stairs? This is one of the better videos that I’ve seen for LVP installation. I’m about to tackle the entire upstairs and 2 landings on already refinished stairs. The landings just need the LVP. I’m a little nervous. I have about 1150 SF to do which includes bedrooms, hallway and bathrooms and closets. Thanks for a great video that is inspiring for beginners
Hi Jessica, you don't need to remove the underlayment for the stairs. I actually have a separate video all about the stair installation which has a little more detail. ua-cam.com/video/WfKmZk0Z8qo/v-deo.html You got this! Its a great leg exercise but it is totally doable. All the best!
@@Anikasdiylife I just finished putting down my bathroom floor. Thanks to your videos I did it and it came out pretty good. Thank you 🙏🏼 btw do you have a video on how to set up the table to cut wood? I just used a chair and didn’t have clamps. Not sure how to set up.
If the floor is not leveled out (low spots filled) the floor will move up and down when you walk on it and the joints will fail and make a cracking sound when walked on.
@@Anikasdiylife typical is 3/16 over 10 feet. More and you will have hallow spots and the joints coming apart after a while. Clicking when you walk on it which can get very annoying.
You did a good job. However, one negative critique is you didn't stagger the offsets more. Your offsets align every-other-row so it looks less natural and you see the offset lines more as a result.
Thank you for pointing that out kindly. It is not staggered for about half the room (and I definitely am not a fan of that). By the time i realized what was happening, it was too late. I didn't want to redo the entire area.
Respect, I hope this doesn't get taken the wrong way. The fact you're a woman with a family, dominating renovations. Really helps boost my confidence as a man to take on DIYs. We need more of this plus your explanations are amazing. Thank you!
Not at all! Thank you!
Now I’m convinced!! Gonna do my home myself!
I am a woman from Pakistan and I do all these diy projects by myself too. Thank you for giving me a boost Anika.
Nice and respectful comment 💜
What does her being a woman have to do with it? Explain yourself.
I’m an overt thinker with instructions if they’re not explained right. And you nailed exactly what I needed to know. It was the little details that really came in clutch. Love this!
I think I may actually pull this off! Thank you. I'm nervous to start but I love this video. Helps me gain a little more confidence to pull the plug and JUST DO IT! And the fact your family is all involved makes me want to make it a family thing. I appreciate this! Thank you!
I love your videos! As a woman who loves wood working and auto mechanics, it is so great to see another woman/mom/wife doing such great projects. I am just getting started myself, your videos really help me learn as a beginner
Wow, thank you! That really means a lot and I'm so glad you're getting great value from the content!
You just gave me the confidence to do my floors ... 👏👏👏😍
This beginner's guide was SO HELPFUL! I used this video to redo one of our upstairs rooms from start to finish. Thank you for your numerous helpful hints. Our room looks great, I learned a ton, and we saved so much money doing it ourselves.
I'm so glad! Enjoy the room!
Just finding your channel but happy I did! I’m buying a home and there’s tons of old worn out carpet throughout the home that I want to replace. Also there’s a 3/4 finished laminate floor in the kitchen I need to finish up! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Much appreciated
It looks so pretty, especially the stairs. This video makes me feel like my family and I can do this!! 🥰
out of all the mens vinylplank flooring videos You r The Best Of Showing And Explaining !!! I Thk u For Your Info And Displaying Effects !!! I Will Look Into Other Videos You Have !! Great Teacher U R !! ?
Great tips on every single detail didn't miss anything... We needed the staircase as well!!!
Good job... fun family project
Thank you!!! 🥰
Thanks so much! I have recently published a detailed video only about the staircase if you want to watch that.
Very Good Directions and what a Pleasant Lady! Thank you so much for your video!
Thank you so much!
This was great! Just what I needed to see because I’ll be adding flooring to my basement soon. Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻
Glad you found it helpful!
Great job! I really need this tutorial. I am excited about laying my floor now. Girl power!!
You got this!
thank you for showing everything in your video ...when you were struggling and succeeding! i really enjoyed this i might try my entryway..
