Quote Originally Posted by heftysmokes View Post
In your opinion. I, myself, enjoy exceptionally filthy kitchen floors. Where else are the mice and kids going to get their nourishment?

In all seriousness, and not trying to stir up shit, but what difference in wear, look (aside from the obvious), and functionality would there be in properly polyuerethaning a hardwood floor versus a penny floor be? Doesn't the poly do the same job regardless of what kind of surface it is covering? I'm not asking this to argue, I'm asking because I have zero experience with hardwood floors or poly and genuinely don't know)

Because the poly you would use to finish or refinish a new or existing hardwood floor wouldn't work in this application. You need something that winds up with some sort of thickness to it like the epoxy type products used for bar tops where it fills in the spaces between the pennies. That's exactly what was used in the examples that the mock guy gave from that website he gave a link to. The only way you're not going to end up with it cracking is if you put your pennies over concrete first as any kind of wood sub floor would move around too much causing the epoxy to crack and break up. So no Will you do have to account for a more costly sub floor contrary to what you may be thinking.