I just asked my wife what she wanted for Christmas….”Hardwood in the Kitchen to match the wood in the dinning room, and while your at it, lets rip out the rugs in the familiy room and install hardword in there also” I had to ask!
I am wondering what the standard pratice is to install hardwood in a kitchen and have the new floor match up with the existing dinning room hardwood floor. I know that the dinning room is 3/4 in. flooring layed on 3/4 (23/32) plywood. My guess is the kitchen is 3/4 plus 5/8 plus vinyl. My gut feeling is that all the plywood in the kitchen has to be removed (I am sure the plywood is glued together). Does this involve cutting the perimeter of the kitchen and leaving the existing plywood flush with the drywall? I plan on flooring under the stove, refrigerator and the dishwasher but not under the cabinetry (they are only 7 years old and in excellent shape and good quality). Am I on the mark with this? Does anyone have a suggestion as to a good book on remodeling (structural)?
Additionally, since half the house has HW floors already I am going with unfinished flooring, and plan on sanding the whole 1st floor and then finishing. Any comments will be welcome. Thanks in advance. Dan
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Dan,
Sounds like you have answered your own question, Tear out the existing floor and install the new and most of all learn to keep your big mouth SHUT. LOL Next time buy her some jewelry. It will be cheaper and a lot less work. Seriously it sound like you already have it figured out. Good luck.
Mark
Thanks Mark. Maybe the cost of materials and the down time in the kitchen will scare her straight! Dan
I dunno Dan.
Your wife asks for hard wood for christmas, and you think that's a bad thing ?
; )
Don't bogart the Ghost
Quittin' Time
"I am wondering what the standard pratice is to install hardwood in a kitchen and have the new floor match up with the existing dinning room hardwood floor."
I don't know much about the installation, but I have faced a similar design challenge. If you refinish all your floors, you might get a fair match - but is the join between the floors long (as in open floor plan) or just in a doorway? If you are going to have a slight, but noticeable difference, I'd consider putting something between the 2 so it will be harder to detect the difference. Something that would be an attractive feature - I had this problem when I remodelled a 140 year old house back in England. The room added onto the back of the house was about 80 years old, and the wood wasn't the same as the rest. I refinished all the lovely 16" wide pine boards, and used wood stains to stencil a simple design on the strip between the old-old and the new-old.