Respect, I hope this doesn't get taken the wrong way. The fact you're a woman with a family, dominating renovations. Really helps boost my confidence as a man to take on DIYs. We need more of this plus your explanations are amazing. Thank you!

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

Not at all! Thank you!

@DaughterofOurLady

2 жыл бұрын

Now I’m convinced!! Gonna do my home myself!

@raymaan123

2 жыл бұрын

I am a woman from Pakistan and I do all these diy projects by myself too. Thank you for giving me a boost Anika.

@natashiasampson1500

Жыл бұрын

Nice and respectful comment 💜

@ACL7211

11 ай бұрын

What does her being a woman have to do with it? Explain yourself.

It looks so pretty, especially the stairs. This video makes me feel like my family and I can do this!! 🥰

I’m an overt thinker with instructions if they’re not explained right. And you nailed exactly what I needed to know. It was the little details that really came in clutch. Love this!

You just gave me the confidence to do my floors ... 👏👏👏😍

out of all the mens vinylplank flooring videos You r The Best Of Showing And Explaining !!! I Thk u For Your Info And Displaying Effects !!! I Will Look Into Other Videos You Have !! Great Teacher U R !! ?

This was great! Just what I needed to see because I’ll be adding flooring to my basement soon. Thank you so much!! 🙏🏻

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you found it helpful!

You guys make it look so easy! Looks fantastic

I think I may actually pull this off! Thank you. I'm nervous to start but I love this video. Helps me gain a little more confidence to pull the plug and JUST DO IT! And the fact your family is all involved makes me want to make it a family thing. I appreciate this! Thank you!

Just finding your channel but happy I did! I’m buying a home and there’s tons of old worn out carpet throughout the home that I want to replace. Also there’s a 3/4 finished laminate floor in the kitchen I need to finish up! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us. Much appreciated

Thank you for a great detailed video!!! I’m inspired to do my floor! I’ll be in touch with questions along the way. Thanks!

Love the time you have taken to share these learning opportunities for me. Wish I watched this BEFORE I tried the first time!

thank you for showing everything in your video ...when you were struggling and succeeding! i really enjoyed this i might try my entryway..

What a nice job and attention to detail including your instructions. Thanks.

Pretty, smart and handy: what a Lady!!! Thanks for the video, well done.

I love your videos! As a woman who loves wood working and auto mechanics, it is so great to see another woman/mom/wife doing such great projects. I am just getting started myself, your videos really help me learn as a beginner

@Anikasdiylife

10 ай бұрын

Wow, thank you! That really means a lot and I'm so glad you're getting great value from the content!

Just bought LVT for my whole upstairs! Thanks for the tips!

Oh mylanta!!! Thank you for explaining the tongue side cause that was driving me up the wall!!

Hello... Love the flooring... I have just took up my old floor and replaced with 1 in boards and I am now about to put down some of the snap linoleum thank you for the video I like how you explained and showed. I will be starting tomorrow on my living room. Then I will move on to daughters room.. Brandon from wylie

Elegant video! It was fun watching the "simple" steps for a floor make-over. Fun family activity! Great job, Well done!

This was the best video I could find. Very descriptive. Keep up the good work

Great tips on every single detail didn't miss anything... We needed the staircase as well!!! Good job... fun family project Thank you!!! 🥰

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I have recently published a detailed video only about the staircase if you want to watch that.

Great Video and tips. I think you gave me courage to do this!!!

Ok, I find it AWESOME that you are doing the demo and your husband comes in and vacuums! Kudos to you for picking the right man rather than macho dude! I am not trying to redo flooring, just trying to refurbish a tv bench into a sitting bench. I found some pieces of flooring at the Habitat for Humanity re-store that I thought I would use as the top and just glue them down. I just wanted to cut the laminate to size and cut off tongue and groove. I only have a 40 year old craftsman jig saw so just can’t cut it accurate enough. Going to try the utility knife. Thanks for your clear explanations.

Great job! I really need this tutorial. I am excited about laying my floor now. Girl power!!

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

You got this!

turned out to look beautiful great work .

Phenomenal video Mama!! Well done.

Thanks for the tutorial, I am getting ready to lay flooring.👋🏼 thank you your floors look wonderful.

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you and all the best!

Thank you so much for the video, we had inspired a lot that will motivate me to be able to do my dining room my kitchen.😊

Great video... thank you!!!! Awesome tips, too.

Thank you for this video. It helped me so much!!

Great video! Thank you for the awesome walkthrough, Anika!

Very Good Directions and what a Pleasant Lady! Thank you so much for your video!

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

Amazing video and great tips, I will definitely be getting a sample of the Dusk Cherry!

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Love it you guys did a wonderful job!👌🏼👏🏼👏🏼

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!!

Thanks for your video! I’m planning to do new flooring in my entire house with vinyl planks. I have to start with 2 bedrooms in particular, but my bedrooms and hallway all have weird angles at the threshold. I’m having such a hard time calculating how to start (if I need to cut down the starting row or not) because of this. It’s driving me bonkers, but I’ll get it figured out. 🙃😆

You are amazing thanks for your perfect explanation 👏🏻

I am so impressed thank you for posting this video

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

You are very welcome

Good job 👍

nice job congratulations

Very informative 😊

Good information 👍🏻

Good job Thanks...

