I Regret Not Getting this Gadget Sooner| Vinyl Plank Installation
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- See how easy you can start your first row of using these incredible spacers. It also solves the problem of thin baseboards and the need of using quarter round.
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It’s what i use for the past 7 years, really good 👍
Brother you broke me down there at the end. I wasn’t expecting that, but you hit the nail on the head. Im headed to the house to patch a hole in the drywall in the ceiling after working night shift while listening to your reviews/tutorials. I’m exhausted and trying to not lose my drive. Thank you for the prayer!
This is a good tool. I wonder if i can 3d print this.
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The hardest part is knowing what brand flooring product to use!!!!
Joe has reviews on here. But as always, you get what you pay for.
Pretty sure Joe has a video for that, I think a few!
Lifeproof from Home Depot. I’ve used it a lot.
I went in stores and tried locking system out on every brand I was interested in and to be completely shocked the 99 cent per sq ft laminate at Lowe’s felt better than the more expensive. Not only that but the box of 9 pieces had just one repeat. I am only doing my sons room 150 sq ft and hall making total of approx 210 sq ft got it all finished n his room but now can’t get my quarter round to fit flush in the Corners even tho I used a miter box to cut them it’s so frustrating about to use my angle finder and see what it shows as I do have an issue from prev tornado damage to my mobile home that caused my walls to come out of alignment so that may be the issue and it’s not standard quarter round the inner piece is shaved off and it’s papered to match the flooring.
LifeProof!
This is awesome! I hate that the big box stores don't typically sell some of these kind of items, cause it'd make for a much less frustrating DIY experience. Thank you. =)
Dude ur a good dude I was having hard day ..then just to hear you pray gave me peace..
Just want to thank you for all your work on RUclips. I watched a lot of hours of your lvp videos before installing in my home, and let me say it would've been a disaster without your instruction. Very happy with the results. Thanks again.
with the method that you use with da cheat board is better none of your videos use spacers
I didn't see the prayer coming. Thanks for the support.
I took on a 1800 ft job because to help my daughter and I know I can do it. It's more flooring than I've done in the last 2 years. I'm watching your videos, I can tell you have done a few floors before
A couple. 😜Thanks for watching!!
God bless you Joe. That's awesome that you prayed for everyone. Thank you.
Anytime
This is the sort of tool you buy for a project, use once and never find again when you need it.
Worth it though. Besides, if you do your own project, all your friends and family will be asking you to come and help them!😜
I still cant get past the fact that insurance companies lobbied and convinced everyone that plastic floors are better than say engineered wood. They even drove the nail home buy charging way more than whats it's worth, convincing many that it's a comparable value to engineered...seemingly giving the illusion of luxury. I know I walk around on my floor in heels all the time...LOL. You need a perfectly flat floor or the tongues will fail in a few years. I'm already tearing this trash out. Cool spacers!!
That depends on the quality of plank you get. Everyone has a different lifestyle and wood does not fit the lifestyle of many homes. You will not get a quality vinyl plank for $2 a square foot.
Good job the prayer was a pleasant surprise
Thanks!!
I’ve been using for the past few years and they are great. Fully adjustable and stays in place. Glad to see you recommend these. They are lightweight and easy to take with you to jobs. Of course, my previous go to method worked well (using strips of plywood I would hot glue onto the wall). These are some of the best flooring videos for vinyl plank that are on RUclips.
Laminate or LVP?
Both.
Dang, great product review and practical application in such a short period of time 😅 great video bud!
This guy is so underrated. should have more than 172K subscriber.
OMG I could have used those. I used those skinny ones, also tried using actual pieces of plank, taped to wall, taped something over them and they continuously fell over. Floor kept moving. Argh! Lots of blue words. My second floor I screwed down chunks of scrap flooring then went back and did the first row last. Well, it was sure a crap time trying to put that row in with the locking system. I did it looks great but phew!
Don't start at the wall. Snap a line three widths from the wall. Glue some little chunks on the wall side of the chalk line. Run your floor from the line then go back and pop the chunks off to finish the last three rows. Saves so much and makes all lines perfect.
What do you mean glue some little chunks on the wall side of the chalk line? Glue little chunks of what?