What a nice job and attention to detail including your instructions. Thanks.
Oh mylanta!!! Thank you for explaining the tongue side cause that was driving me up the wall!!
Pretty, smart and handy: what a Lady!!!
Thanks for the video, well done.
Ok, I find it AWESOME that you are doing the demo and your husband comes in and vacuums! Kudos to you for picking the right man rather than macho dude! I am not trying to redo flooring, just trying to refurbish a tv bench into a sitting bench. I found some pieces of flooring at the Habitat for Humanity re-store that I thought I would use as the top and just glue them down. I just wanted to cut the laminate to size and cut off tongue and groove. I only have a 40 year old craftsman jig saw so just can’t cut it accurate enough. Going to try the utility knife. Thanks for your clear explanations.
Great Video and tips. I think you gave me courage to do this!!!
Love the time you have taken to share these learning opportunities for me. Wish I watched this BEFORE I tried the first time!
Thank you for a great detailed video!!! I’m inspired to do my floor! I’ll be in touch with questions along the way. Thanks!
You guys make it look so easy! Looks fantastic
Thanks for the tutorial, I am getting ready to lay flooring.👋🏼 thank you your floors look wonderful.
Thank you and all the best!
Great video... thank you!!!! Awesome tips, too.
This was the best video I could find. Very descriptive. Keep up the good work
Just bought LVT for my whole upstairs! Thanks for the tips!
You are amazing thanks for your perfect explanation 👏🏻
Elegant video! It was fun watching the "simple" steps for a floor make-over. Fun family activity! Great job, Well done!
Very helpful video..I plan to install LVP in bathroom. As you mentioned nothing heavy should sit on top of the plank. How do I go about installing around the toilet?
You should cut the flooring around the toilet. Then you can add a seal and caulk to close the gap
Hello... Love the flooring... I have just took up my old floor and replaced with 1 in boards and I am now about to put down some of the snap linoleum thank you for the video I like how you explained and showed. I will be starting tomorrow on my living room. Then I will move on to daughters room..
Brandon from wylie
I am so impressed thank you for posting this video
You are very welcome
GASP! It’s Mr. Anika! :) I don’t think I’ve seen him in a video before!
Whoever helps out gets to be in the videos LOL.
thank you for your understanding
Great video! Thank you for the awesome walkthrough, Anika!
Thank you so much for the video, we had inspired a lot that will motivate me to be able to do my dining room my kitchen.😊
Thanks for your video! I’m planning to do new flooring in my entire house with vinyl planks. I have to start with 2 bedrooms in particular, but my bedrooms and hallway all have weird angles at the threshold. I’m having such a hard time calculating how to start (if I need to cut down the starting row or not) because of this. It’s driving me bonkers, but I’ll get it figured out. 🙃😆
Fabulous!! This is the Home Depot flooring color we also chose, and it's great to see how it will actually look. Thank you Anika!!! I noticed you did not use the underlayment. Can you share why you chose not to?
Thank you! I love the color. Like I mentioned in the video, Lifeproof flooring comes with underlayment attached so you don’t have to worry about it. One less step!
@@Anikasdiylife how’s it holding up?
Amazing video! Thanks a lot!!! ❤
Thank you too!
Phenomenal video Mama!! Well done.
Amazing video and great tips, I will definitely be getting a sample of the Dusk Cherry!
Thank you!!
turned out to look beautiful great work .
great tips. thanks.
You bet!
Hi
Thanks for the video. I am in the process of laying vinyl plank over existing tile in my bathroom. The threshold has a very small lip. Do I need to grind it down to make it flushed with tile prior to laying down the plank?
Thanks
Thank you so much for sharing, my biggest fear are the end pieces, and how to make it look dimensional. Will have to go back and review the formula of math, 😢
Any suggestions on Hallways?
Was the pre-installed underpayment enough cushion? Or do you feel like an additional underpayment would have been better? Getting ready to install my own
Yes I think it was enough and we love it so far!
