Floor protection while work is in progress

[russellpeters]

Dear Forum Members,

What is the best and most cost-effective way to protect your floors where work is going on inside the house or in the back yard?

I live in a house where the access to the back yard is only via the house and that too a particularly narrow corridor/hallway. As you can imagine carrying material (topsoil, deckboards etc.) and bringing out waste (concrete rubble, tree branches, garden waste etc.) is cumbersome, tedious and often damages the floor surface.

Till now we have either used cardboards (especially long ones from Ikea furniture) or pieces of old carpet to line the floor and try and protect it as much as possible. While these work reasonably well it is not easy to store the cardboard pieces or carpet pieces for future use.

Do you have any ideas on what might work better? Reusing the floor protection is desirable but not necessary if it is cheap enough.

 

[xr4x4]

You can get rolls of sticky film, we use it a lot on carpets and floors in the houses we work on.

 

[russellpeters]

Paul, is there a specific brand you recommend?

 

[xr4x4]

Not really, my boss picks them up.

You can get them from brewers etc.

You can get some less sticky stuff for laminate flooring.