Good job. Thank you gal..

Great video, thank you!

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it!

Amazing video! Thanks a lot!!! ❤

@Anikasdiylife

11 ай бұрын

Thank you too!

Much respect - tyvm

great tips. thanks.

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

You bet!

Nice job!

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Inspiring!

Thank you very much for the detailed explanation. I was encouraged and wished to do it by myself following your instruction). After I remove the carpet of my living room, I found out there is gap between the skirting board and the floor (cement currently). the gap has both horizontal and vertical dimension. I am concerned that even I would use spacer to fix the floor when I do the installation, the floor will not be stable after I remove the spacer and use beaning (because of the depth (i.e. horizontal dimension into the wall)). I am wondering whether you even experienced such case and what solution I would use to deal with this?

GASP! It’s Mr. Anika! :) I don’t think I’ve seen him in a video before!

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

Whoever helps out gets to be in the videos LOL.

@atillausta8514

2 жыл бұрын

thank you for your understanding

good work Ankita family 🙏

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. And it’s Anika

Hi Thanks for the video. I am in the process of laying vinyl plank over existing tile in my bathroom. The threshold has a very small lip. Do I need to grind it down to make it flushed with tile prior to laying down the plank? Thanks

Awesome video, nice and simple. I plan to do some flooring here will a multi tool be sufficient to making cutouts?

Hello great job! Well explained video l. Can you please share the color you used on your walls the grey color thank you !😊

Fabulous!! This is the Home Depot flooring color we also chose, and it's great to see how it will actually look. Thank you Anika!!! I noticed you did not use the underlayment. Can you share why you chose not to?

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I love the color. Like I mentioned in the video, Lifeproof flooring comes with underlayment attached so you don’t have to worry about it. One less step!

@cassiehindman4020

2 жыл бұрын

@@Anikasdiylife how’s it holding up?

YOu did so good!

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Thank you

Installing this exact color in a few days. Also a woman don't the work. Can't wait for my new dog friendly floors!!!

Nice thank u.

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Welcome 😊

Oh my hell get to the installation!

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

patience Dan! :)

Thank you so much for sharing, my biggest fear are the end pieces, and how to make it look dimensional. Will have to go back and review the formula of math, 😢 Any suggestions on Hallways?

You did a fantastic job and really looks wonderful. I knew vinyl flooring would look nice in my new house but I made 2 major mistakes: I cheaped out on the flooring and hired my idiot brother to install it. It looks horrible!

good video. I'm having a problem with kitchen floor. the 3 or 4 short pieces of vinyl between sink cab and island (3 pieces about 3 feet long) are sliding toward the sink and big gap is showing at edge of island. I can push them back under the island with friction but the foot traffic goes toward and then stops at sink, pulling those short boards, so it will keep hapenning. Wondering what to do to stop them from moving? only permanent fix i can think of might be to install a strip across the base of the sink cab right behind the kick plate as a stop for the vinyl (if the boards even go that far) but I have custom laquered nailed in kick plate 5 feet long under sink cab base and worried about damaging it. I dont know if construction glue at the end of the gaps and/or in the side grooves under the isalnd would work. If it doesnt hold ill have a mess to deal with.. Any ideas? thanks. I guess i could ask my cabinet maker to come and take off the kick plate as a last resort but might take several months to get him.

My kid would disagree that this is a fun family activity 😂

Thanks

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Welcome!

What an amazing job you and your family has done!!!! So awesome!! Can you tell me what that metal strip is called? The one you used before the floor reducers?? Thank you so much and again, fantastic, amazing job!!!!!

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

It comes with the reducers. And thank you!

@MoonlightSlimer

3 жыл бұрын

@@Anikasdiylife I totally realized that when I opened my reducers up 😂😂 I appreciate you!

Very helpful video..I plan to install LVP in bathroom. As you mentioned nothing heavy should sit on top of the plank. How do I go about installing around the toilet?

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

You should cut the flooring around the toilet. Then you can add a seal and caulk to close the gap

Thanks for the tips. They are very helpful. What color do you use for your wall?

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

You’re welcome 😊 Walls are SW Repose Gray at 50%

Can you install this floor on hardwood floor? I have a good hardwood floor but kids are damaging it so that it why I want to install life proof vinyl on it. Is it doable?

Great video! Quick question: does this flooring require vapor barrier?

@nicolecuellolao3025

2 жыл бұрын

It’s attached to the back of the Lifeproof vinyl plank.

Can you do an update video of how the flooring has held up… I’m thinking of going with lifeproof flooring and would love to hear your review/feedback. Thanks!

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!! It is doing great! It has held up to lots of furniture being dragged across - because kids. We also have a rower and treadmill on the floor and no problems at all so far.

Thanks for the video, from where you bought the stairs wood matching your LVP?

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Also from Home Depot. Its a special order but the flooring people were helpful to get it all ordered.

