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To: Ilaine who wrote (7655)	12/9/2001 12:02:08 PM
From: William H Huebl	Respond to of 25073

We replaced our carpeting with hardwood flooring... it went down over the plywood just great! It looks wonderful. I can take a pix for you if you like and email you... local contractor (my daughter's ex) did it and it was very resonable. We are going to do the rest of the downstairs...

To: Ilaine who wrote (7655)	12/9/2001 12:03:43 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25073

I've never put down any hardwood flooring but I've watched it on TV. I would stay away from the glued down in case you want to change it later. The pre finished come with some really good finishes now. I've got quite an expanse of Bruce hardwood that my wife was talking about replacing for some unknown reason. I asked an installer and he said it's $15 a sq ft and told me to leave it. For the cost of the material you might want to have it professionaly installed to make sure you have no future problems.

To: Ilaine who wrote (7655)	12/9/2001 12:40:56 PM
From: Shoot1st	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25073

CBB, another idea.... naturalcork.com Shootie

To: Ilaine who wrote (7655)	12/11/2001 10:04:57 AM
From: Nemer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 25073

Hardwood floors ... I see from one of your earlier posts that you've decided to use slate .... interesting material, and a flooring with which I've had NO experience ... *(one of few ....gggg) I'd like to have a report from you on the installation, please. In the past, I've laid multi thousand sq ft of hardwood for personal use, plus a few jobs for friends, and even a couple dozen for hire ..... the prices that I've encountered in NE Tx for hardwood .... planks, laminated planks, parquet, inlaid parquet, narrow strips, etc are currently in the buck to ten buck per sq ft range .... with the predominant flooring used by most area builders being the laminated ply veneer type running in the general area of three bucks per sq ft..... this stuff will last fine for say, ten years or so with moderate traffic, and will take ONE refinish job with a circular sander, maybeeeeeeee two, depending upon any 'dent damage' that has happened. Here in NE Tx, there are practically NO houses built other than slab foundations .... this precludes any nailing, so gluedown is the major method of installation. anyone, as far as I can observe, who is "handy with power tools" can do a fine job of laying the flooring as long as they a) don't get in a hurry b) clean up as they go c) leave a quarter inch gap around the perimeter for expansion d) read the directions on the box the flooring came in I've also laid multi thousand sq ft of other types of flooring --- ceramic, marble, glazed, non-glazed, cork, and even linoleum btw, most folks haven't even seen real linoleum but just call a hard surface vinyl type stuff by that name..... the last I laid was for a buddy of mine who had to order it from New Zealand, but when it arrived it had actually been made in England .... it is made from linseed oil with gum, cork dust or wood flour impregnated with pigments and put onto a material like burlap for backing ...... Sorry for the rambling, but I'm in the waiting room at the service station having my auto serviced and just got on line with the machine in their office ....... gggggg I would really like to learn something about the slate, if you don't mind .... Nemer ps .. about a year ago, it seems as if I recall telling you about using vinegar in water for poached eggs .. did you ever try it ?????