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Home > Search for DIY Projects by Trade Type > DIY Projects Covering Floors, Walls and Ceilings > DIY Projects Covering Laying Carpets and Timber Floors

DIY Projects Covering Laying Carpets and Timber Floors

This page includes links to all of our Flooring DIY how to projects with advice covering everything from how to lay carpets to cleaning and sealing stone floors. Please browse through the below list and click on your chosen link to view the project information or if your question is not addressed here use the search box above.

  • Carpeting a stair case

    Carpet - How to measure stairs for carpet - In this DIY guide learn how to measure stairs for carpet correctly to ensure the carpet fits and you minimise waste


  • How to Carpet Stairs and Fit Carpet on a Staircase

    Carpets - how to carpet stairs - Step by step guide to how to lay carpet on stairs. Learn how to measure, fit and cut carpet for your stairs and ensure it's fixed correctly


  • Laying Carpet Underlay

    Carpets - how to lay carpet underlay - Learn all about how to lay carpet underlay correctly so that it preserves the life of the carpet and the types of underlay and which to use


  • Laying a Carpet

    Carpets - laying carpets - How to fit carpet correctly. A guide to laying fitted carpets, underlay and carpet with integral underlay yourself.


  • Engineered wood flooring

    Engineered Wood Flooring - How to lay an engineered wood floor - Learn how to lay engineered wood flooring including the best underlay to use, laying around odd shapes and keeping everything square


  • How to Fill Gaps in Floorboards and Seal Floorboards

    Flooring - filling floorboard gaps - Learn all about how to fill gaps in floor boards and stopping draughts from coming up from the floor and how to seal floorboard draughts


  • How to Stop Creaking Floors and Creaking Stairs

    Flooring - fixing creaking floors and stairs - How to stop floorboards creaking - Find out why floor boards creak and why stairs creak and how to stop them making noise


  • How to Measure Flooring

    Flooring - floor area measurement - How to measure the floor area of a room or floor space for carpet, tiles, lino, floorboards, laminate and other floor coverings


  • Laying Laminate Flooring

    Flooring - laminate floor laying - Learn how to lay laminate flooring correctly including selecting underlay, filling gaps, marking out the flooring and fitting skirting


  • Laying Floor Boards

    Flooring - laying floor boards - Learn all about how to lay floorboards over a floating timber floor. Guide to how to plan, cut and lay floor boarding


  • Laying Vinyl Tile

    Flooring - laying vinyl tile or vinyl plank floors - How to lay vinyl tile or vinyl plank flooring, prepare the existing floor surface to lay vinyl planks on top. How and maintain a vinyl floor


  • Laying Waterproof Laminate Flooring for a Kitchen or Bathroom

    Flooring - laying waterproof flooring - How to lay waterproof laminate flooring in your kitchen or bathroom. Fitting snap together laminate flooring


  • Levelling Floor Joists: How to Level an Old Floors

    Flooring - levelling joists - Learn all about levelling floor joists and how to get an old floor level again. Learn about levelling old floors and replacing timber joists


  • Flooring in the Loft or Attic

    Flooring - loft flooring - Learn all about how to board a loft and lay attic flooring to create much more useful storage space in your home


  • Non-Slip Flooring

    Flooring - non slip flooring - In this DIY guide learn how to install non-slip safety flooring and floor coverings for the home and see how they can make your home safer


  • Sanding a Timber Floor

    Flooring - sanding a timber floor - In this DIY guide, learn how to sand a wooden floor and floorboards correctly to get a great, lasting and professional finish


  • Replacing a Timber Floor

    Flooring - timber floor replacement - Learn all about replacing a timber floor and how to replace timber floorboards, sole plates and joists, particularly in old houses


  • Suspended Timber Floor

    Flooring - timber or hollow floors - In this DIY guide you will learn how to build a floating floor from timber aka a floating hollow floor and what regulations apply


  • Installing Underfloor Insulation and Water and Electric Underfloor Heating on Concrete and Timber Floors

    Insulation - underfloor insulation - In this DIY project guide we show you how to properly insulate timber and concrete floors ready for installing underfloor heating


  • A guide to levelling concrete flooring and floor screed using a floor levelling compound

    Levelling concrete floors and floor levelling compound - Find out how to level a concrete floor using a levelling compound or screed to lay floor tiles, laminate flooring, carpets or vinyl


  • How to Remove Vinyl Flooring

    Lino and vinyl removal - Learn all about how to remove vinyl flooring, lino and vinyl tiles and then once removed how to get rid of the glue residue


  • Liquid screed poured

    Liquid Screed - How to prepare and lay a liquid screed - In this DIY guide we run through the process of what’s involved in laying a liquid screed including the different types of liquid screed


  • Timber rot caused by damp and condensation in loft

    Loft Ventilation - How to ventilate a loft correctly - In this DIY guide you will learn how to spot condensation issues in your loft and also lear how to fix any that occur


  • Screeding a Floor

    Screeding a floor - Learn how to screed a floor like the pro's and lay a flat and level base including how to correctly mix floor screed


Your room (and indeed you whole home) will be defined by the choice you make when laying a floor, whether that is a solid floor, laminate floor, engineered hardwood floor, oak floor, or a softwood timber floor like floorboards or parquet flooring. If you have a solid floor you might just want to soften it with a rug, or you may choose to go down the lines of laying a laminate floor, fitting carpet or laying tiles.

Timber floors often feel much warmer than tiled floors

Timber floors often feel much warmer than tiled floors

Floor tiles are a great choice for rooms where you are likely to get spills such as kitchens or bathrooms, or in areas where you may get high traffic like hallways or corridors. Ceramic, quarry tles or stone floor tiles can be a bit cold in the UK. They are also unforgiving if you drop crockery or glassware on them, so you could opt for vinyl flooring, cork tiles or lino. There are even specialist floor coverings such as Amtico, which can be fitted with a very ornate design if you have a room that will suit it.

If you have a solid floor you could consider fitting underfloor heating to combat that cold feeling underfoot. Whether you have a heated floor or not, you need to make sure your floor is flat and level before laying flooring to ensure that the floor covering doesn’t crack or wear unevenly. See our advice on leveling a concrete floor with floor screed.

Timber floors, parquet floors and exposed floorboards can all impart charm and character to a room, and they are naturally warmer surfaces. Although you will need to protect them against moisture and water leaks, especially if they are used as kitchens and bathroom floors, of course we have a project on floor finishes in this section. Wooden floors can get marked if they are not cared for, for example heat and water can discolour wood and stiletto heels can cause damage.

We have advice on painting and sanding a wooden floor as well as fixing a creaking floorboard. If you are sanding floorboards you must make sure to sand along the gain to avoid unsightly scratches and scuffs.

If you are ordering flooring you will need to work out the floor area and you can use our guide: How to measure flooring to help you.

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