Cover Floor With What?

contemplating turning the whole bedroom into a flower room. Do i have to rip up the carpet or can i cover it with something. what?
a tent removable floor would be nice and waterproof. don't see them sold separately anywhere.

Smokey

Folks say carpet is bad and I can see their point, its one more place to harbour pests and mould. I have carpet but grow in tents, I keep carpet down because it helps with noise.
I think its best to remove it when possible though, but you can get stick on film that's used for protecting carpets during decorating, lots of that sealing everything an inch up the skirting boards, I wouldn't want to be spilling water on it though.
Still better to take up the carpet and roll it up and keep it (if its not your house)
The phrase "better safe than sorry" springs to mind.

it is my house. but i have a rental suite downstairs under this room. i would like to keep the carpet for noise reduction. I would like something thicker than just plastic. dragging pots etc i am sure the plastic will tear.

smokey

get you a piece of linoleum to lay down, and just make use the edges are higher than the center. Or just find some totes big enough to fit the pots in. Those short, but long and wide clear totes work great for this. If you don't want them just chilling in their runoff you could set them on a steel rack in the tote. I have several of those cheap steel shelves you can get at walmart for relatively cheap, and I rarely use the top shelves of them.

pond liner on ebay. its pricey but its thick as hell. after flooding my upstairs spare 3 times and ruining the hardwood ive learned my lesson.
its thick enough to walk on safely without risk of puncture as long as you dont have a bunch of sharp rocks in your shoe lol.
i think i got a 10x10 for around a hundred or so. heavy as hell. just make sure you get the one that says its plant and fish safe. if its safe for pond fish its fine for the plants. i think its the EPDM version.

you can make a frame with 1x6's etc and then attach the pond liner with a staple gun to the room if you dont wanna do the whole room or just thumb tack it to the wall every few inches. i could dump a couple hundred gallons upstairs without fear.

Get some 6 ml plastic Home Depot cover floor

pond liner sounds like the way to go. i will look into it

6ml poly is way to thin and WILL tear.

smokey

I use it to make custom size flood tables as well. Works great

Smokey57 said:

pond liner sounds like the way to go. i will look into it

6ml poly is way to thin and WILL tear.

smokey

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Pond liner for sure.

I bought dog kennel pans. They aren't that cheap, but very effective. About $50 each for the large ones are Petsmart. Two of them fit perfectly side by side in a 5x5 tent, with about 10 inches or so of room to step into the tent. If you are going to have tables going across the pans, just run a piece of duct tape down the seam to connect the two sides so runoff doesn't miss the pans. They have other sizes that would probably work for smaller tents.

I also bought a bunch of rubber boot mats for $3 on black Friday at Menards, and they are great for containing run off. I've seen pretty cheap plastic ones here and there too for about $4. I use them to set pots on if I'm pulling them out of the tent to rearrange or anything like that.

You could get a garage floor mat. Costco has a 8x20 diamond tread mat for $200. Not the cheapest, but pond liner isn't all that cheap either. But I think that would be a one time, no hassel solution. You wouldn't even have to worry about it ripping.

Just remember anytime you put something on the floor.

Unless you air seal it moisture can crawl under it.

Just saying.


I made a giant plastic pan and glued it to my subfloor lol only cost 40 bucks not includding the glue for a 8x8