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Verified flooring case study • Farmington, CT • Completed June 2026
Replace the old kitchen tile with a warm wood-look floor
Residential Project · Residential Home
The problem
This approximately 300-square-foot Farmington kitchen project started with tile removal — and the removal exposed an underlying layer requiring professional asbestos abatement. Floors Now's flooring crew stopped there: abatement is a specialized scope that flooring crews don't perform, so a separate asbestos-abatement contractor completed that work while the flooring project paused for about a week.
When the crew returned, the exposed substrate needed rebuilding before the new floor could go down. They installed and prepared plywood underlayment, then used PROMA Pro Patch for localized surface correction — the kind of step-by-step substrate work older kitchens often need once the original tile is gone and the surface underneath is revealed.
With the plywood and patch preparation complete, approximately 300 square feet of warm wood-look rigid-core LVP was installed. Floors Now's flooring work took two full onsite days across the two visits. The project shows how an unexpected discovery mid-project is handled: pause the flooring, let the right specialists finish their scope, then come back and complete the floor properly.
Project overview
In June 2026, Floors Now began this approximately 300-square-foot Farmington kitchen project by removing the old tile. When removal exposed an underlying layer requiring professional asbestos abatement, the flooring crew paused and a separate asbestos-abatement contractor completed that specialized scope. About one week later, Floors Now returned, installed and prepared plywood underlayment, used PROMA Pro Patch for localized surface correction, and completed the warm wood-look rigid-core LVP installation. Floors Now's flooring work required two full onsite days across the two visits.
Project facts
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Scope of work
After a specialized abatement pause, plywood and patch preparation readied the kitchen for rigid-core LVP.
Common questions
No. Floors Now's flooring crew does not perform asbestos abatement. On this project, when tile removal exposed a layer requiring professional asbestos abatement, a separate asbestos-abatement contractor completed that specialized scope, and our flooring work resumed about a week later.
Our flooring work on this kitchen took two full onsite days, spread across two visits: the initial tile removal, then the return visit about a week later for the plywood underlayment, patch preparation, and the LVP installation. The separate abatement work was performed by a different contractor in between.
The pause happened because tile removal exposed an underlying layer requiring professional asbestos abatement — work that can only be handled by a qualified abatement contractor. Flooring work resumed about a week later, after that separate scope was properly completed.
On this kitchen we used PROMA Pro Patch for localized surface correction after installing and preparing plywood underlayment. A patch product fills and smooths specific low spots, seams, or imperfections in the prepared substrate so the rigid-core LVP sits on an even surface.
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