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Offline Swampman

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Man Cave Refurb
« on: August 14, 2012, 11:13:28 AM »
I put down a hardwood floor in my man cave.  It wasn't that hard.  One day to lay the floor and one day to put down the molding and clean up the mess.



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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2012, 12:06:30 PM »
 That floor looks good to me datil
 
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2012, 03:43:22 PM »
Looks great. You did a nice job. Dale
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #3 on: August 14, 2012, 03:45:36 PM »
Nice!
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #4 on: August 14, 2012, 03:46:22 PM »
Looks good!  I'm on the bare concrete slab right now, but flooring will be last after all of the other work is done.  I thought about wood flooring, but I'll probably go back with carpet.  The concrete has taught me what live acoustics do to my ability to hear and understand speech.
 
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #5 on: August 14, 2012, 08:11:53 PM »
Looks great! I've been wanting to do that to mine for quite awhile. Maybe I should get off my arse and get started!
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #6 on: August 14, 2012, 08:40:46 PM »
Looks great,......very cosy.


We have similar, throughout.


Funnily enough, I was just looking at Mesquite hardwood flooring et al, today.

http://www.mesquitewoodproducts.com/mesquite-flooring.html


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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #7 on: August 14, 2012, 11:59:53 PM »
I use a commercial grade of outdoor carpet over concrete. Glued down, it dont move. The wood floors look good.

I am old enough to remember when all quality homes had hardwood floors. Then wall to wall carpet got popular and a lot of wood floors got covered up.
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #8 on: August 15, 2012, 12:14:51 AM »
  Good job Swampy... Looks comfy.
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #9 on: August 15, 2012, 12:46:01 AM »
Thanks, we only have 2 rooms with carpet now.  One is the spare bedroom which gets very little use, and the other is the master bedroom.  Carpet does seem to make a room less noisy so I may keep it in there.
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #10 on: August 15, 2012, 05:23:59 AM »
Nice looking floor...Is it pergo-type laminate or real stuff?  thx
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #11 on: August 15, 2012, 07:06:52 AM »
Swampy!
Nice job, and as usual great photo`s!
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #12 on: August 15, 2012, 07:20:02 AM »
The real stuff....no laminates for me.
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #13 on: August 15, 2012, 07:22:04 AM »
Nice job Swampy,    I was wondering also if the planks are the laminate type or hardwood.....full thickness or engineered?    I have done several houses myself in the past but haven't now for about 7 years.   One thing I really like about the wood floors is its real easy to find small things when the fall on it.    Good looking Cave.   :)
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Re: Man Cave Refurb
« Reply #14 on: August 15, 2012, 07:25:49 AM »
This is engineered.  Our humidity is so bad here, I was afraid full thickness would be too unstable.
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