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  1. HUTCH91TR

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    #26 HUTCH91TR, Nov 13, 2004
    Congrats Gus!!!!
     
  2. Enzo

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    #27 Enzo, Nov 13, 2004
    Congrats Gus. You guys must be excited as hell.
     
  3. Jay GT4

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    #28 Jay GT4, Nov 13, 2004
    Walnut is beautiful! The price of the exotics has really come down in the last few years. Jatoba used to be around $15-20sq/ft Now it can be had for around $7.00 with cheaper companies around $6.

    Here is a pine floor I did. First pic is with about 5 layers of paint. 2nd pic is sanded down to bare wood. House is about 80 years old.
     
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    #29 DrStranglove, Nov 13, 2004
    Looking good!!!
     
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    #30 AJS328, Nov 15, 2004
    I was in the house on Saturday night to sign the contract. The floors look similar to that except with a slightly darker finish. I can't wait to take some pics! We're pretty excited! Thanks for all the good wishes. :)
     
  6. Sean F.

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    #31 Sean F., Nov 15, 2004
    Front Room in my old house. My wife and I FINALLY got this room done after we'd lived there for 9-years last summer (2003) then we ended up moving out 9-months later!

    It used to be carpet and old ugly wood paneling (the paneling was actually nice but very DARK 70's look. We didn't trash it but gave it a neighbors brother who made it into a bar! I knew it would just sit in my garage so I figured better to go to good use than just sit in my house rotting.
     
  7. Jay GT4

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    #32 Jay GT4, Nov 16, 2004
    Looks good Sean. Was that 3/8" oak? I've noticed alot of houses in the US have the old style 3/8" floor and usually the lower grade "Rustic" or "Common" with a natural finish. Personally I like the look of the lower grade woods, shows the character of the wood. A "Select & Better" wood floor is too consistant, no variations, I think the variations make the beauty of the floor.
     
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    #33 jonesn, Nov 16, 2004
    Cool thread. My parents just "retired" to their ranch in west Texas (after luxury custom home building for 38 years) and are now going to start a mesquite flooring and furniture company. If you've never seen a mesquite wood product then take a moment to, it is amazing in texture and beauty. It's also one of the (if not the) hardest wood for flooring and has the least shrinkage over the years. The difficultly with mesquite is that it takes more patience to work with and your hard luck to find a piece of it that is long and wide enough to work with (very crooked tree).

    Everything they are going to build will be home fixtures: flooring, mantles, doors, cabinets, base board, etc etc.
     
  9. gentry

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    #34 gentry, Nov 16, 2004
    Im thinking about putting bamboo in my office. Its gorgeous. Id like to see some laid though.
     
  10. Doody

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    #35 Doody, Nov 16, 2004
    my local Fidelity office (Framingham MA) is largely bamboo floors. apparently it wears like the dickens though care and maintenance is an issue? i didn't get all the details. sure looked neat!

    doody.
     
  11. Jay GT4

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    #36 Jay GT4, Nov 16, 2004
    I put Bamboo in my best friends place. They compress the reeds with extreem pressure and add chemicals to make it "Stick". From what I can see it is durable but you run into splitting when trying to cut it for installation. I'll try to take a pic in a few days of it. I've only seen it in 1/2" thickness.

    Never used mesquite. Interesting.
     
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    #37 Sean F., Nov 17, 2004
    Nope, 3/4" Red Oak, sanded and 3-coats of finish.

    I've seen the thinner stuff and IMO it's terrible. Moves and weaves to much b/c it doesn't have enough stiffness. My parents had some put in there kitchen and I thought it was terrible. SIL has the same 3/8" laminate wood floor and I think it's terrible too.

    Our current kitchen has tile and my wife and I hate it. We plan on ripping it out and replacing with wood soon. The tile drives me nuts b/c it shows EVERY spec of dirt and with 4-boys, it doesn't stay clean long. That and when you sweep the dirt gets caught in the grout. The Red Wood floor at least hid some of the dirt and was much easier to sweet/clean.
     
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    #40 Jay GT4, Nov 22, 2004
    Red pine! I like it. Did they use a polyurethane or a penetrating oil?
     
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    #41 AJS328, Nov 22, 2004
    Not sure but I could find out. If I had to guess, I'd say the penetrating oil. What am I basing that on? Well, I don't know much about wood floors but I figured that the oil finish would give it less of a slippery appearance. Am I correct with this?
     
  17. gentry

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    #42 gentry, Nov 22, 2004
    lol, thats great. Im getting slip covers made for the sofa and the blue leather chair is going to be repaired (grandfather left it to me). And the new TV will take up much less room.

    The paint is going to be red on top white on the bottom.
     
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    #43 Jay GT4, Nov 22, 2004
    It's difficult to know for sure unless you know what you are looking for. Polyurethane tends to feel "Thicker" like a layer of plastic or glass over the wood and the penetrating oil lets you feel more of the grain of the wood, but if you build up the P.O. then it feels very similar.
     
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    #44 AJS328, Nov 23, 2004
    Then it probably is the oil . The wood doesn't have that "extra layer" feel to it. It's a very light finish that allows the texture of the wood to be felt.
     
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    #45 Jay GT4, Nov 23, 2004
    It still might be polyurethane. Pine is very soft and sucks up anything put on it like a sponge, that's why you have that "textured" feel.
     
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    #46 AJS328, Nov 23, 2004
    I just caught my spelling of "wood" in the last post. My brain is fried today!!! LOL.
     
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    #47 Jay GT4, Nov 23, 2004
    I didn't want to say anying...:)
     
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    #49 gentry, Nov 23, 2004
    Beautiful. Thanks much.
     
  25. zjpj

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    #50 zjpj, Nov 25, 2004
    There are acres of wood floors in my place in NJ

    These should give you a small flavor
     
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