There are easily over 10,000 different kinds of tools for flooring, most of which are used by installers of various kinds of flooring from carpeting, to tile to concrete covering.  Before any flooring is put down, though the installer will utilize an assortment of layout and measurement tools, in order to be sure that all the work is done with the utmost precision. Today we even have laser measurement tools that are even more precise than other means of measurement.

Next the current floor may have to be taken up. For this job you may need a powered carpet puller, or an automatic floor stripper. There’s one machine that fully describes itself in its name, and that is a surface prep machine. A grinding machine may also come in handy to remove the vestiges of old flooring that remain. There are ride on grinders or hand held grinders. Hand scrapers may also be utilized, but there is even a self-propelled floor stripper that is widely used by commercial flooring installers. Then too there are electric sanders and of course hand sanders. Some will use a grinder-edger, and some will utilize a floor buffing machine with its rotating huge soft pads that take the place of elbow grease.

Now tools for flooring even have special niches, but probably more so when we speak of carpeting. Thus that calls for tack cleats, tack strips, and seam tape as well as double faced installation tape. Then there’s carpet adhesive, different kinds of seam tape of all kinds as well as carpet aluminium drives. Any good carpet installer uses heat bond tape of course and is quite knowledgeable about carpet pad staples or hot melt seam tape.

Floor sealers come in all types from urethane sealers to vinyl sealers.  There are of course acrylics too. But first they usually use self-leveling underlayment concrete. Everyone advertises that they have solvent free this and that, but interestingly enough in various tools for flooring one finds a lot of solvent cleaners!

Of course you will also find caulk, grout and mortars most of which are used to lay tile, and if you do lay tile, you will find a plethora of spreaders of all kinds. Of course there are also rubber floors and all the various glues and such that go along with rubber. Wait till we talk flooring and commercial bathrooms for when the dirty work comes. The link will give you a preview of what we recommend for the job.

Tundra flooring tools often wonders if there should not be a flooring tools museum...?