Planning to renovate your floors?

Discovering a soft floor, cracked tile, or mould stains near the bottom of your bathroom walls is every homeowner’s nightmare. In a bathroom, the subfloor can be exposed to significant moisture due to plumbing leaks, failed waterproofing, overflows, or inadequate ventilation. An undetected leak beneath the toilet or along the bathtub caulking can quickly penetrate the finished flooring and cause the wood structure to rot.

Kitchen floor looking rough? Laundry room seeing more puddles than it should? That's usually the moment people start looking into vinyl sheet flooring. It comes in wide rolls instead of individual planks or tiles, so a room can often be covered with almost no seams at all, which is basically why it ends up in kitchens, laundry rooms, rental suites, and entryways more than anywhere else. 

A new floor lives or dies on the prep work that comes before it. Subfloor condition, indoor humidity, and the order trades work in all decide whether planks sit flat and stay put, or cup, gap, and lift within a season. A weekend of groundwork protects the money you spend on the boards themselves.