Questionable floor refinish job - what do you think?
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Comments (5)We installed 720 sf of the Morning Star Click bamboo flooring sold by Lumber Liquidators in June of 2013. The material finish scratches easy, however, the scratches are the least of our problems. The cupping started with the shorter pieces in the hallways. By December 2013, the entire installation was cupping and gaps appeared in random areas. When LLI was contacted about the defects, we were informed that the condition was not covered under their warranty. In reading the various reviews on independent sites for this product, it seems that there is a chronic problem with scratching, cupping and separations. Lumber Liquidators will use any excuse to avoid any liability for providing their customers with a very poor product. Our first mistake in selecting our new floor was believing that the reviews on the LLI site were unbiased reviews. The product reviews on the LLI website are "selected" reviews. Gee....I wonder who selects them. Our second mistake was actually purchasing this product. We will have to replace our eight month old floor and it sure as heck will not be with a product supplied by Lumber Liquidators. We learned a $5,000.00 lesson the hard way⦠donâÂÂt make the same mistake. The LLI warranty should be condensed to read: âÂÂWarranty is void if material is removed from factory packagingâÂÂ. STAY AWAY FROM LUMBER LIQUIDATORS!!!!!!!!!!...See MoreFlooring discovery, what do you think?
Comments (23)PIne seals and stains nicely ... you could match the other floor fairly easily with almost any stain brand. The trick is to IGNORE the names and look at the colors ... stain some scraps of pine various colors that looked like a close match in the brochure and drop them on the floor you are trying to blend with. Back off and look at the boards - the one you can't easily see is the color you want....See MoreWhat do you think of contractors bringing kids to the job?
Comments (38)No. No one should be onsite ( even adults ) unless they’re working on the project. Example: while having work done on my house years ago I happened to come home from work at noon to get something. While walking down the hallway to my bedroom I was surprised by a woman exiting our bedroom, who introduced herself as the contractor’s fiancé. She stated that our contractor wanted her to see our house (?). While getting ready to go out to a function less than a week later I went to retrieve a ring to wear from a jewelry box ( a large solitaire diamond that I rarely wore other than for dressy occasions ). It was gone. I know, it should have been placed in a safe or elsewhere but I was young & naive. I always suspected that she took ( no one else had access to the house other than her & the contractor ) it but of course couldn’t prove it. Lesson learned....See MoreDo you have to refinish all flooring if refinishing one room?
Comments (5)It is easiest if the boards run parallel to the opening between the spaces as it looks better to finish complete boards rather than have a line cutting across the width of a board. In my previous home, the owners at the time chose to refinish the bedrooms and install a flat oak board like a saddle underneath the doors for a break point. If it is parallel to the boards, you can just tape off the existing floor and have the finishing done up to the tape. This requires extra care to keep the equipment from straying on to the finished floor, but it is not impossible. In that house, the dining room and hall was carpeted when the adjoining floor was refinished. When we removed the carpet, the original finish color did not match the refinished wood but it was not very noticeable. My husband was concerned that the newly laid kitchen flooring in the current house would not match up to the original floors and the different wood cuts would absorb stain differently. So, I asked him how much the different finishes bothered him in the previous house. He had completely forgotten the two finishes did not match and those spaces were different type, sheen and color of finish. When we were staring directly at the newly finished floor, it was obvious but only stuck out for a short time. In the photo you can see the original boards at the top and the rift cut at the bottom. The darker colored board came from stain seeping under our tape line. We used the same stain but finished the floors at different times in the project....See MoreTee Bee
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