Homebase DIY Flooring

Advantages: Easy to lay, hard wearing, ideal for messy children and easy to clean
Disadvantages: None

**Warning it's a long one! With three messy children and one on the way our not so old carpet was looking a little worn out and well fed by our toddler John who like to feed everything but his mouth. When the over stopped doing it's job on John's ground in waffles it was time to find the perfect solution, no not evict the children, evict the carpet. After browsing through some of the DIY stores online we found it 'laminate flooring'. It met all ...
...Cost: Carpet: When pricing up carpet at today's prices for our room (13ft x 15ft) it would have cost around £130. Laminate floor: Laminate floor cost us just under £120 including the laminate planks, wood adhesive, plank floor kit and the foam underlay. All these were found very easily at Homebase, the laminate planks were on special offer at the time and I beleive that the offer remains as it is so popular. Wear and tear: Carpet: Our original ... Read review

Advantages: easy to lay,easy to clean, looks really good, has a 10 year guarantee
Disadvantages: takes a bit of time,needs to dry before using

...DIY stores. l found that Homebase gave the best deals where we live, as now and then they give wonderful discounts, which if you intend to do your whole house can be a real bargain. Now depending on what you are looking for, laminated flooring comes in a variety of shades e.g. oak, beech, pine and other colours depending where you wish to put them. You can have the more expensive clip together boards. These wonderful boards can be taken apart again ...
...of a puzzle to me as why would you want to dismantle your hard work once it is all laid down. Anyway if you don’t want to tear your work apart the other types are more permanent and require glue. Before you start on becoming a DIY genius make sure that 1: you have all the equipment that you need to lay down the flooring. 2: you have enough laminated floorboards to complete the project. 3:you have underlay for floorboards and if the floor ... Read review

Advantages: A very cheap lay!!!
Disadvantages: Making a rod for my own back?

As I slouch through the kitchen for my hundredth time in one morning I actually notice the tiles beneath my feet, grubby and well past their sell by date. Never one to hold back on another DIY challenge I take baby monster to his favourite toy store....... Homebase. Walking around the flooring area I realised I was going to be hard pushed to tile my kitchen on a budget, until I spotted the Essentials range, easy to miss in boring bland orange and ...
...box to walk on, I took a chance. There were several different patterns from blue to a wood effect. I chose 10 packs of "brick sand", (similar to natural and pale terracotta stones in a 9 tile mosaic effect) and considered my £22.90 very well spent. This worked out to be £2.29 per pack of 6 tiles which cover approximately 6sq.ft. They have a subtle sheen to them, reflecting light which is something my kitchen rather lacks. They are hard, and slightly ... Read review

Advantages: Really easy to use, looks great
Disadvantages: Could do with being advertised more. I found it by chance

...flooring I got from Homebase recently. It's called: Westco Timberstyle Self adhesive Plank flooring ( a bit of a mouthful I know!) and, basically is vinyl flooring but with a twist - it looks like laminate! Details Price For £9.99 you get 7 strips of vinyl that will cover 1 sq metre of floor.It took me 3 packs to cover my pretty average sized bathroom. Choice At my store there were 5 different shades of 'laminate style' vinyl. I chose "Sawn ...
...isn't really even and fake looking - rather, until you touch it, you could be forgiven for thinking it was original wood. Ease of use This is the best bit! My floor was already pretty even (cork tiled)but the manufacturers claim that you can lay it on any floor without needing an underlay. So just prime with some PVA ( although I didn’t bother! So - you can lay it straight on. Just clean the floor of any fluff, peel the backing off the laminate, ... Read review

Advantages: Very cost effective compared to laminate, looks like laminate
Disadvantages: May peel when wet, need to make flat surface to start with

Last weekend I laid a new floor in my bathroom. I used these foot square lino type tiles bought from one of our leading superstores. They worked out £1.98 for 6 tiles which cover about 3 sq metres. I figured out that I nedded 6 packets of those from the value range. Thing with these is that you have to lay them onto a flat surface really, probably not best straight on top of floorboards. So I bought some hardboard, only thin stuff and worked out ...
...of those to cover the floor with first of all. The tricky bit is cutting the shapes around the toilet and sink pedestal, but once the floor is down then it's fairly easy to lay the tiles. I found it best to start in the middle of the floor and work your way out. So measure the floor across and down and get a central point to lay the first tile. When you come to the edges, the tiles fit straight under the skirting boards, so you don't have to be ... Read review

Advantages: Looks stunning and modern.
Disadvantages: I could write to much so you may as well read on...

...slippers.) You can buy the floor packs from most DIY, carpet and homeware stores such as B&Q, Homebase, Focus, Carpet right and even online. For home owners - definetely a profit making idea as the buyers will love it!... Read review

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