Traffic Master Engineered Floor from HD-Pool Table?
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Comments (29)LL: I love pink and green together. Especially those particular shades. Your idea would look incredible built out, but you are adding square footage again! ;) And oh, the sunroom got bigger... I love that! Mrs. Pete: Again, some good ideas. I think we are overbathed too, and trying to figure out how to remedy that. The master bath is a "split" bath, with a shower in one and a tub in the other, so really there is just an extra toilet. But the plumbing is an issue. My hubby really wanted his own "zone" away from all the girly stuff, so I'd love to accommodate his few requests, since I feel like I am getting so much! And I'd like to have the girls and boys have their own bathing space, however small. I suppose I could get rid of the powder room, but I've been advised against it and told that it will be hugely useful to have one in addition to the guest bath... especially when we have extended stay (over a month) grandparents stay. But the guest room/bath layout by LL from earlier might work really good as a dual purpose bath. Right about the fireplace, just a whim and likely will get cut. But I love the idea! Good toy closet ideas... I have some big plans for the storage, and yes, it will likely serve as additional linen storage/sleeping back storage, etc. and I think I will use your idea about the key! Fabulous. The "bump out" in the boys bath/closet area is actually the second gable coming off of the house above the guest area. The front elevation would look realllly weird to us without the continuous and prominent gable, and the designer is trying to get all the boxes to "line" up structurally for various reasons. I'm not sure saving 20-30 square feet here would really save us money, but I will look into it. The deadline: Big sigh. You are right of course. We can't actually "build" until next spring (winter creek restrictions) but the grading permit (and bidding) needs to be filed asap to get through fish in game during that time. We have a site approval deadline though that we are trying to utilize and it is already a few years old, we had to extend it already and it is on it's last leg, so to speak. The lot escrow took much longer than expected. So... do I make quick decisions and live with some "imperfect" designs and save a huge amount of money? Or do I wait for the perfect design, add 100K to the cost to build, risk a much higher interest rate, a higher cost per square foot (already a 30% jump for 8 months ago!) and live in a rental for another 3 years :(? (re-applying for site approval is expensive and opens up a slew of environmental restrictions that have to be updated and re-done which could actually prevent the build). I think the county would love to turn this back into agricultural, non-buildable land. We decided it's not worth the risk to wait. But... the benefit is my sweet husband is being very accommodating right now. :))) And... I have all this great help and support. The market here is such that we couldn't find anything close to fitting our needs without a major remodel (a nightmare if you homeschool) and addition, and even those were going for obscene amounts and cash only offers. Unique land situation for sure, but I'm still happy to have it! My biggest fear is that we wouldn't get a good basic first design to start with, but I think we are almost there, with a few tweaks. Once a builder looks at it next week, we should have some more cost saving ideas to implement too. I also think I can fiddle with the kitchen layout a little longer, since it won't change the footprint of the house....See MoreHD Traffic Master Engineering Wood Florring
Comments (8)Your being fed a bunch of bull!! If the flooring read 27% you would see visable standing water on it. When oak gets to 24% it is totally saturated and cannot hold anymore water!!!! Delamination is a manufacturing defect. No if's, and's, or but's about it!!! Here is the standard. Nothing inside your home, besides a flood completely submerging the flooring, will come close to the failure test. The American National Standard for Engineered Wood Flooring, ANSI/HPVA EF 2002 3.5 Bond Line All adjacent surfaces of each ply shall be uniformly and securely bonded. The flooring shall conform to the requirements of the bond test described in 4.2 3.7 Construction The flooring pieces shall be of balanced construction, which means that they are free from warp or twist to the extent that they do not interfere with the installation or negatively affect the intended use of the product. The purpose of this requirement is to provide a product which will perform satisfactorily over the typical range of humidity and temperature in an indoor environment, when installed according to the instructions of the manufacturer. Any construction with an even or odd number of plies, and any combination of thicknesses and shrinkage characteristics that meets the requirement for balanced construction is permitted. No two adjacent plies shall have coinciding openings greater than 12.7 mm (1/2 inch) 4.2 Bond Line Test Two test specimens, 50.8 mm (2 inches) wide by 127 mm (5 inches) along the grain, shall be cut from each flooring sample tested. The specimens shall be cut from opposite sides of the flooring after all tongue and groove portions have been removed. The specimens shall be submerged in water at 24 C+-3C (75 F +-5F) for 4 hours, and then dried at a temperature between 49 and 52 C (120 and 125 F) for 19 hours, with sufficient air circulation to lower the moisture content (based on oven-dry weight) of the specimens to a maximum of 8 percent. This cycle shall be repeated until all specimens fail or until thr ee cycles have been completed, whichever occurs first. The flooring shall be considered as failing when any single delamination between two plies of either specimen is greater than 50.8 mm (2 inches) in continuous length, over 6.4 mm (1/4 inch) in depth at any pint, and 0.08 mm (.003 inch) in width as determined by a feeler gauge 0.08 mm (0.003 inches) thick and 12.7 mm (1/2 inch) wide. Specimens shall be examined for delamination at the end of each cycle. Delamination due to tape at joints or inner plies or defects allowed by the grade shall be disregarded. For performing the bond line test, the flooring samples shall be selected in multiples of ten in order to provide for a sufficient number of specimens (two specimens per sample) to which the acceptance levels are applied. Ninety-five percent of test specimens shall pass the first cycle, and eighty- five percent of test specimens shall pass the third cycle....See MoreDebating flooring choices for high traffic FR
Comments (29)I would compromise and install a very good prefinished real hardwood floor. No one wants the mess & aggravation of refinishing a floor in a house that's occupied. With the extremely durable factory finishes available that are treated to limit being affected by sunlight & abrasion, and the limited availability of skilled tradesmen claiming to be able to install a wood floor from scratch, especially a wide plank, I'd want to select a product and know exactly what I could expect the finished outcome to be. You can check the Flooring Forum and read all the posters complaining the stain color on the floor was not what they expected when they hired guys to install a from-scratch wood floor. Any type of premium vinyl flooring is not stable. Over time, with changes in humidity, the vinyl will shrink and the seams will open. In addition, it's a soft material that can be cut by a stone on the bottom of a shoe or ripped by a high heel missing an end cap. In addition, light colors tend to permanently stain from asphalt driveway material (petrol-chemical) that can be tracked in the bottom of athletic shoes. The only vinyl flooring I would ever consider installing is referred to as VCT (vinyl composition tile as opposed to solid or luxury vinyl) and is used mostly in commercial installations....See MoreEngineered Hardwood Floors
Comments (23)LM is the brand. I live in Texas also. I bought mine at a local floor shop. I have them in the kitchen, living area, halls, and utility room with no problems so far. We also have a dog. They're 3/4" thickness with aluminum oxide finish. LM has a lot to choose from as far as plank size and finishes. Look up LM Flooring. They have good reviews and also a good warranty. I have a great floor guy and he said they were good quality floors. I've also had other engineered hardwood floors that peeled like a layer of plastic when they scratched like you said above....See Morekristenfl
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