Help with flooring problem in lower level room

9 years ago

Hi all. I have a split foyer house, with finished rooms down. Also downstairs is the door to the garage, where stands my heat pump. The pump overflowed and water came under the walls into the carpeted den and small hallway. It was a mess! Now I am trying to make a decision about what to put down there. I am afraid of carpet again; what's to keep that from happening a second time? Am told I can't put down wood since it is a cement slab. I was thinking about staining the cement as I have seen that recently and wondered if any of you that have done it, could offer advice. The room is about 25x 10. Thank you so much for the help.

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User
9 years ago
Vinyl.
User
9 years ago
Yeah there have been threads about this. It's iffy. Depends on your expectations.

I did it in our old basement in the room we used as a gym. It worked. It was blotchy. But we had a bunch of equipment sitting on it. It was loud - music was too much noise.

When we put the house up for sale I carpeted over it.

Good luck.
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Cancork Floor Inc.
9 years ago
Moving from carpet to cement is a HUGE jump. The reason carpet is used on slab is it is warm, it breathes, it keeps the noise down and it is cheap to replace/install.

The only floors that will survive this type of event = finished concrete, porcelain tile, stone and epoxy. Everything else will have issues with a floor. A finished concrete floor has a price tag between $5 - $25 per square foot. Carpet will fall below that price tag.

A vinyl planked floor will be somewhere in that range with installation. Vinyl planks *can be reused....but the EFFORT to do it is beyond most people's endurance and they find it easier to toss the floor and have a new one installed. And that would be the same place you would be if you have carpet. Back to square one with a more expensive floor than carpet. Sigh.

Think hard about hard cold surfaces in that space. Ask yourself, "Can I handle standing on concrete in my socks for 30 minutes - in the winter time?|" If the answer is "No", then you probably want to work with something that offers warmth.
Sherry8aNorthAL
9 years ago
What about an indoor/outdoor carpet?