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Verified flooring case study • Rocky Hill, CT • Completed October 2026
Bring careful residential installation to a construction professional's own home, pairing a wood-look basement floor with carpeted stairs and finished edges.
Case study published
Residential Project · Residential Home
The problem
The homeowner works in construction removing commercial floors for a living. For his own Rocky Hill home, he wanted a residential flooring company he could trust with the installation and chose Floors Now.
The basement project called for more than laying new flooring. Carpet-pad backing had to be scraped from the concrete and the surface skim coated before the glue-down vinyl installation. The scope also included moving furniture and exercise equipment, finishing baseboards and transitions, and carpeting the stairs.
Project overview
Completed in October 2026, this Rocky Hill basement project combines Philadelphia Commercial Bosk Pro 6 luxury vinyl plank in Light Cherry 00210 with Dixie Home Finery carpet in Nectar on the stairs. The homeowner removes commercial floors for a living and selected Floors Now for the residential installation in his own home. The work included scraping pad backing from concrete, Planiprep SC skim coating, moving furniture and exercise equipment, glue-down vinyl installation, stair carpet, and baseboard and reducer finishing. The vinyl material quantity was 503.3 square feet, with 490 square feet of installation in the scope; stair carpet totaled 108 square feet. All three photographs show the completed work.
Project facts
Project photography
Each image and caption identifies the portion of the verified project that is actually shown.
Scope of work
Concrete preparation, glue-down vinyl, stair carpet, and finishing
Common questions
The basement floor is Philadelphia Commercial Bosk Pro 6 luxury vinyl plank, style 5413V, in Light Cherry 00210. The basement stairs are carpeted in Dixie Home Finery in Nectar. Both were installed as part of this residential project in October 2026.
The vinyl material quantity was 503.3 square feet, while the installation scope listed 490 square feet of glue-down vinyl. The preparation scope covered 445 square feet of scraping carpet-pad backing from concrete and skim coating with Planiprep SC. Stair carpet was a separate 108-square-foot material quantity.
All three photographs show the completed project: two basement floor views and one view of the carpeted stairs. No before photographs are included.
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