Wow, what a slacker I’ve been, no updates in April, which kind of left family out in the dark, sorry about that.  Well First off, my new job with BrightHouse is awesome, I love every minute of it as the team I work with are great and the department really focuses on teamwork which is something I was missing in my last place of employment (I’ll clarify that it was after the merger, is when teamwork went to hell).  It’s also great that the company is really focused on it’s employees so everyday I see a bunch of people just smiling.  That’s really great for morale especially with the economy is the way it is.

Other than that the only thing I’ve been focused on the wood floors.  I’ve been taking everything at a snails pace as I’m trying to learn as much as I can before I lay the floors down.  Problem is there isn’t very many sites out there that really educate you on gluing down wood floors.  Most that I found were very basic, so I’ve pieced things together from sites and from some local companies here in Orlando.

First thing that I learned was to really prepare the concrete flooring ensuring that it’s as clean as possible.  I ended up having to scrape the paint off the concrete (thanks Morrison Homes for that one), and sand down as much as I can.  After which I wiped down the concrete, filled cracks and the holes left by the carpet tacks.  Moisture doesn’t seem to be a problem but I’ve been going round and round with what type of moisture barrier to put down.  Lumber liquidators recommended Bostik’s MVP4.  Now I can’t argue that it’s very good, but after I’ve spoken with a couple of people on the Internet they wish they didn’t use the MVP4 and instead put down an underlayment.  Their reasons was that they wished for more noise reduction and the heat/cool insulation during the winter/summer months.  After all this research I’ve decided to go with Dream Home insulayment.

But how to put it down when you are gluing down the hardwood floors?  I got different answers from different people so I happened on a house where a crew was putting wood floors in so I decided to stop by and ask some questions.  It was a good thing I did because they were doing what I’m about to do.  First they laid out the insulayment and cut to fit, then put down Bostiks Best, and finally rolled out the insulayment.  That sounds better than rolling it out and duct taping it which sounds like something you do with floating floors.  They explained that once the insulayment is set then you glue the floors to the insulayment.  From the family room that they did, it turned out very nice and I could see it as they haven’t put the transition strips in yet.

So that’s where I stand right now, as I now know how I want to put them in.  It was require using more glue but I end up saving money in the long run as the MVP4 cost more than the extra glue and insulayment combined.  So I’m going to return the can of MVP4 and order the insulayment.  Once I get those in we start putting the floors in (Yeah Teal will be excited)!