sorry but it doesn't increase resale value it increases market attention

New Floors Sound Exciting
 

IMHO a floor just looks better if it’s continuous and the same. As far as sound, the floor gets some credit, but certainly not all the credit. Hard surface reverberations cause echo. Try soft surfaces on walls. Introduce larger plants, maybe a a large fabric cornice over your rear glass doors as well as large well padded throw rugs, these all should reduce the hard surface bouncing of sound waves. Many get large canvas paintings and they too can absorb the waves hitting your walls.

You know castles in Europe hang rugs and tapestries just to tackle your problem. I’m sure you are a bit more creative. Best of luck. I’m glad to see another enjoy our lives here in Sunny Florida.
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Floor
 

I redid entire floor of 2/2 courtyard villa last year. It’s far more elegant without the chopped up floors in the various rooms. I removed the tile from the kitchen and linoleum from the baths.

I used LVP with a commercial floor rating. Waterproof. Dog friendly. Easy to clean. Doesn’t scratch. Not noisy.

Great Lakes floors did mine. Best floor I’ve ever owned.

We removed carpet in living/dining room and replaced with a luxury vinyl. Mrs loved it so much we did same in master bedroom. Kept guest rooms carpeted. Call Roberto’s in Colony Plaza- they did the work and we are VERY satisfied! One day job.

If it’s the color of the engineered floor that bothers you, why not look into having your floors sanded and refinished in the color you like? It can be done.

We currently have the original tile in the common areas and bathrooms and engineered hardwood in the bedrooms (replacing the original carpet).

It may be possible, but I wouldn't recommend it, especially if you are doing it to just change the color. I once had hardwood floors refinished. It was very messy and dusty, and the final result was nowhere near as good as pre-finished flooring. One problem was dust "nibs" that settled on the polyurethane while it was drying. Also, I don't know how you would find an "expert" flooring refinisher in this area. In my opinion, the best thing to do is to remove and replace the flooring, and to consider paying extra for new baseboards and shoe molding.

This is good info to have, thanks. We are currently looking at houses and many have tile that is....less than ideal. I was wondering about viability of LVP over tile instead of demolition of tile. This gives me a base of info; much appreciated.

(apologies for side-barring the discussion)

We had LVP installed over tile a few months ago. Looks great and is so much easier to care for than tile and grout. We chose a fairly light shade to minimize visible dust and footprints. It always looks clean, and is very low maintenance. We did the whole house so the bedrooms had to have carpet removed and a subfloor (?) added to make those rooms level with the rest of the house. We wanted only one floor type throughout our home. It’s 2300 sq ft (4/3), and was about $20K because of the extra prep work in the bedrooms. The job took about 5 days, and was done by LA Flooring.

This discussion is interesting because in a previous house the homeowner installed flooring on top of the existing flooring, but not under any appliances. The new flooring was about 3/8 to 1/2 inch thick. All was fine until the dishwasher failed, then there was not sufficient vertical clearance to remove the unit without RAISING the countertop. My point double check that either the new flooring is installed UNDER all appliances or that there will be sufficient room to get these out if needed.

We have a stretched Gardenia. When we bought it, there were a total of 6 different types of flooring. Two types of tile, carpet, two types of engineered hardwood and LVP. We like one continuous type of flooring thru the entire house with the only possible exception was the tile already in the bathrooms.

We decided on LVP through out the entire house with exception of the two bathrooms. It would have been impossible to not demolish and remove the entire flooring down to the original concrete. Obviously, pulling carpet out gets you to the concrete level, but each type of flooring, tile, engineered hardwood and LVP were all different thickness so there would be no way for a smooth transition from each type of base without requiring transition strips.

Also a consideration that most people do not think about is if you demolish tile and replace with another material, you need to get a new material that is very close to the same thickness as the old tile and adhesive. If using a thinner floor type the baseboards can be lowered or a quarter round added but that does not help at the bottom of interior door jambs and trim around the jambs. Just something to consider.

Two years ago it took 5-1/2 days to demolish all the tile and remove all the old flooring and the complete install. Nasty, dusty job. If I remember the cost was about $17,000 but we also had all new 5-1/2 inch baseboard installed throughout the entire house. We got very good quality LVP with a commercial grade wear layer. The taller baseboard really looks good. There is no quarter round. Floormasters did out project.

We don't have any sort of echo in the house but we have a large 9 x 11 area rug in the living room. So far we don't have any scratches as the flooring is very durable. We like it in the kitchen and laundry because if there is ever a leak, which there will be some time, the floor will not be damaged like an engineered wood product. In fact, Floormasters recommended against engineered hardwood an any area where there is a possibility of water damage.

Flooring
 

We have a stretch Gardena and we refloored the entire home to porcelain tile, it is beautiful and gives our flooring a distinction from what comes with most homes. Please note that what is put down by the builders is still very nice. We used The Floor Shoppe on 301. VERY HAPPY!

Best Flooring
 

We bought a new and already built home in TV, but didn't want any carpet. The home had a very well done LVP and carpet in the 3 bedrooms. I asked the "builder" who did our floors and found them to be named Best Flooring. We also obtained bids from some of the other mentioned Flooring Contractors'. The Flooring used in our house is a pretty good grade and is not offered by most Contractors we talked to.

The reason I am posting is that Best Flooring was the only Contractor willing to meet our request of having a seamless installation with no sills to be used as transitions from existing LVP into the areas where the carpets were to be removed. Not only did they meet our requirements, they did an outstanding job at a decent price. No one would ever know there was carpet in this house unless I told you because of the seamless transitions. I recommend Best Flooring

We put in hardwood flooring in bedrooms and had tile in common areas. We used Royal Palm flooring in Summerfield (used by decorator who writes column in Daily Sun). They were competitively priced and did a great job. The light oak flooring pairs very well with the tiled areas. Have received many compliments!

Those are all good easy cheap suggestions that may just turn out to be acceptable solution for the poster, if nothing, nothing invested or lost !