New Floor - what to do with table mounts?

turbojimmy wrote:

TakingThe5th wrote:
Wondering if a folding table might work for you. Not sure what size table you currently have or where you stow it but this might be a more flexible solution being able to put the table anywhere.

Edited - Or maybe put some folding legs on your current table?

It's a big, heavy table that we stow in a closet. The legs stow under the couch. A folding table might be a better option given how little we use the existing one. I've been a stickler for keeping things original, but if it's not useful or inefficient then maybe it needs to go. It would be cleaner to install the floor over the existing mounts and put a more modern folding table in the closet instead.

Thanks for the food for thought....

You can always stash the original table and hardware in storage somewhere and relatively easily go back to it if the folding table proves too anachronistic or something. The only requirement would be to carefully measure where the centers of the holes in the floor are relative to some fixed points. To put the sockets in, you'd just have to locate these centers (plus or minus a half inch or less, probably), drill a hole, and use e.g. a router with a template following bit to cut the laminate flooring to match. (If you aren't familiar with it, this bit is basically a straight bit with a bearing on the end; the bearing rides the template, or in this case the hole in the subfloor, and the cutter cuts the material above to match.)