How does hammering the long end of the board down on to the previously laid board lock it in? I'm struggling

No wonder it wasn’t working for me thanks for the tips :)

Awesome work!! I really love the paint in your walls, can you please tell me what is the name of the paint.

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

It is Repose Gray from Sherwin Williams

@raquelnunez3392

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! You are a blessing, have a nice weekend with your beautiful family ❤️

Great video! Can you tell me what color is that floor?

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

This is Dusk Cherry

I really enjoyed this video. Question. How long did it take to lay the flooring in the kitchen? A day?

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

I would say a little more than a day but we weren't working constantly because... kids...

Thinking about doing my first floor in the basement.... I have a lot of our furniture/fridge (that can't come out of the room) piled on one side of the room. Can I install half the room and then move the stuff onto the Vinyl Flooring, and then finish the flooring on the other side? Appreciate the help!!

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

I think you can do that. You just have to be super careful to not damage the edges of the unfinished floor.

Did you check for asbestos?

Looks really nice job done!!… if you If you lived close to us, you would hire them to do that job for us.🤔👍🏼

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Haha!!

Was the pre-installed underpayment enough cushion? Or do you feel like an additional underpayment would have been better? Getting ready to install my own

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Yes I think it was enough and we love it so far!

How did you do the stair lip?

Hi, where did you purchase the stair nose pieces that match your floor?

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

From Home Depot. They had to special order it at the flooring desk.

Does dusk cherry lean orange?

Question…did you have to peel off the underpayment before adhering to stairs? This is one of the better videos that I’ve seen for LVP installation. I’m about to tackle the entire upstairs and 2 landings on already refinished stairs. The landings just need the LVP. I’m a little nervous. I have about 1150 SF to do which includes bedrooms, hallway and bathrooms and closets. Thanks for a great video that is inspiring for beginners

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jessica, you don't need to remove the underlayment for the stairs. I actually have a separate video all about the stair installation which has a little more detail. kzread.info/dash/bejne/iZp_z7ykYL2eodI.html You got this! Its a great leg exercise but it is totally doable. All the best!

Thought the manufacturers instructions said to lay it from left to right and with the groove side against the wall. Am I missing something?

What did you use on the stairs where it’s white? Is that wallpaper? Thanks!

@jocelynross9484

Жыл бұрын

^would love the answer to this as well

I'm laying it tomorrow... better learn me fast!

Can you start laying the floor from a room then living room and meet? And also why is it not good to finish with a short plank?

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Yes. You can have the two floors meet but you will have to use a transition like I did in the entryway and family room.

Probably a dumb question, but.....how come the stair planks don't need 1/4" room for expansion like the floor planks do?

If you find old linoleum in your home, especially if it dates from the 50's to the 80's, please test for asbestos. Old lino used to have asbestos backing

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the tip

flooring job looks great >

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

sorry you're having resistance, they have text support available and phone numbers too: Scroll to "Online order support" on this page and they should be able to help. Good luck! www.homedepot.com/c/customer_service

What type of threshold would you suggest using for an entry doorway to transition from a vinyl plank floor to bare wood? We used to have a metal and rubber threshold there but we can’t use that because now the vinyl plank is too high and we don’t know what to do!

@Anikasdiylife

3 жыл бұрын

You should be able to find a shorter threshold at the home improvement store. Check the height you need to seal and find one accordingly. However, be sure NOT to screw the threshold through the vinyl plank flooring. You can cut it off with a utility knife and make space for the threshold. Once you take it off, you might also be able to use the old threshold

Awesome video! That dusk cherry looks great. I’m sacred to go with a 6mil wear layer since now they have 12 and 22. How is it holding up? Looks so good I love it!

@Anikasdiylife

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you. It’s holding up wonderfully. We couldn’t be happier with it

🙌

what if the floor is 12x24 vinyl tile look, do I still have to make sure the last piece is not under 8 inches?

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

Yes. Always have to make sure of that.

@PilarAYah

Жыл бұрын

@@Anikasdiylife I just finished putting down my bathroom floor. Thanks to your videos I did it and it came out pretty good. Thank you 🙏🏼 btw do you have a video on how to set up the table to cut wood? I just used a chair and didn’t have clamps. Not sure how to set up.

Why did you put a threshold between the doorway if you’re using the same color and same flooring?

@lisarosado1563

2 жыл бұрын

Never mind. Got the reason at the end.

No black plastic used as vapor barrier? I'm wondering if plastic even needed.

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

It depends on your flooring. You don't need it for a raised foundation which is what we have.

If the floor is not leveled out (low spots filled) the floor will move up and down when you walk on it and the joints will fail and make a cracking sound when walked on.

@Anikasdiylife

Жыл бұрын

That is why the floor needs to be checked and if it is not level, you need to level it. The manufacturer says that a quarter inch is acceptable.

@rbfarrell1

Жыл бұрын

@@Anikasdiylife typical is 3/16 over 10 feet. More and you will have hallow spots and the joints coming apart after a while. Clicking when you walk on it which can get very annoying.

Why you cut the first plank of tounge is you said towards the wall?

@_PickleJuice9

11 сағат бұрын

I got confused too with the tongue 😕