Reality Check-Install cost for sheet vinyl?
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Vinyl Flooring: Do It Yourself Planks vs. Sheet Vinyl Install
Comments (10)I put a high quality, floating floor in my apt kitchen in NYC to help with pet wear and tear. NOT the best option. If one piece needs to be replaced (and with pet accidents it bubbles very easily), you have to undo a whole section because they are interlocked. Also, they just don't look that great, no matter what we paid. So when it came time to make the rest of the apt floor look decent, we switched to vinyl planks from Lowes. Sounds gross, but they're actually amazing looking. Our apt was built in the 1880's, (the original floor was long destroyed and removed before we got it),and I found a dark gunstock in a wider cut that almost matched our neighbor's original floor exactly. You ready for this? 98 cents a sq foot! If one gets damaged you peel it off (with some effort) and put a replacement. Echoflooring is sooo right about batch colors. Get it all at once and mix up the boxes as you lay it. We have a bunch of mixed ones for replacement and haven't used one, not one, but I know we have them. Lowes will recommend their sealer,but we didn't use it. They self stick just fine. One or two spots came up after we were first done and someone on line told us to use a hairdryer to reheat it and lay a book on top overnight. Worked like a dream. Our apt in NY is 800 sq ft and our current tenant is a photographer with two rescue cats and she loves the floor. Even with her keen eye, we had to tell her they were vinyl and how to replace it if she had a pet accident. She was blown away! I will try to post a picture of our NY apt floor for you. To be fair to our tenant the photographer, I took the horrible quality pics w my cell, not her! LOL! Choose wisely for your space and go with your fave, not what everyone says you should do, incl me. And pls do remember the color batch issue echoflooring brought up. Good luck :) Here is a link that might be useful: NYC vinyl plank floor...See MoreReality check on installation of antique heart pine installation
Comments (9)I purchased just over 3000 sq ft of reclaimed heart fine flooring from an established mill dealing only in reclaimed wood. Before I made the purchase, I spoke with virtually every supplier of reclaimed heart pine and obtained samples from most of them. Without question, the most desirable heart pine is the river heart pine which is milled from logs that have been retrieved from a watery grave, so to speak. River heart pine is outrageously expensive, easily upwards of $30 sq ft. Better grades of reclaimed heart pine are in the neighborhood of $20 sq ft. Except for reclaimed heart pine of questionable origin/grade, left-overs from larger runs or "engineered" wood, I haven't seen any in the $8 sq ft range. I would seriously question any supplier who claims to offer antique heart pine for that low price. As for installation and finishing, I quickly discovered that most flooring contractors will not touch reclaimed wood. Those that do charge the preverbial arm and leg. I used an installer recommended by the mill, and I absolutely regret having done so. The entire floor, all 3000+ sq ft, has to be completely refinished. I wrote about that debacle in a separate thread quite some time ago. Getting to the point, before you agree to the exceptionally steep price your contractor wants to supply/install/finish antique heart pine, talk with Tim at Timberknee in Vermont. Unwilling to repeat my prior mistake with reclaimed heart pine, I recently ordered 440 sq ft of 5" country cherry for my kitchen. The flooring contractor just gave me an estimate of $1125 to install and $1031 to finish using 3 coats of polymerized tung oil from a vendor recommended by Tim at Timberknee. As for the cherry itself, it runs about $8-9 a sq ft. That, at least, is my recollection. More to think about, but I encourage you to think about it. You can get the look without the expense or, perhaps more importantly, the disappointment due to the difficulty of working with reclaimed wood. WmWalker Here is a link that might be useful: Timberknee Flooring...See MoreCost of wood floors - reality check?
Comments (30)Edible, as my wife and I are approaching some major house renovations, I've made a number of posts here asking questions from those more experienced than me. In some cases I followed the advice given me, and in others (after discussing the options with my wife and talking to our KD/GC) we decided to do something different. I've always been grateful to those who have taken the time to offer their opinion though, even those who disagreed with our plans. Although I know nothing about the flooring you're considering, I do speak from the experience of someone who has spent the last 25 years cleaning up one problem after another, caused by a previous owner who consistently took shortcuts, hired the cheapest contractors he could find, and then tried to cover up the ensuing problems this created. I can tell you that it's maddening paying a lot of money to fix things that weren't done right the first time. In addition, I recently had to deal with the issue of asbestos tile removal in my parent's basement. We've known for at least 10 years that the tiles likely contained asbestos, but there was no compelling reason to do anything about it. But then their basement started taking on water and the tiles had to come out before any waterproofing work could be done. It turns out that a professional remediation job wasn't that much more expensive than paying a local handyman to chip up the tiles and bring them to the dump. My bias is to do things right the first time even if it means delaying a project until I can afford to do it properly. You may quite reasonably conclude that, as there are no structural or safety issue, you'd rather get the floor you want now and deal with the asbestos later (if at all). There are obvious risks to this approach (you might not be happy with the floating floor, building codes may change, you may want to sell the house, etc.) though, and I think the people here are merely trying to point out those risks to you. In any event, good luck with your new floor....See Morereality check on sunrise restorations window cost
Comments (12)@Joseph Corlett, you're correct on that one. My contractor tried to install my window with the packing tape type of flashing, and no sill flashing, and a half assed fiberglass insulation job. Pretty sure they're losing money because they got to re-do all of it, and replace some of my siding they broke in the process. They look great now that they're installed (properly). If the OP is buying windows purely on price, then I would expect the the installer's work to be in kind and he might actually be better off doing it himself. @luv2bhome2, the two double casement windows I just had installed were roughly 53" square, with the Ultra U Plus 8 (triple pane), white interior, oak interior w/ Madera trim and it was $5,340 installed. And that was the lowest priced bid around here (in MN). The other two bids were slightly more money and that was just with a double pane windows. I think they wanted another $200 per window to add triple pane. Given my issues with this installer, I'll likely pay the additional money to try the other contractors to see if they can install a window properly without me giving them a list of crap they didn't do right, or at all....See Moreglennsfc
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