Matt
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| Price for Tongue and Groove Hardwood?
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If we do it ourselves, using high quality flooring, what are we looking at with regard to price? |
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LBDSL
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Auburn Hills, MI | There is no way for anyone on the net to give you that info. It will vary on the quality and type of wood, not to mention where you buy from.
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caddyroger
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said by Matt  :My girl and I want to pull up our carpet and put down tongue and groove hardwood. We want to do it in the living room, hallway, and dining room. If we do it ourselves, using high quality flooring, what are we looking at with regard to price? Just as LBDSL stated it depends what type of wood, quality, prefinished or unfinished wood
The best is to take the measurements and go have a estimate done on the amout of wood and trimming for the doorways.
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Jtmo
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»www.lumberliquidators.com/home.jsp |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | reply to Matt
Fair enough.
Any brands that are known to be high quality that I'd find at Lowe's or Home Depot? |
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robbin
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Leander, TX | What exactly are you looking for -- unfinished hardwood, engineered wood or laminate flooring? |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | Laminate flooring unless there are benefits to others? I definitely don't want to mess with sanding and staining. |
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robbin
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| Laminate and hardwood are two separate species. Basically a laminate floor is a Formica floor. An engineered floor can have a thin layer of hardwood on top and it may be possible to sand and refinish one time. A real hardwood floor can be refinished many times! |
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Matt
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Jamestown, NC | reply to Matt
/me thinks I need to do a lot more research.
I know the look I'm after, but I don't know what the product used was. I know it wasn't real "nailed down" hardwood though. |
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Greg_Z
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Springfield, IL | reply to Matt
Do you have a Lumber Liquidators near you, or Habitat for Humanity Store?
»www.lumberliquidators.com/home.jsp |
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Matt
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| Yep. Definitely a Lumber Liquidators and we have something called a Habitat for Humanity "Re-store". |
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wings10
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Well looking at your room sizes we had about the same amount of flooring bought and installed by Lowes about 2 years ago and it was $4900. That included all new base board as well.
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cdru
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said by robbin :Laminate and hardwood are two separate species. Basically a laminate floor is a Formica floor. Even then, there are different qualities of laminate. Some are glorified particle board with little more then a piece of glued on paper on top with a thin varnish on top of that. This is what you are going to be getting for the $.89/sq ft at the big box stores. Premium laminates are going to be made from a more composite material. Some can be exposed to more moisture then what the particle board versions can without warping/swelling and are very wear resistant.
There are also a few different methods for them to fasten to one another. Some are a basic tongue and grove like that need to be glued together and just tap into place. Others you assemble and entire row end to end, and then tip the entire row up and attach to the previous road. If you are doing long spans though like what your hallway/family room would be, this can be tricky without a few extra people. There are others also that are a combination and each piece gets attached by itself (or maybe just by slightly lifting the previous. |
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Goober
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It sounds like you're looking for a click-together floating engineered floor. Kahrs makes very nice ones. But, I believe you pay for the quality.
Here's a link to some click together solid and engineered. I prefer the look of these product much more than laminate.
»www.hoskinghardwood.com/Hardwood···ing.aspx
I've ordered from these guys before. They are very good in service and price. |
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Goober
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Naperville, IL | reply to Matt
What did you end up going with? |
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Matt
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| said by Goober :What did you end up going with? Nothing yet. This is for a winter project. Just doing research right now. |
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Goober
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Anyway, report back with pictures and status updates. |
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JimmySask
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As others have mentioned, it is going to vary by area. Around here, true hardwood floors go for $4/sq ft for low grade to a rough average of $6-7 sq ft, with prices potentially going much higher for certain species of wood. That was the retail prices my parents found when they were looking about 6 months ago. On the other hand, they went to a flooring auction a company in the area puts on about once a month, and as the runner-up bidder (they got to take anything they wanted for their high bid on the given lot of wood after the actual winner took what they wanted at their price) they paid $3 a square foot. This was for red maple, tongue and grove, pre-finished, in random lengths. I believe it was considered a mid grade as random lengths contained a higher percentage of shorter boards than long.
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normat
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There are many things to consider when choosing between hardwood and engineered hardwood. Mainly the species you want, your subflooring, installation method and your climate.
Engineered hardwood flooring isn't necessarily a cheaper alternative than solid hardwood. The benefit to using it is it is dimensionally more stable. The underlying layers of the plywood are arranged with their grains perpendicular to each other. For the humidity sensitive species of wood I wanted I had to go engineered because of the climate I live in. I had to do a glue down method over concrete and the glue almost cost as much as the flooring did. It ran over $300 per 5 gallon bucket.
I found a scrap board that had fallen behind some bushes when I had done the install. It was still in perfect shape after being in the weather (heat, bugs, standing water, UV) for a few years. No warping or delaminating.
A good engineered hardwood can be resurfaced 2-3 times. There is even a limit to hardwood refinishing as you can't sand below the tongue and groove anyway.
There is inferior engineered hardwood which uses a paper thin top layer. Stay away from that stuff.
You can get either type of hardwood flooring pre-finished. It's usually an aluminum oxide finish. There is also a titanium dioxide finish (much better) but it's a bit more expensive and harder to find. The aluminum oxide scratches a bit easier than the titanium and leaves a white mark behind. The white scratch marks seem to go away though.
One word of warning. Once you install the floor you will have this beautiful, pristine hardwood floor. The first few times it takes some damage (and it will) you heart will drop. Eventually it just becomes floor character. |
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scott_urman
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| said by normat :One word of warning. Once you install the floor you will have this beautiful, pristine hardwood floor. The first few times it takes some damage (and it will) you heart will drop. Eventually it just becomes floor character. Darn tooting. And the first scratch comes awfully quick. But you get enough of them that they all blend together.  |
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