Comments on: Floored http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/floored The surface and beneath the surface Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:23:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: bill http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/floored/comment-page-1#comment-30 bill Mon, 13 Nov 2006 01:25:51 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/uncategorized/floored#comment-30 I'm about to start a project like this. Did you level the floors while there were still things in the room? Seems like you would have to remove everything. <p class="reply">The gas range was still in the room and we moved it from one spot to the other. Everything else had been removed. We've kept all our kitchen stuff on wheeled carts to make this easier. -- mss </p> <p> How hard was it to nail it down? I have never installed a floor. </p> <p class="reply"> We rented a compressor nail gun especially for nailing floors for the weekend and it was fairly straightforward. The only tricky part is the edges where the nail gun didn't fit because of the walls. There we had to drill and topnail with finishing nails. The hardest part was cutting parts of the molding around the doors to fit the bamboo under. We chose not to take off the molding because it is old and decorative and expensive. -- mss </p> <p> How hard is bamboo? Will it stand up to heavy objects on rollers being moved across it? Cat vomit? We are hard on floors around here. </p> <p class="reply"> It's lightweight but very hard. Like any hardwood it can be dented and scratched. Our rolling carts don't make a mark. The gas oven, on gliders, didn't dent it when we slid it over to put up the vent but a piece of dirt under one of the gliders caused a scratch. It's much tougher than the pine floors in the rest of the house. But not as tough as ceramic tile. -- mss </p> I’m about to start a project like this. Did you level the floors while there were still things in the room? Seems like you would have to remove everything.

The gas range was still in the room and we moved it from one spot to the other. Everything else had been removed. We’ve kept all our kitchen stuff on wheeled carts to make this easier. — mss

How hard was it to nail it down? I have never installed a floor.

We rented a compressor nail gun especially for nailing floors for the weekend and it was fairly straightforward. The only tricky part is the edges where the nail gun didn’t fit because of the walls. There we had to drill and topnail with finishing nails. The hardest part was cutting parts of the molding around the doors to fit the bamboo under. We chose not to take off the molding because it is old and decorative and expensive. — mss

How hard is bamboo? Will it stand up to heavy objects on rollers being moved across it? Cat vomit? We are hard on floors around here.

It’s lightweight but very hard. Like any hardwood it can be dented and scratched. Our rolling carts don’t make a mark. The gas oven, on gliders, didn’t dent it when we slid it over to put up the vent but a piece of dirt under one of the gliders caused a scratch. It’s much tougher than the pine floors in the rest of the house. But not as tough as ceramic tile. — mss

]]> By: Annie in Austin http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/old-house/kitchen-remodel/floored/comment-page-1#comment-29 Annie in Austin Mon, 25 Sep 2006 15:51:42 +0000 http://www.zanthan.com/wordsintobytes/uncategorized/floored#comment-29 M, it looks beautiful! Without the kitchen equipment and furniture, it also looks like a dance floor--maybe you and AJM took time for a celebratory dance before moving on to the next stage of the renovation? It also looks like it would feel good when walking barefoot. <p class="reply">Right on both counts. We did a little dance of joy (ever see "Perfect Strangers"?) And it does feel wonderful to walk on barefoot. Smooth but not hard. Cool but not cold. Now the pine floors in the rest of the house look really shoddy. If we ever finish the kitchen, I guess we'll have to do something about the living room. -- mss</p> M, it looks beautiful! Without the kitchen equipment and furniture, it also looks like a dance floor–maybe you and AJM took time for a celebratory dance before moving on to the next stage of the renovation? It also looks like it would feel good when walking barefoot.

Right on both counts. We did a little dance of joy (ever see “Perfect Strangers”?) And it does feel wonderful to walk on barefoot. Smooth but not hard. Cool but not cold. Now the pine floors in the rest of the house look really shoddy. If we ever finish the kitchen, I guess we’ll have to do something about the living room. — mss

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