If possible Brodie can you elaborate a little more? Thanks.
He is talking about a method I share in many of my videos. I leave the first row or two out and install them last. It is a method I have shared on RUclips for many years. I am just showing another alternative method in this video.
@@SoThatsHowYouDoThat oh okay great thank you very much I appreciate your reply with expanding on this little more! Thanks again so much for what you do! I'll definitely be keeping you in my family in my prayers and I've been praying for you with stopping smoking. I hope that journey is going good for you. God bless!
@@SoThatsHowYouDoThat I'm sorry, I didn't realize you had shown that before. Great work.
Loved the prayer at the end of the show.
I love quarter round but my bases are also 8 inches... high bases look good with quarter round. small bases look stupid.
Wow....GREAT little gadget. I'm smack in the middle off "hallway-Hell", where absolutely nothing is level....the walls, the floors, etc.. So, this will be great for different adjustments at different spots. Thank you for sharing!!! P.S.....thank you for the prayer....I know I can't be the only one who needs all the help he can get 🙏👍
Thank you for another great video. I can’t wait to start my whole house replacement in a few months. I know I can do it because you taught me how! Happy New Year to you and yours.
God bless you,
It's fantastic when a complete stranger is prepared to help another stranger for free.
Amen.
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I followed your way of using no spacers and cheaper board, I did my whole house myself recently. No joints either. I used commercial grade vinyl plank by Centurity 20mil.
Excellent idea, I had the same issue when I installed the vinyl plank floor at my daughter and son in laws house. Your video on vinyl plank was a life saver, thanks for all the help Joe and Gob bless you and your family.
Thanks to you, your advice and your videos I was able to installed my floor. Thanks one more time.
Those are cool, I've struggled with that first row especially in small areas.
joe seems like such a gentleman.great videos
Thanks buddy!
Cool spacers but if youre going to the trouble of cutting into the wall might as well go the extra step and either draw a chalk line or use a laser level for that first row.
My handyman just installed lvp flooring through out my 1100 sq ft home with no expansion gaps. I hoping it won't start buckling. If worst comes to worst and starts buckling I can always remove baseboards and use ocilating tool to cut lvp around perimeter of house
Do you think these are as good as using the scrap boards with screws?
Oh wow, gonna have to pick some up. 👍🏽
Hey joe love the videos I’ve finished my sons room despite having fracture spine with ruptured discs and a broken shoulder. I did get a roberts multi use floor cutter tho just to help and I’ve used a jigsaw with dewalt laminate blades worked great. Having problems with quarter round not fitting great in corners but it may be my walls. Used a miter box but I wanted to share with everyone some spacers I tried out from Home Depot that worked very well they are by lifeproof grey in color and cost 13.99 here in my area hav screen shot but I don’t know how to post that anyway they have one side is 1/4” and they lay down onto the flooring to stay in place the opposite side is 1/2” and then if you put them directly onto floor you get a full inch. Never came out even when pounding my pull bar with hammer. I tore up 3 mallets so went to hammer lol. The flooring is angle tap. Couldn’t have done it without your videos tho
I bet you do if you were really an installer you wouldn't of installed a single job without them no way your jobs before are installed to spec. All you are doing is stealing people's money not doing quality install. 43yearsi been an installer and I have used those since 1985.
Wowsers, wonderful instruction, tips and blessings too!! I did my simple, small, square hen coup with plank from Habitat and went well on my own with whatever tools I could make work before I discovered you. Now, we have to do a 1000+sqft home and will be doing an additional challenging room with lots of quirks. I'm so happy your EXCELLENT help will to make our install as headache free as possible. Luv my oscillating saw too, it's second to my table saw but I've been paying way to much for the blades. Okay, I'm maintenancy but not techy so will try to find your link for tools and blades. Thank you much and Lord bless you and yours!!
Thank you for sharing!
Home Depot has a new life proof version that gives you 1/4 or 1/2 option. Long overdue.
The Crain variable spacers are way better but a lot more expensive, worth every penny for a professional, probably not cost effective for a diy
How many of those spacers do you recommend. The link shows they are 12 dollars each.
