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To: Ish who wrote (7654)12/9/2001 11:38:19 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (5) of 25073
 
Hi Ish - do you (or anyone else here) have any experience with remodeling with hardwood floors? The flooring in our foyer is some kind of plastic that looks like slate. When the last owner was moving out it got cracked and chipped just a little bit.

Boy, if I'd known that little chip was going to keep spreading I'd have made her pay for a new floor! But I didn't. We've been keeping a throw rug over it but it keeps chipping away.

One solution would be to cut it square and put in another piece, maybe from the hall closet. My inclination is to rip it all up and put down hardwood.

They make hardwood now that comes pre-finished, and there is the choice between solid and engineered, and then there is the choice of nail down, staple down, glue down, or free-floating. Thinner may be better because it won't be such a difference from the other floors. Bruce makes a line that is 5/16 thick solid wood that can be glued down, that looks mighty tempting. (Planning to install it myself.)

The foyer goes right into the kitchen, and I am inclined to redo the kitchen floor, so wondering whether to put hardwood in the kitchen. The floor lady at Expo said you can do it if you get it with a good finish, you don't need engineered wood, but I need to verify that.

I did not like the way Pergo looked or felt.
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