Anyone have any experience with Bois Chamois flooring? My client saw a display somewhere and liked it. I looked on their web page, and apparently it is imported French white oak, 7 inches wide, with some kind of oil-wax finish.
She said the salesman quoted her $25/sf installed. I know the salesman has not been to the site, so I wonder how he was able to quote a number. It’s for a concrete slab, and right now all that’s available are solid wood boards. The site says that they are all between 6 and 9 feet long, with no mention of shorts.
The site also mentions that engineer4ed wood is available, but there’s no information listed.
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I don't have experience with this particular flooring, but kind of get a kick out of someone paying $25 a sq ft for OLD looking floor. Why not just put wide pine down at more like $6-$8 and wait a 'couple years?
Don't get me wrong, I appreciate the patina that age and wear and tear can give wood, whether it's furniture or floor/trim surface, and have several nice pieces in my house with that look but it's genuinely OLD. But it does seem a little ridiculous to pay$ for a custom old look.
Finally got a sample of the engineered wood. Looks ok, I think. The wear layer is 1/4" plain sawn white oak, supposedly from France. It's new wood, not reclaimed. The plywood layer appears to be baltic birch ply ... it has 9 layers in 1/2". Both sides (top & bottom) are beat up and gouged, and the edges appear to have been beveled with a block plane running against the grain.
The client likes the rough look, but it's gonna have to be lightly screened to get the splinters off. I don't have a price yet, but the distributer told me that they sell the plywood product to the retailers for $2/sf more than the solid product. It sounds like the shortest piece that is normally shipped is 4 ft long, with most pieces between 6 and 9 ft.
"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