Bamboo Floor Project Gallery

[drscott]

Here's the Bamboo Floor Project Gallery I promised. Punted the gym today -- I was just too tired.

There are lots of little consequences to changing over to wood floors -- we've had to put felt dots or rubber cups under most of the furniture (so you can slide it without marring the wood) and will be shopping for a nice area rug for under the coffee table, plus a few runners for special situations (like next to the beds and high wear areas.) More shopping fun awaits us. We also had to rip out the built-in shelves in Mike's office, since they interfered with the installation and weren't nice enough to keep permanently, so there's another shopping trip (and Ikea furniture-building session.)

There was so much sawdust on the bottom of the pool I only finished cleaning it today, and I'll put in a new filter since the old one is beyond its design life. These filters are basically big paper filters, rather like a 3' tall car air filter, and after a few years no amount of cleaning will fix them.

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[dr-scott.livejournal.com]

We also considered what it probably a more practical strategy - bamboo for the living/dining area and berber carpet plus dense pad for the bedrooms. It's hard to find a carpet installer that knows how to select pad for R-Value; almost none of them care if your heating bill is twice as high. The carpet and pad installed here 14 years ago had an R-value of about 4, meaning over those years about $5,000 of gas heat was went into the soil below the concrete pad and not into the house.

If you would consider doing it yourself, I found a good source for well-designed carpet squares -- dense Berber carpet with a rigid plastic integral pad. They have peeloff glue pads on the back, and only a few have to be glued down; plus you can create cool designs with them. While a bit expensive compared to roll carpet, it lets you do one room at a time yourself and allows you to replace a square at a time as booboos happen.

See http://www.interfacefloor.com.

..and I thought you were going to say, "The guy doing it is great--HE looks wonderful." :-)