The whole flaw is using LVP is this garbage material anyway. There is nothing 'luxury" about it as they are using in trailer homes now. The best advise is to not buy this material to start with, its alreata trend that is over..
What do think about a inexpensive lazer level. Thanks for the the prayer.
I don’t even use those or rarely I will. As you get going and putting the floor together it’ll all stay in place. I use plastic shims or wedges in couple spots and then after a few runs you don’t even need them there anymore
I want to do my basement and I half drywall and half concrete walls… is it still possible to put vinyl against that?
Loved the how to knowledge. Loved the spacers. Especially loved the prayer at the end keep those coming. God bless Brother
Thank you!
Just so you know, your Amazon link for this tool points to an item that is no longer available...
Have you ever installed vinyl plank on a ceiling?
I want the wood look but not the cost.
great lil tool... but.....say "expansion joint......... one more time"
How do you know which space to use, ie. 1/8, 1/4 1/2 in
In the UK the piggies built their home with brick😂
Joe, come on down to NC to level the floors in my 1946 cabin and install some LVP, it's already prepped and ready for you. ;)
gloria a DEUS POR SE UM SERVO DO SENHOR AMEN AMEN AMEN.
Where do I get adjustable spacers for
Great video. Those spacers are awesome! I can tell you actually use them for your installs. Not just pushing some product. I'm going to get some.
Nice video, I'll use your link.
Ordered the spacers and got them overnight. What is typical spacing away from wall? The spacers allow from 5mm to 20mm?
I would leave a quarter of an inch at minimum.
If you are (like me) doing a smaller installation, you can improvise your spacers using scrap cable that you just tuck under the drywall. When you are done installing, you can just pull the cable out. Now the average CAT6 cable is approximately 3/16th of an inch. Or you can use RG6 coax (which varies between 1/4, 5/16, or 3/8ths of an inch). Or as they say everywhere else, "6 to 10mm")
Great video! Love the tool recommendations, layout and especially the prayer! Wonderful
Lifeproof install kits have co.pletwly different spacers. We used them the first time and not the 2nd time.
Adds roo much gap.
We eyeball it now and works just fine.
They had the large spacer because they want you to use their quarter round molding trim. Which isn't wood. It's wood look trim.
Regular baseboards don't cover enough.
Is the Furnishing Flipping Teacher girl your daughter? You guys look exactly alike lol. Thanks for all your videos btw! I am doing my own vinyl floor thanks to you !
I think it dispicable that builders use this crap in new builds. Charging a premium for flooring or you get this low budget stuff or vinyl floors.
There are some cheap plank brands out there, but I don't agree with you at all, that all of it is bad. You must be a wood installer.
Man I brought all the flooring and accessories and started my basement found out it was way too uneven, pulled it all up put dowm 500lbs of quick leveling cement, clearly ain't do that right, finally called in pro and he quoted me a price I just can't afford so now I waisted all this time and money and i still don't have a floor
Email me my friend, I will try to give you some help. floormechanics@gmail.com
A Brother in Christ and Do floors like me. Thats a SUB!!! May the Lord Continue to Bless you brother.
Or you can get wood colored culk ..
HE is with us because HE never leaves us. Some very good tips. Thanks for the tip, tricks and tools. And of course the prayers. HE said that HE would not ever leave us. Blessings brother.
Hey Joe. I clicked on your latest video. I was just scrolling through. It was a great and informative video by the way. But that's not the reason I'm commenting here. Second time I've ever commented on youtube. This is what hit me... at the end of your video you said a prayer that moved me. I'm not sure if you pray in all your videos, I think you do, and that's awesome. The point is I clicked, watched, enjoyed, and was moved by your prayer. You were praying for me just at the right time when I needed it! All because I clicked on your video? It was meant for me to watch your video, the first day of the new year. l don't believe in coincidences. That's was a special prayer my brother! Thank you!
Great video. But I especially like the prayer. Thank you. Your brother in Christ.
I appreciate that
Hey Joe. I may pick some of these up for my upcoming project. Have you ever delt with the new Smartcore Tile from Lowes? It feels/look more like real tile. I'm wondering if it's a decent product.
I use 1/4” thick paint stir sticks
Dude I appreciate the knowledge, I wasn't expecting the prayer at the end and I am pleasantly surprised thanks 🙏 I and the community are grateful.