Thank you for this video. It helped me so much!!
Great video, thank you!
Glad you liked it!
good work Ankita family 🙏
Thank you. And it’s Anika
Thinking about doing my first floor in the basement.... I have a lot of our furniture/fridge (that can't come out of the room) piled on one side of the room. Can I install half the room and then move the stuff onto the Vinyl Flooring, and then finish the flooring on the other side? Appreciate the help!!
I think you can do that. You just have to be super careful to not damage the edges of the unfinished floor.
Good job 👍
Very informative 😊
Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I was encouraged and wished to do it by myself following your instruction). After I remove the carpet of my living room, I found out there is gap between the skirting board and the floor (cement currently). the gap has both horizontal and vertical dimension. I am concerned that even I would use spacer to fix the floor when I do the installation, the floor will not be stable after I remove the spacer and use beaning (because of the depth (i.e. horizontal dimension into the wall)). I am wondering whether you even experienced such case and what solution I would use to deal with this?
Thanks for the tips. They are very helpful. What color do you use for your wall?
You’re welcome 😊 Walls are SW Repose Gray at 50%
Hello great job! Well explained video l. Can you please share the color you used on your walls the grey color thank you !😊
Awesome video, nice and simple. I plan to do some flooring here will a multi tool be sufficient to making cutouts?
Love it you guys did a wonderful job!👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Thank you so much!!
nice job congratulations
flooring job looks great >
sorry you're having resistance, they have text support available and phone numbers too: Scroll to "Online order support" on this page and they should be able to help. Good luck! www.homedepot.com/c/customer_service
Great video! Can you tell me what color is that floor?
This is Dusk Cherry
Did you check for asbestos?
Nice job!
Thank you! Cheers!
Awesome work!! I really love the paint in your walls, can you please tell me what is the name of the paint.
It is Repose Gray from Sherwin Williams
Thank you!! You are a blessing, have a nice weekend with your beautiful family ❤️
I really enjoyed this video. Question. How long did it take to lay the flooring in the kitchen? A day?
I would say a little more than a day but we weren't working constantly because... kids...
Thanks for the video, from where you bought the stairs wood matching your LVP?
Also from Home Depot. Its a special order but the flooring people were helpful to get it all ordered.
Installing this exact color in a few days. Also a woman don't the work. Can't wait for my new dog friendly floors!!!
YOu did so good!
Thank you
Hi at what point did you remove the 5mm spacers and what happens after you remove them?
Once the flooring has all been installed before you caulk and put down the baseboards. The spacers help maintain expansion space, and minimizes floor movement during installation
Good job. Thank you gal..
Great video!
Quick question: does this flooring require vapor barrier?
It’s attached to the back of the Lifeproof vinyl plank.
good video. I'm having a problem with kitchen floor. the 3 or 4 short pieces of vinyl between sink cab and island (3 pieces about 3 feet long) are sliding toward the sink and big gap is showing at edge of island. I can push them back under the island with friction but the foot traffic goes toward and then stops at sink, pulling those short boards, so it will keep hapenning. Wondering what to do to stop them from moving? only permanent fix i can think of might be to install a strip across the base of the sink cab right behind the kick plate as a stop for the vinyl (if the boards even go that far) but I have custom laquered nailed in kick plate 5 feet long under sink cab base and worried about damaging it. I dont know if construction glue at the end of the gaps and/or in the side grooves under the isalnd would work. If it doesnt hold ill have a mess to deal with.. Any ideas? thanks. I guess i could ask my cabinet maker to come and take off the kick plate as a last resort but might take several months to get him.
Oh my hell get to the installation!
patience Dan! :)
You did a fantastic job and really looks wonderful. I knew vinyl flooring would look nice in my new house but I made 2 major mistakes: I cheaped out on the flooring and hired my idiot brother to install it. It looks horrible!
Good information 👍🏻
Looks really nice job done!!… if you If you lived close to us, you would hire them to do that job for us.🤔👍🏼
Haha!!
