When we bought our house and had the closets moved around and the office created it messed up the carpet. We lived with the messed up carpet for a while, but eventually were able to get the carpets replaced with hardwood (well bamboo). I picked a very dark finish. I 100% wish I had gone with a lighter color, but flooring is expensive and there was no way we were going to redo them. I will for sure do a lighter floor from now on. We only had this flooring installed upstairs and on the stairs.
While we love being able to do stuff ourselves, we did pay a company to put our floors in for us. Before they came, we pulled up all of the carpets. We fixed the soft spots in the subfloor and most importantly we removed all of the nails (they squeaked like crazy) and screwed down the boards instead. This process took a hot minute, but was so very worth it.
Even though I would not pick such a dark floor again, the floors do look nice – they just show every bit of dirt and dog hair and that is just not something I have time to deal with.
Until next time,
Leslie
Coffee and Construction Dust 