More than anything I thank you for that prayer. This is my first time doing flooring and I am asking God for patience. I feel like everything I’m trying isn’t working the way I’d like
Joe I really appreciate your videos, and most of all your faith with our Lord Jesus Christ. Thank you for your prayers.
God bless you and your family, from us in the wales u.k. thank you for sharing your skills,
A floating floor can be adjusted as you build it, there's no need to cut holes in the wall. There's no doubt these spacers are nice but I've never had trouble with the face to face snap shims or the reversible T shims with 1/4", 1/8".
The advice I'd really give folks is to put their hands on the boards as they install them. Really manhandling them and feeling the snap and lock edges going in as you tap them with your block. The touch and feel of instalation is the biggested difference in a quality instalation that doesn't fall apart later.
I just thought of this but why not just use drywall screws? Most floors are osb, plywood anyways. Maybe put some tape around the sharp threads but tbh just putting some screws in at the gap you want seems hella lucrative.
Can you get in scotland
Yes
Thanks 😊
Going to get some of these for my next job. Love your videos great help. Thanks
I have 2 Questions ? I installed laminate 12 mill flooring in hall and all three bedrooms no transition using your technique. My only question is what do I do with closet bifold door can I put the hinge bracket on top of the laminate floor or do I have to cut it out and put them on the original floor. are laminate cutters Supposed to go all the way through the flooring material.
Thanks vinnie
Here's a dumb question. Is it possible to lay that black spacer onto the plank like you did with the red spacer.
You can turn the spacer on its side and it will still not work if there is a gap between the floor and sheetrock.
Honestly I've been using these spacers since May. But thanks for all of your videos
Thanks for your great videos. You hit home when you said its only 1 plank at a time. Try it, if you blow it, try it again. That is diy right there. With videos like yours, the job will be more enjoyable.
Thank you Joe for the good advice. I'm going to be referencing your videos when we do our house. You may even get a phone call for directions. And God bless you too.
I have used those spacers now for over 3 yrs. Bar none the best investment I’ve made. I bought 16 blocks
Why don't you lay the first Spacers down on their sides ? Why do you think they should be vertical ?
Just ordered 12 of them ! Great 💡
Good choice!
Great tips, thank you! I have a project coming up and these tips are just what I needed.
U seem to always tap the flooring in so easy on videos but I’ve found u really have to hit hard with a piece of the same flooring that I’m using I just don’t believe it’s that easy and those ends and sides break off so easily tapping with a nkock
Amen to this. I ended up making a set of short 2x4s, with a 1/4" strip attached at the bottom as a lip / spacer.
Thank you Joe, I’m glad to see the flooring reviews up as well. Happy New Year to You and Your Family. Thank you. 🎉
I've used scrap pieces of luan and screwed them into the wall thru into the base plate.
Or you don’t use the spacer you use a plank use your knife cut the lip off one side the panel sit it up against the wall use some frog or any masking use it to hold the plank and not you have a plank spacer
I was thinking use some drywall screws even for a border.
Great tip on the spacers, I didn't know they existed! Now a tip for you! Ever get a smudge on a laminate floor that just won't come off or shine up? Try the old foaming Gorilla Glue! A fraction of a drop rubbed on with your finger leaves a very hard, very shiny film. You have to rub in on very thin so it can't foam. Thanks for the lovely prayer, Happy New Year Joe!
Thank you for your knowledge and kindness! God bless 🙏🏻
Very good. Refreshing change showing your faith.
I am very nervous in starting my floor but I will follow your instructions in your boot camp!
The spacer item linked on amazon is unavailable :(
I use these because I’m a cheap bastard and don’t want to spend 40$ on the metal one. The only thing I really hated on these is that they have ridges on the part that comes down where the plank rests against it had to cut those off after separating the starter row trying to remove them.
Why are spacers necessary?
Thank you for the prayer! God bless you!
Cab you provide a link on where to buy this spacer?
How does this work in new construction where the drywall is 3/4 to 1 inch off the floor?
They work great!
No the hardest part is nailing in super small concrete nails on busted concrete.
Use a hammer drill and 3/4 fluted nails.