Any potential to get wide engineered wood flooring under $5?
Trish Walter
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Trim Height for 5' wide Engineered Hardwood Flooring
Comments (10)ajsmama, your Brazilian Cherry floors are beautiful and so is your trim and steps. Thanks for sharing. The trim looks so nice since I am used to half my carpet covering my almost 3.5" trim. Laurie, That price sounds great and the height and width sounds perfect. I will have to look into this since I want my baseboard to be self-primed. My floors are now totally bare. My brother owed me and he finally decided to help me out by removing the carpet, pad, tackless, and trim (he labeled the trim to save but it is not in the best of shape). He left the trim and quarter rounds on the Porcelain tile foyer areas and told me the flooring guy will have to decide what to do with that since my brother sells, repairs and installs carpet for a living. He removed all the bad CVT tile in the utility room so someone can install tile that was not water damaged and cracking. He left the destroyed trim there that is so water damaged. The flooring guy can't come by until Thursday. I have to try to clean the floor again since it was SO dirty. I got all the nails off the floor and one layer of dust, plaster and dirt and the little Styrofoam balls that must have fell from the ceiling and were under the padding under the carpet from 20 years ago! I swept so now tomorrow I will vacuum. I hope a painter can start before the floor is installed. Squirrel, I agree with you that I invested so much money into a new floor that I also feel I would be happier with new taller trim or at least new trim. Thank you everyone! Anymore input and/or pictures would be appreciated. Thanks for being there for me. My little dogs are in my bedroom with me since that is where my computer is now. I can't work and I need to work. I ran out of toner and all my files are downstairs in the hot garage. I really wish someone would start my floor first before the painting since the dogs and me are all stressed out seeing the ugly cement floor everywhere downstairs. I wish I was also removing the torn linoleum kitchen floor but that is a project for next year, along with a new dishwasher since mine is almost 20 years old and leaks and does not match my stainless steel French Door refrigerator....See MoreGlueing down engineered 7.5" wood flooring...
Comments (5)Thanks for the replies. Update: We had the wrong info from the sales guy at the flooring store. Contractor says the layer of soundproofing he's buying from them CAN be nailed through without affecting the benefits of the layer. So we're now going to nail down, 7.5" 5/8' thick engineered white oak on top of soundproofing layer (see link below, and if anyone's used this please advise if you're happy with it) on top of old plywood. This is a condo built in 1979, overlooking the water in a Northeast climate. Here is a link that might be useful: Sound Solutions acoustic underlayment...See MoreANy experience with engineered wood floors from home depot?
Comments (15)The Home-Depot stuff normally has a 2mm wear layer (that's the very top layer of wood that is "oak" everything else below that is "something else"). The finish is a 7 layer Aluminum Oxide (AO) Urethane. That means the chances of refinishing this are slim to nil. Both the wear layer (3mm is the MINIMUM requirement to get a sand/refinish out of it) and the AO finish will make this wood near-impossible to "fix up" at a later date. At $1.96/sf, the install will be more expensive than the wood. And the subfloor preparation will be more expensive than the wood. Carpets hide the WORST POSSIBLE subfloors. Hardwood floors need real plywood for installation. Carpet RARELY has "real" plywood underneath it. So you will need to UPGRADE your subfloor. That costs money. Most types of OSB are not a good "fit" for sitting underneath hardwood so if it is there, you will need to upgrade. And fibre board (often seen underneath carpet) is a No-No for hardwood - upgrade/rip out will be needed. As you can see, to get these hardwoods in place, you will need to do some upgrades to the subfloor before putting it down. The other thing you may want to be aware of is the "average life expectancy" of a floor in a rental property = 7 years. Your subfloor + labor costs could run as high as $6 - $8/sf. That is 4 TIMES the amount the flooring costs. That's high. We normally like to see labor+prep prices that are only 1-2 times the price (same price as the floor or a snick more). Ask yourself whether or not the property will bring in the price to cover the higher than usual subfloor costs. And whether or not that seems like a good idea for a floor that may only last 7 years regardless of the subfloor prep....See MoreStruggling with Engineered Wood Floor Decision. Any help appreciated.
Comments (31)@Trish Walter Wow, they are gorgeous! I love the amount of character and color and the plank width. I ordered several samples of the Hurst Hardwoods Engineered French Oak, but the colors were way off from what was represented on the website pictures. I mean way off, like a completely different color...a grey rather than a brown. And what were supposed to be four very different colors all looked almost exactly the same. I didn't ask for Riverstone, but maybe I will talk with them about getting a few more samples and see if anything works. My husband is doing the install, too, to save money. I don't want to get the HH unfinished and have him also have to do the staining and finishing on top of installing. Thanks so much for sharing the info and the pictures. Enjoy your beautiful floors!...See Morecpartist
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