Bamboo Floor Project Gallery
Jun. 17th, 2004 05:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscottHere'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.
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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Date: 2004-06-18 11:08 am (UTC)The installer lowered the sq. ft. rate to $3 when we cut out the dishonest flooring store (it had been $3.50) but then added back $600 for reusing the old baseboard and $300 for carpet and waste disposal, which seemed reasonable. The whole thing ended up costing c. $9/sq. ft. It's likely new customers can get about $1/sq ft shaved off the price of materials because it turns out the installer is an old friend of the guy running the bamboo importers, and he will now be able to buy direct for people who go through him for installation.