When Should You Redo Your Flooring?
By Edmund Brunetti While most people think about wanting their flooring redone when it's old, cracked, and eaten away, that's often the most expensive time to do it. Your floor gives you plenty of warning signs when it's time to be pulled up and replaced with a new one, so knowing when to redo your floors and when not to is a good bit of knowledge to have. First, you don't always have to redo all of your floors. Sometimes only certain parts of the floor are damaged while the rest of them are completely fine. So before you start tearing out every bit of floorboard, make sure to assess which parts are damaged and which parts are still good. You might be able to just replace the broken tiles or the rotted wood, for a much lower price. You can spruce up most floors with a bit of sanding and scrubbing or, if they're tiled, by redoing the grout. However, if the flooring is old, smells, or the damage has gone through most or all of the floor, then you probably need...