I made an incredible quantity of headway on the house health club ground this weekend, and I received the FLOR carpet tiles put in in the entire room except the closet space. And I’m completely thrilled with how these look! I used the Rush Street FLOR carpet tiles in black, and I took an opportunity by ordering them with out ordering samples first. However my gamble paid off, as a result of I really like how they appear!
I nonetheless should do one thing about that transition strip, however extra on that in a second.
I will likely be including quarter spherical or shoe molding (in all probability quarter spherical) to the baseboards to cowl over areas like this the place the tiles didn’t cowl proper as much as the wall. Reducing carpet strips that tiny can be big ache, however quarter spherical will cowl proper over that.
Again to the transition strip. I’ve two on this room — one coming from the hallway and one going into the lavatory. My preliminary thought was to match the stain on the one going into the hallway to match the hardwood ground within the hallway.
However then I’ve this different one going from the black FLOR carpet tiles to a white marbled tile lavatory ground.
So to maintain issues constant, I’ve determined to stain each of them black to match the FLOR carpet tiles as a substitute. And I’ve already examined Matt’s wheelchair over the transition strips, and it goes over them with ease.
I do know I’ve solely had these carpet tiles down for a few days, however I’m completely bought on FLOR carpet tiles. I completely love the way in which they appear.
And putting in them was nearly as simple as a DIY challenge can get. I used to be going to take step-by-step footage for a bit of tutorial, however there’s no want. Severely. You set one tile down. You set sticky squares on the again edge. You set one other tile down subsequent to it caught to the identical sticky squares in order that the 2 tiles are caught collectively. Repeat. 😀 And should 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.
It significantly couldn’t get any simpler, and the result’s actually phenomenal. And whereas it’s not precisely fast gratification, you will get an entire room finished in a day (so long as you’re not having to cope with subfloor points, like I’m).
I needed a black ground since this can be a house health club, but it surely’s undoubtedly very black and really darkish. It does make the room really feel darker, however for the reason that partitions are so brilliant and cheerful, I don’t have an issue with the room feeling a bit of darker.
Cooper, our very hyper 100-pound canine, has already examined it out as nicely. I used to be leaping on my rebounder Saturday evening, and I let him are available in right here with me. He began working and spinning and doing every kind of sudden begins and stops. None of that had any impact in any respect on the carpet squares. They didn’t separate (these sticky squares actually are tremendous sticky). They didn’t transfer or shift. They didn’t snag. Apart from a number of soiled paw prints (he had been outdoors prior), they seemed completely superb after he completed enjoying and left the room. And people soiled paw prints vacuumed proper up.
So I’m a giant FLOR fan now! They’re not precisely low cost. I purchased 100 tiles for this room (I believe I’ll have 5 left over, which I’ll be glad to have readily available in case I would like to interchange one), and with delivery and tax, it got here to only over $1600.
So it’s not an affordable possibility, however I do suppose there’s fact in “you get what you pay for.” I attempted to go a budget route the primary time, and spent solely about $225 for foam tiles for the entire room. (Once I purchased them, they had been cheaper than they’re now.) And all of us noticed how that labored out. They didn’t look nearly as good. The health club tools left actually dangerous dents within the foam, they usually didn’t come out even days later. And Cooper poked a gap within the foam ground the primary time he got here in right here.
However these carpet squares look nice, match collectively completely (no jigsaw puzzle-looking seams like with the froth ground), they usually appear fairly indestructible. So whereas they’re significantly dearer than the froth house health club ground tiles that I initially tried to make use of, I believe the added expense will likely be price it. And since they maintain as much as my large, hyper canine, I’ve little doubt that they’ll maintain up completely to Matt’s wheelchair.
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