We?re making progress in the flip house and the latest project completed was a big one, the floors! For this installation I chose a wood lookalike waterproof vinyl floor and partnered with Armstrong Flooring to do it after I fell in love with a sample of their luxury vinyl flooring products.
The color I chose was Bluegrass Barnwood Fiddle Brown in the Vivero Luxury Vinyl Plank line and I was so excited to work with this product!
 
This flooring resists dirt, scuffs, and staining and is made with Diamond 10 Technology, an exclusive manufacturing process that makes Vivero extremely durable. The flooring arrived by truck, but before we could install it we had to remove the old carpet and tile and prep the floors for the new planks.
 
  This particular luxury vinyl plank product installs over most subfloors, and with Armstrong Flooring?s IntegriLock? System no glue is required, it?s a floating floor, one that you can install yourself.
Once we pulled up the carpet and tile we were left with a floor covered in old glue and carpet remnants and the subfloor was full of cracks. The situation was pretty bad, and nowhere near where we needed it to be to lay down a seamless plank floor by ourselves. *Sigh*. Prep and installation wasn?t something we could handle alone on a 3 day visit so we decided to bring in help.
 
We hired a subcontractor to help us get this job done right. To prep the floors for the luxury vinyl planks, our guys used two products to fill the cracks and smoo...