Are you experienced?

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Are you experienced?
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Sun, 11-02-2003 - 11:00am

With hardwood floors anyway ;-)


In our kitchen, entry and hallway we have hardwood floors.

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Phyllis

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Sun, 11-02-2003 - 11:22am
I've had hardwood floors, but since "the flood" have had them removed (What a nightmare!). Newer types of wood floors that have the finished layer laminated to other layers really aren't meant to be sanded. Your best bet would be to go to a store that sells that kind of product (maybe even Home Depot or Lowe's) and ask what they'd recommend to refinish them.

Rhonda


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Sun, 11-02-2003 - 4:40pm
I guess you could say we're experienced. We had the beautiful hardwood floors of an older colonial in Queens. They were beautiful hardwood and parquet that we got down on our hands and knees and sanded and urethaned every couple of years.. Then we moved to this house which is a 1950 variety Cape and removed all the carpeting. We refinished the hallway but the floor wasn't in great shape and never really looked all that great. The living and dining room had pieces that were put in here and there to replace wood that had been damaged and just couldn't be salvaged. We ended up putting down the wood laminate flooring in the hallway, living room and dining room and it really is nice. Looks like the real thing and is super easy to keep clean and you never have to worry about sanding it or urethaning it and it has a pretty good guarantee on it. We cut the cost of it in half by doing it ourselves. It's labor intensive on the knees to install. We also put down a red oak floor in the small hallway upstairs and then polyurethaned that. That will have to be resanded and polyurethaned every couple of years. That's why we put the laminate flooring downstairs to cut down on the work of the upkeep in the bigger area. Sounds like a good idea to experiment in an inconspicious spot and see what happens and then to decide. Good luck!

Susan

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Sun, 11-02-2003 - 5:42pm

We had Pergo in Rob's room and still have it in our room until we can pull it out and replace it. Water will damage that too if it gets under it. It will warp and mold will grow. Our big problem is that even with the extra expense of the additional underlayment to supposedly cut down on noise, when it is installed on a concrete slab, it still sounds as though you're walking on laminate, which is pretty noisy.


We got a commercial grade of vinyl planks that look very much like wood, are practically impervious to damage by sand.

       ~~Rhonda~~


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Mon, 11-03-2003 - 7:20pm

We have hardwood floors...the regular