DYI’er looking to do a 500 sq ft hardwood floor on an addition. Anyone have any recommendations? Those brazilian cherry floors look pretty cool, but it’s very dry in colorado, will gaps open up, or is it stable? do they hold up well with dogs? any help would be appreciated, i have dug enough holes, and holes are hard to move. cheers.
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Check this out
hardwoodinstaller.com
888-420-9663
They have good products and good prices. Lumber Liquidators has a lot more publicity, and a lot less quality.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
Is that true about LL? I am looking at doing my house about 900 sqft looked at Lumber Liquidators and had them send me some samples. The sample of Brazilian cherry looked very nice though it was only a 5" board.
I just finished laying a bunch of brazilian cherry. About 400 sf of 5" Lumber Liq and about 500 sf of 5" HardwoodInstaller ... in the same house, different floors. The HO wenty to a LL showroom, liked what he saw, and bought the first batch. Four months later we were ready to do the room upstairs, but LL was out of stock and predicting 6-8 weeks for more, and that's when I contacted HI. Their price was within 10 cents/sf and they had it in stock. The HI material was more consistent in thickness, width, and overall quality. One examnple: inside the box, every layer of wood had a slip sheet of thin foam separating it from the next layer. Also, the LL boxes had quite a few 12 and 18" pieces, lots of 24, 30, and 36" pieces, and a few 48,60 and 72" pieces. The HI boxes had very few shorts (one per box), almost all 36, 48 and 60", with usually one eaqch 72 and 84" piece.
Depending on availability, I will stick with HI.
I'm sorry, I thought you wanted it done the right way.
You might want to check out mountainlumber.com. Very cool stuff. 100% antique reclaimed flooring sawn from 100 year old timbers and beams.
Mark
I bought 1400 sq ft of the Jatobia Brazilian cherry. Yea it is hard. Look it up. It is harder than white oak. It looks gorgeous. It shows dust, cause it is dark but otherwise it is great. It really doesn't move much, at least this batch.
As for the hounds. The finish is the thing that will get screwed up by their nails, not the wood.
Now I'm talking about the full thickness hardwood floor. I won't stand up for the snap together stuff. That is great if you are making a stage production but that snap together stuff won't hold up long term.
281-461-7042 gets you to an importer called Howard. He brokers the stuff thru trucking terminals all over the US. I bought mine 2 yrs ago for 1.90 Sqft. Now he's at 2.10 for a sqft. That is what my Bro told me when he went to price it out this year. The guy brokers it all over the US.
Neat sales program. He parks it in the trucking terminal in 5 to 8 states. Pays demurage to the truckers and for that the trucking firm lets you look at the bundle in their office and then will transfer goods to you when you've given them a certified check. Howard's sales force is the Building products section of the classifieds with an 800 number.
Cheap effective and the wood is clear as a bell.