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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 MoreLyptus, BR111 or Mannington engineered wood
Comments (1)I also would like feedback on these three brands with their Amendoim species engineered hardwood flooring or the Lyptus flooring which is similar but in person it was lighter when I brought samples home. I am thinking I like planks in my home no more than 4.5" wide with 3.25" to 4" looking the best due to the layout of my furniture. I had my heart set on Brazilian Cherry floors but I am just so afraid of how dark they can become since I like to work in a bright office. I know I would love the Brazilian Cherry in my family room since that room needs color but in my home office I am so afraid it will be so much ligher on one side of the room that gets none of the windows light since it is blocked by a half of a wall high and long....See MoreJust bought 1200 sf of hardwood from Brazilian Direct online
Comments (23)onelady1dog2girls, Thank you for thinking of me. I did check out the website and that Sunset Glow Hickory sounds beautiful (and was pretty in the picture) but it is a solid wood only. I live in the preserved wetlands and my floor is concrete with no basement due to the area I live in. I have made up my mind that I only want a prefinished engineered wood floor. I also have 8 foot ceilings. I was not that crazy about the new version of the 5" wide Engineered wood flooring from Brazilian Direct despite really liking the company and Shannon. I loved their solid wood samples last year and I really loved their solid Kempas Samples. I wish they had engineered wood floors in a 3.25" width. A solid wood floor over a plywood floor will raise my floor up much higher than my tiled foyer floors and my kitchen floor and make my ceiling look lower in my living room and dining room (which both are my two room home office). My family room has a Cathedral ceiling so it could handle the floor being raised despite the kitchen floor lower but I think solid wood is not right for my type of concrete sub-floor. I preferred Brazilian Direct's engineered wood floor sample from last year despite a lesser veneer sawn layer on top. I just really feel I am leaning towards a floor no wider than 4" and preferably 3.25 to 3.5" wide to minimize cupping problems. I really like the finish on the BR-111 3.25" wide plank samples I have here that is not too glossy but has a drop of gloss. Despite the 3/8th being the same height as my new Porcelain Tiles, I just wish the planks were 1/2" thick with the same 3 MM wear layer. But then again, the semi-gloss finish on the Coswick Quartersawn Oak Engineered floors is nice also....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 Morericew0
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