I have to leave for the airport in less than ten minutes, so this is going to be short as sweet.
There is a ying and a yang to ordering pre-finished tongue and groove hardwood floors. If you order too little, you’ll slow the job down by a few days at best waiting for more wood to arrive or at worst, the supplier won’t have any of the type of wood you are using left. Jamie and Brian told me when this happens, you are forced to switch the type of wood you are using halfway through the job.
We estimated at we would need 1,780 square feet to cover all of upstairs. That included an extra 10% for waste for bad cuts, bad boards, broken tongues etc. For 1,780 square feet we received 100 of these boxes (that weigh about 70lbs each).
By the time Jamie and Brian installed the floor in the two bedrooms and great room we had 39 boxes of flooring left. Wow, that is about $4,500 in extra flooring that can’t be returned!!!! So, we decided to put the hardwoods in the guest loft where Summer and I have been sleeping, on our soon to be enclosed screened in back porch and built a platform in my office for my desk and files. We still have enough wood left over to put tongue and groove above the closet in the master bedroom and above the bathroom. I’ll also be able to use it to trim out above the closets/great room.
Depending on how good I get with these tools I have here, I may even use it to build the shelves in the hallway closet and in the master closet. Heck, its good expensive wood that is going to last forever…and we have it…so we’re gonna use it.
In retrospect, we wouldn’t have spent the extra money if we had known we didn’t need to have this much hardwood flooring to finish the house, but it is allowing us to add a bunch of extras all out of beautiful teak.
Gotto go to the airport and then SURF!
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That is such beautiful flooring! Maybe a bench or two from extras.
If it makes you feel any better, with the dollar so weak right now $4500 is only like 1000 pounds in the UK.
Haha…Look at your ghetto office furniture!
I like the step-up in your office and I think extending the flooring onto the deck will make the house flow nicely. Bummer about have SO much extra, but live and learn!
yes yes yes, my office furniture is very ghetto. BUT…one step at a time. I can’t wait to get great, comfortable, good looking, practical office furniture…but I’d rather finish the master bath and keep working on that home made desk that looks horrible, but still holds my keyboard, computer and office phone.
Maybe I’ll build some nice Mahogany furniture and bookshelves to cover up the circuit breaker. Hmmmm…..
Do they have Craig’s list in Puerto Rico???
Alicia & Brad:
They do have Craig’s list but no one really uses is. There are a few legitimate things on there but it is mostly spam.
Craigslist isn’t used much here… people prefer the local sites like endi.com and clasificadosonline.com
I would have suggested some kick-ass doggie kennels.
CanineCribs anyone?
Robert - clasificadosonline.com is a great resource. That’s were Stefan has been searching for trucks for the past 6 - 8 month.
Bulbboy - We built Kuta a dog house of the remaining hard wood, but he didn’t like the lack of traction. So we tore it down…;)