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I've used their hickory, nice stuff. Like anything, order a little bit more, maybe 10%...worked well with Bostich floor nailer and Senco finish gun...
This is in archives. Concensus was to go there and pick pieces, not have it delivered sight unseen. Haven't seen Rush Limbaugh's at his EIB studio, but I'd guess it wasn't scraps and seconds.
Just bought a bundle a Bellawood Red Oak Select. I had a small landing to do, and it was in an occupied home negating site finished. Opened the box to find toothpicks and a couple of sticks. I returned that box and was promptly given another with less toothpicks. The finish is almost as good as a " sand sealed/3 coat finish " applied with a garden sprayer. Milling (TG alignment) is inconsistent enough to create " rumble strips". If you read their warranty, their "50 year" is voided by any damage, wear and tear, etc. Keep the stuff in the box undisturbed, and you should be covered. They do make quick exchanges, but time adds cost. If absolutely neccesary, they are OK, but a "site finished" floor, beats Bellawood by a long shot.
Bob Vila lied?!"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know" Ralph Waldo Emerson
The store near me in Hackensack had a foot of standing water in the ware house after a tropical storm but they were still selling anything that was above the waterline the same day.
sorry to thread jack.... MVAgusta what model bike do you have? big bike nut myself
Not an MV. I have a '77 R100RS with Krauser 4-valve heads and a lot of other dumb things done to it. Makes a lot of noise for a beemer.
Verry cool......honda 919 here (Naked) dont want to thread jack
We recently did a kitchen floor, about 100 sq. ft., with Bellawood 3/4" wide plank Brazilian Cherry. The material was beautiful and the job came to $10.00/ sq. ft. installed. Got it a Lumber Liquidators. The problem may be with your distributor.
We recently did a new home. The HO insisted on getting Brazillian Cherry from Bellawood against my recommendation.
We needed 700 +/- sq.ft. I don't remember the exact number now, I'm trying to forget the whole job, but anyway.
He wanted to sort through each box and reject any pieces he didn't like. So we went at it one saturday and he rejected HALF of the boxes. Some with good reason, some he was being a little rediculous. Knicks in the wood, missing finish, milky finish, rough finish, etc...
Unbelievably Bellawood replaced the boxes. So he sorted through the new replacements when they came in and rejected half of those. Bellawood replaces them again and after inspection we are good to install.
Start the install and the milling is terrible!! Different widths, thicknesses, and tongues and grooves didn't line up on alot.
I will not allow a customer to insist on using Bellawood again. If they want it that bad they can handle buying, inspecting, and installing it on there own.
I used bellawood prefinished beech in my own house (but not because Bob Villa put it in his own house). Maybe I had a good lot from the mill; the knives were just changed or something. Went down easy, milling was pretty consistant. The joikoff from lumbering liquidators tried to add $2 s.f. to a 700 s.f. order though. Based on the 1/2 hour I spent there listening to the salesmen lie through their teeth, I would not deal with them again. I steer my customers to another place. If someone insisted on using their wood, I would put a clause in the contract explaining the PITA factor...
I must admit to having installed both beech and some kind of rosewood from Bellawood. The differences were remarkable. The beech was made in canada and was very consistent. The other was made in South America and overall was a poor product, dimensionally speaking.
"When asked if you can do something, tell'em "Why certainly I can", then get busy and find a way to do it." T. Roosevelt
"Got it a Lumber Liquidators. The problem may be with your distributor."Bellawood is a house brand of Lumber Liquidators.No other distributor.
I just returned the prefinished stair nose today. Apparently, the mill that produces the nosing is not the one that mills the flooring. Groove raises flooring above nosing. The store told me a replacement would probably do the same thing. He suggested I look around and see if another flooring manufacturer matches ( Sure, that is what I want to do all day ), and said I had 30 days to return the misaligned nosing. I promptly handed him the nosing, and the light hit the stock just right, and I noticed the finish was lifted from the entire bullnose, just floating. I pointed it out, and he goes on to tell me the nosing doesn't carry the "50 year" warranty!!!!!!!. I actually feel bad for the next person that buys the piece. On another note, I have been in the store for a purchase, a return, an exchange, and a pickup: Each time I felt as though I walked into a busy hair salon ( I imagine this statement will yield some responses of ).........