What is your favorite wood flooring?...looking at BR 111...
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BR111 Wenge Hardwood Flooring
Comments (10)hi i am glad you are considering one of BR111's high quality floors. Wenge is a very unique and exclusive specie, not widely offered as prefinished flooring due to its high costs, due to usages for special panels and specialty projects like high end decorative pieces, etc. The hardness is nothing to worry about,if compared to read oak (1.290 psi). BR111 wenge has 8 coats of high resistant UV finishes applied to it from BONA which re enforces its beauty and durability, allowing us to offer a 50 years warranty. We are the only ones offering this product, as many others species of which we were the pioneer in this industry. We have just sold a 30K sq.ft. job to a museum in NY which should take installation sometime next year. Please feel free to call us should you have any concerns or future questions. Finally wenge is one of the very feel species that can be found in nature, which presents us with a dark natural color as compared to other options that are mainly stained with dark stains to try to copy it. thanks....See MoreBR111 Engineered Wood Flooring
Comments (5)It is not the BR-111 wood flooring your so quick to blame!!! There is nothing wrong with the wood flooring. The problem lies with the installer and his lack of knowledge of moisture and it's relation to wood. I bet he does not own a moisture meter, and if he has one, he does not know what the numbers mean. Br-111 is not buying you a thing!!! This is on you and for you to fix your sick home....See MoreFloating 3.25' Triangulo BR-111 Engineered Brazilian Cherry
Comments (6)Phila_2009, thank you for replying. I guess everyone pulls up my rug and padding and feels it and tells me they are impressed at how dry it is without doing any tests. I had a new installer in today that was in out and out so quick which made me happy since others keep hanging around for hours and I can't get my work done. He measured and pulled up the rug and put plastic taped down in several sections that he told me to leave on for at least 24 hours and then also looked inside the air conditioner vents and said it looked like the slab had plastic moisture barriers between slabs and that the water way deep in back of my fence is because they sloped it downwards to have water stay away from my house with a good drainage system. When we had Hurricane Floyd here about 9.75 years ago, roads around me flooded but my townhouse complex stayed dry including the roads and the road in front of my complex despite the townhouse complex being built on the preserved wetlands. Another friend is coming by at 7 PM tonight with a moisture meter to test the moisture in the floor. I was impressed with this installer who told me I only had to remove three of the 5-drawer 42" file cabinets from the room and make sure the other cabinets had the drawers removed and the two supply cabinets had the supplies out. He also wanted all computers and desk supplies out. He said his men could move everything as they worked and I would not have to empty out the three rooms as others have told me I would have to. He also brought over samples of 5" wide GV Brazilian Cherry Engineered wood and GV Santos Mahogany and told me he would give me an installed price for these two woods and just in install price with the quarter round and supplies for the BR-111 3.25" Brazilian Cherry Triangulo Floors since he felt if I wished to go with that, he felt I should order it online for the inexpensive price I got and have the wood sit here for several days and he would install that. Does anyone know if GV Floors is a good product? Is this a sawn cut like I was told it is? It is 9/16th thick and looks like a 2 MM real wood on top while the BR-111 has 3 MM on top but maybe 2 MM is all I need? So if the floor is tested dry, you would glue the floor. Thank you for letting me know. I appreciate your help. I am so excited that soon my flooring project may be done with. This 19.5 year old carpet is shot and I can't wait for it to be gone! Tomorrow I will get his estimates and then make my decision on which installer to use and get this set up already so I can get back to concentrating on my work. I will let everyone know what the moisture tests say since I was ready to either seal the floor first or float it and not just glue it down but now it really looks like my slab is dry....See MoreBR-111 5' planks 1/2' thick engineered wood- how much extra?
Comments (7)Thank you Annz. One of the installers called me back so he is the one I will use to install the floor. He is the middle of the price range and he told me he will take a break from the job he is on tomorrow to come by to let me know exactly what we need but from my description he feels I need 2 T-moldings (88" long and I need 4" more than this from my measurements for the two areas) and the reducer will not be good if the area is only a 1/8th difference. But he will see for sure and bring a floating pad and a 1/2" board. He also will let me know the exact number of reducers we will need since they are not returnable I just found out. He feels we have enough extra waste for the wood and he is very good at not wasting wood and is good at what he does. Hence, I guess I will wait for him to arrive tomorrow. Truehardwoods.com has been so patient with me and will give me a few more days (they have the order in the system but it is not yet sent to their distributor) to be sure about what I need as well as let me know which glue I ordered to allow me to change the wood glue to waterproof glue between the seams. Another installer just called me back and had no idea and that is not a good sign. So if the installer comes by tomorrow that called earlier, he has the job. I guess I better get back to my work and get a good night's sleep tonight and see what the installer has to stay that is stopping by tomorrow....See Moreremodelzombie
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