Just curious to see how many sq. ft. of 3.25″ hardwood flooring you can install in 1 day by your lonesome. Room is rectangular. Go!!!!
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Depends if your paying me by the Sq.ft. or by the Hr.!
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Little thin on the information for any realistic bull #### answer.
or not. Couple hundred to 350.
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You lil hustler you!Merry Christmas to you and Joyce.
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Paul, this is one perfect place for a short, young helper with half a sense of measure and good foresight. You can make money doing this. Us remodelers relish the thought of a nice flooring job............at least until the lower back pain sets in.
Prosperous New Year to you.
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Well, I'm slow and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Based on the last time I did this, I would say 100 to 150 sq feet.
Rich Beckman
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How good do you want it to look when I am done?
yeah really... do you want that nailed down?!
naw, sheathing staples thru the face will be fine ;-)
One thing that really surprised me was how long it took to lay a cherry floor recently in a small kitchen. The flooring was excellent quality, but we not only had to match lengths but grain/colors.
The cherry was really "figured" and varied in grain colors that in order to keep certain boards from becoming the main attraction we held back about 20%.
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Well I used wider black walnut flooring. Screwed down each piece by hand countersunk and plugged each hole. a screw about every 4 square inches. Aligned the grain and color of most of the plugs, sanded and shellaced it it. I Averaged 26.6 bd.ft per day.. that was an average of 3 hours per day so in a 8 hour day assuming I could work that hard for 8 hours straight that's about 71 bd.ft. a day.
quick tips
start at same end everytime use a jig saw to cut last piece, don"t measure last piece
turn it backwards and hold tight to wall and mark at the last piece laid dont forget to
allow room for expansion. this method will save many trips to the saw
time is money!!
Never did one by myself, but what made it faster for us was to "rack" the layout while the flooring was climatizing (is that a word?). That way I didn't spend time looking for the best fit/looking next piece when I was in "nailor-nator" mode, it was already laying there. Once the first row was squared and laid, only had to take time to trim the length on the last piece of each row and rip the width on the last row.
Ours was in a 2 bedroom/2 bath addition so we had the advantage of not having to walk around it for 2 weeks.
between 100 and 250
yes, alone
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OK, kept track today just to be able to answer this question. Ours is 2-1/4" wide T&G, 3/4" thick, random lengths, Prefinished Maple (Bruce "Plano"). The miter saw and jig saw were about 15-20 steps away from the working area.
Before we started, the tarpaper was down, layout was done, and joists were marked - we did that the day before. Additionally, the day before, we'd already layed 120sqft so when we started today it was "ready to go"
Here is how we did:
40 sqft/hour working alone in a "wide area" (26' wall to wall)
60 sqft/hour working with the wife laying out the planks ahead of me
about 40 sqft/hour working with the wife, but hitting areas with "obstacles" that needed more cutting around.
We kept the pace up as best as we could and held to that for most of the day. Worked at it for 11 hours with only short breaks (yes, we are tired, but we have to return the stapler tomorrow)
Sad to say we'll have to rent it again to finish the office (under 175 sqft)
Side notes: the lines on the tarpaper helped us monitor "straight and parallel", although I wish we would have overlapped it a bit more. I know I am the only one who can see it, but, at just the right angle; in just the right light; in just the right area I can see where the 2" overlap telegraphs through.
Also, speaking of parallel, if things started to drift we were able to correct it by driving hard on the areas that were getting ahead and soft on the area getting beind. Worked well. We used the Bostich flooring stapler.
I'll post pics be the end of the week either here or on my blog.
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jhausch,Is this floor over a crawlspace? I am curious if the tarpaper is considered helpful in a second story install over a conditioned first floor, laid over 3/4" T&G plywood. I am open to being convinced in either direction by a cogent argument. Thanks.Bill
It is over a full basement.
I think the main purpose of tarpaper or red rosin paper it is to fair over any slight imperfections. As I mentioned, the tarpaper gave us some nice parallel lines to aid in layout. I also think that because it is slightly thicker than the rosin paper it does a better job of fairing out the seams in my T&G OSB.
I am not sure how much of a moisture barrier either really is . . .
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Thanks for the rapid answer. I used to think the tarpaper helped the floor to be squeakless, but now I am not so sure.Bill
I think the primary purpose of the tar paper (or red rosin paper) is to help reduce squeeks. I suppose it has some vapor barrier potential, but it is between the subfloor and the finish flooring, so how does that help?BTW, red rosin paper is a bit easier and cheaper to put down, but does eventually turn to dust. You pick.
"I know I am the only one who can see it, but, at just the right angle; in just the right light; in just the right area I can see where the 2" overlap telegraphs through."I don't know how a wider overlap would help that. There is still going to be a line where you go from one layer of felt to two layers. You would have to cut some paper narrower and lay it under so there is always two layers, never one or three, just two.
I'm guessing you used #30 felt paper.The #15 paper doesn't do that (in my minimal experience).
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Nope, 15#
I think a longer overlap would perhaps make the discrepancy less noticeable. As I look at the reflection of the sliding glass door, I can see the image of the center of the door (where the stationary section and moving section overlap). The image is "straight" except on two boards about 3' from the door and two more 6' from the door.
Heck I don't know, I've never done this before, just making a guess. . . .
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It seems to me that zero overlap will fully solve the bump-in-the-flooring problem. So will 50% overlap, giving double coverage. Anything between those extremes will give bumps of varying sizes. I vote for no overlap.Bill
We'll try one of those in the office and let you know.
I don't recall if there is a layout line at exactly halfway on the tarpaper. If so, we'll try 50%; if not, then we'll go with 0.
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