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hardwood flooring?
Aug 02, 2007 by just me | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling
I am considering hardwood engineered flooring to do it myself. any one have experience that would help me decide. Also, do you have recommendations for suppliers other than Home Depot or Lowes
installing hardwood is not real difficult,but you do need some carpentry skills.......you need two types of saws.........table saw and a (I call it a drop saw)........you need to draw a straight line to begin your boards,you need to know what kind of trim pieces you need for your doors and you need quarter round molding to go along your baseboards.........
you also need to leave an expansion gap of around 3/8" around all your walls and ,forgot this, you need to undercut your door casings with a saw...........
when I do it I have all the tools I need because I do it on a regular basis but the average person may not so you need to think about that before you start and if you do and feel comfortable with the idea of doing it..............
GO FOR IT................
don_vvvvito | Aug 02, 2007
Try looking on lumber liquidators.
It will also calculate the cost. I'm thinking about doing the same thing at my house. Good luck!! As far as actually doing the work.....I figure some good friends (with the know how) and a huge meal with plenty of cold beers afterward will take care of labor part!! lol
http://www.lumberliquidators.com/home.jsp
justme | Aug 02, 2007
Im installing hardwood floor planks. How do I repair a unlevel section of flooring?
Sep 12, 2007 by Aircraft tech 1 | Posted in Maintenance & Repairs
Im installing hardwood floor planks. A section of the floor is about a half of inch lower than the rest of the floor. What type of approach should I take to level flooring? If I use self leveling cement, will the staples or nails be able to penetrate this material into the subfloor?
You will not have good luck stapling/nailing through the cement leveling compound. You are going to have to either fix what is causing the unlevel spot or shim the hardwood.
You can use 1/4" plywood and or layers of 15LB roofing felt.
to shim. You might need to use longer nails in the low spots to be sure they penetrate the subfloor.
This is what my buddy who owns a flooring business told me when I did my floors.
mike b | Sep 13, 2007
How easy is it to install hardwood floor? Is it as easy as laying laminate flooring?
Aug 15, 2007 by sweets_vivian | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)
I have started my own flooring business. Installing laminante and hardwood. While I am experienced in laminante, I have not had the oppurtunity to install hardwood.
I will be installing prefinished tongue and groove haardwood.
That depends on whether you are installing prefinished or unfinished flooring. On prefinished it is not that much more difficult than laminate except you use nails or glue to install it. There are flooring nailers and flooring staplers and you need to know when to use which one. With unfinished it is best to leave that to someone with experiance as the sanding and finishing stages are critical to having a good looking floor. If you are interested in doing quality work, you need to do a lot more research before taking on these floors.
Bitcasso | Aug 15, 2007
What is the best cost effective hardwood flooring?
Mar 06, 2008 by Katie L | Posted in Decorating & Remodeling
I'm thinking about reflooring my family room. I want something that looks like hardwood floors but is very durable and cost effective. Basically I want this best flooring thats cheap, beautiful, and durrable and where I could find it. Thanks so much
solid hardwood is usually your best bet.
although you can spend ALOT more on it, a good floor can be purchased for around $3-$4/ sq ft. and installation usually runs another $1-$2/sq ft. (home depot is very competitively priced for wood). Solid wood will last 100 years , and can always be refinished for a minimal cost to make it look new again. Oak holds up the best for the price and can be purchased in different qualities for different prices, just look over several samples before you make a purchase- cause sometimes a sales person shows you the best sample as where some grades may have minor knots/inconsistancies.
The next best thing to solid wood is engineered wood- which is actually a very thin layer of real solid wood on top of pressed board, they hold up as well and cost around 25% less on average, and can even be refinished or renewed usually once, maybe twice with light use.
As for all these laminate style floors that look like wood- I would never recommend them for the price difference, all it is is a fancy vinyl tile on top of particle board, and yes i know alot of people are happy with their pergo- but ask them again in a few years, because those flooring options just dont hold up , and when they are scratched - you throw them away because they can never be refinished, also no matter what the great warranty on these is - they almost never actually honor that warranty because theres tons of loop holes to it. My boyfreind installed tons of these professionally and after a few years had tons of unhappy customers that thought they had a 10 yr warranty, well he replaced the floors on his own dollar to keep a happy customer and almost went bankrupt because of it. I dont care how much you spend on a laminate - its garbage.
mary h | Mar 07, 2008
Does hardwood flooring really have to be installed perpendicular to the joists under the sub floor?
Apr 08, 2007 by Lee R | Posted in Do It Yourself (DIY)
I am installing hardwood on the lower level of my splitlevel home. Have removed a halfwall between kitchen and diningroom. Would like to install flooring parallel to joists but everything I've read says to install perpendicular. They also recomend laying the flooring parallel to length of room which would put my boards parallel to joists underneath. Any tips or ideas would help.
If you could add 3/4" plywood before installing hardwood it would be strong enough. If not you will run into problems later on.
BN'W | Apr 08, 2007
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