Hardwood Floors

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Has anybody put in hardwood flooring by themself? Wondering if I should do it my self (110 sqft rectangular room) or pay someone to do it. If I do it myself I figure I save anywhere from 3-4 hundered bucks, but also don't want a huge hassle, never done it before. I have read up on it, and it seems easy enough (engineered hardwood) but not sold on it. What else would I have to buy etc.. ??

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Not sure if I would have the time to do it as well, as I just got a new job this morning, takes a lot of stress off my life, working for the other side (for those that met me), don't have to search out clients...:00hour
 
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Phenom said:
Has anybody put in hardwood flooring by themself? Wondering if I should do it my self (110 sqft rectangular room) or pay someone to do it. If I do it myself I figure I save anywhere from 3-4 hundered bucks, but also don't want a huge hassle, never done it before. I have read up on it, and it seems easy enough (engineered hardwood) but not sold on it. What else would I have to buy etc.. ??

:shrug:

Not sure if I would have the time to do it as well, as I just got a new job this morning, takes a lot of stress off my life, working for the other side (for those that met me), don't have to search out clients...:00hour
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Don't freakin do it. I put in Belleau Wood Australian Cypress last year and you can kiss every inch of my ass if I was ever asked to do it again. You will have to buy straps and spacers to ensure that the first planks are not flush with the wall as they will crack. You first need to level the floor with leveling compound then once all that is dry you need to scrub the floors real well and let them dry. You will also need to let your flooring sit in your living room with all the boxes cut open for a few days in order to let them dry out and some will warp. After all that crap you can start laying the floors. Make sure you put enough glue down also and dont go more than two rows with out strapping and pounding with a dead blow............ohhh yeaahhh dude.........good luck with alllllllllll that. I would be paying someone so fast it would make your head spin.
 
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fatdaddycool said:
Don't freakin do it. I put in Belleau Wood Australian Cypress last year and you can kiss every inch of my ass if I was ever asked to do it again. You will have to buy straps and spacers to ensure that the first planks are not flush with the wall as they will crack. You first need to level the floor with leveling compound then once all that is dry you need to scrub the floors real well and let them dry. You will also need to let your flooring sit in your living room with all the boxes cut open for a few days in order to let them dry out and some will warp. After all that crap you can start laying the floors. Make sure you put enough glue down also and dont go more than two rows with out strapping and pounding with a dead blow............ohhh yeaahhh dude.........good luck with alllllllllll that. I would be paying someone so fast it would make your head spin.
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YOU SHOULD HAVE HIRED SPONGE :shrug:
 
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The Sponge said:
Ecck. Sponge is not a big fan of the c ock or the ballsack.
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I like mine and in about another quarter inch I will be able to reach it. Alas, by my scant calculations and my archaic growth study I conducted over the last few months, a quarter inch of pure bag stretch is nothing. Can probably train it to do that in a matter of weeks but to get the grapes to follow is a whole nother story. Don't even want to think about that.......would be like one of those geisha ladies that bend their feet into lotuses or what ever the hell it is with wood planks.......ugh.

Hope this helps,

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You are the guy who said its a piece of cake so go put it in for him.
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I can do that should be back that way soon. I can fix that broken lock on your door too :00hour so your friends don't take anything else that don't belong to them
when your not home. :shrug:

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i If its a big room i wouldn't do it either
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110 sq ft, you sound like a union carpenter :shrug:
 
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vinnie said:
I can do that should be back that way soon. I can fix that broken lock on your door too :00hour so your friends don't take anything else that don't belong to them
when your not home. :shrug:



110 sq ft, you sound like a union carpenter :shrug:
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what no picture of the lotus foot?
 
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vinnie said:
I can do that should be back that way soon. I can fix that broken lock on your door too :00hour so your friends don't take anything else that don't belong to them
when your not home. :shrug:



110 sq ft, you sound like a union carpenter :shrug:
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The problem is that this guy has a job. You prolly spent eight weeks on it in between posting dirty pictures :142smilie
 
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Phe, i think Penguinfan started a thread about this. Don't listen to vinnie. The only thing he knows about hardwood is the remnants of a night in the mojo room.
 
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vinnie said:
IT'S SO SIMPLE A CAVE MAN CAN DO IT !
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Most of the guys on these post sites are white collar college grads who never had a blister in there life. Now you want this fellow to all the sudden put a hard wood floor in? He might chop his hand off at the chop saw on the first piece he cuts.
 
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