Much respect - tyvm
Can you install this floor on hardwood floor? I have a good hardwood floor but kids are damaging it so that it why I want to install life proof vinyl on it. Is it doable?
Good job Thanks...
Can you do an update video of how the flooring has held up… I’m thinking of going with lifeproof flooring and would love to hear your review/feedback. Thanks!
Absolutely!! It is doing great! It has held up to lots of furniture being dragged across - because kids. We also have a rower and treadmill on the floor and no problems at all so far.
Does dusk cherry lean orange?
What did you use on the stairs where it’s white? Is that wallpaper? Thanks!
^would love the answer to this as well
What an amazing job you and your family has done!!!! So awesome!! Can you tell me what that metal strip is called? The one you used before the floor reducers?? Thank you so much and again, fantastic, amazing job!!!!!
It comes with the reducers. And thank you!
@@Anikasdiylife I totally realized that when I opened my reducers up 😂😂 I appreciate you!
How did you do the stair lip?
How does hammering the long end of the board down on to the previously laid board lock it in? I'm struggling
Inspiring!
Can you start laying the floor from a room then living room and meet? And also why is it not good to finish with a short plank?
Yes. You can have the two floors meet but you will have to use a transition like I did in the entryway and family room.
Thanks
Welcome!
Nice thank u.
Welcome 😊
Why you cut the first plank of tounge is you said towards the wall?
If you find old linoleum in your home, especially if it dates from the 50's to the 80's, please test for asbestos. Old lino used to have asbestos backing
Thanks for the tip
Question…did you have to peel off the underpayment before adhering to stairs?
This is one of the better videos that I’ve seen for LVP installation. I’m about to tackle the entire upstairs and 2 landings on already refinished stairs. The landings just need the LVP. I’m a little nervous. I have about 1150 SF to do which includes bedrooms, hallway and bathrooms and closets. Thanks for a great video that is inspiring for beginners
Hi Jessica, you don't need to remove the underlayment for the stairs. I actually have a separate video all about the stair installation which has a little more detail. ua-cam.com/video/WfKmZk0Z8qo/v-deo.html
You got this! Its a great leg exercise but it is totally doable. All the best!
Thought the manufacturers instructions said to lay it from left to right and with the groove side against the wall. Am I missing something?
Probably a dumb question, but.....how come the stair planks don't need 1/4" room for expansion like the floor planks do?
what if the floor is 12x24 vinyl tile look, do I still have to make sure the last piece is not under 8 inches?
Yes. Always have to make sure of that.
@@Anikasdiylife I just finished putting down my bathroom floor. Thanks to your videos I did it and it came out pretty good. Thank you 🙏🏼 btw do you have a video on how to set up the table to cut wood? I just used a chair and didn’t have clamps. Not sure how to set up.
Hi, where did you purchase the stair nose pieces that match your floor?
From Home Depot. They had to special order it at the flooring desk.
My kid would disagree that this is a fun family activity 😂
No wonder it wasn’t working for me thanks for the tips :)
No black plastic used as vapor barrier? I'm wondering if plastic even needed.
It depends on your flooring. You don't need it for a raised foundation which is what we have.
I'm laying it tomorrow... better learn me fast!
Why did you put a threshold between the doorway if you’re using the same color and same flooring?
Never mind. Got the reason at the end.
If the floor is not leveled out (low spots filled) the floor will move up and down when you walk on it and the joints will fail and make a cracking sound when walked on.
That is why the floor needs to be checked and if it is not level, you need to level it. The manufacturer says that a quarter inch is acceptable.
@@Anikasdiylife typical is 3/16 over 10 feet. More and you will have hallow spots and the joints coming apart after a while. Clicking when you walk on it which can get very annoying.
You did a good job. However, one negative critique is you didn't stagger the offsets more. Your offsets align every-other-row so it looks less natural and you see the offset lines more as a result.
Thank you for pointing that out kindly. It is not staggered for about half the room (and I definitely am not a fan of that). By the time i realized what was happening, it was too late. I didn't want to redo the entire area.