Floor Coverings - Ahh Yeah!

[badwhale]

Hey dumbass, what about adhesive and finish?

By the way, where are you getting your "$1.44 sqft" number from? Oh, okay 12x12 sqft blocks of pennies, no shit, I had no idea that pennies were a fucking inch in diameter.

I don't know what country you're finding your pennies in but in the USA and Canada they're 3/4" in diameter which means you need at least 256 (16x16) of them to cover a square foot, not 144 which is $2.56 sqft (your price almost doubled, didn't it?) and like I said, that still doesn't include adhesive and whatever expensive epoxy you plan on sealing/covering it with.

Of course it's also highly illegal to use currency like this in the United States, check "TITLE 18, PART I, CHAPTER 17, 331. Mutilation, diminution, and falsification of coins" of the US Code and see what can happen to one's sorry ass if they get caught.

Costwise, this is still on par with other flooring prices. I'm doing some eng. hardwood that's $3 finished. Add labor, you're probably up around $4. Unfinished will get you to about $4, while reconditioning, you'll be at around $3 - $3.50

I'll leave the opinion of if it looks like shit or not to the individual.

[CoventryCat86]

Costwise, this is still on par with other flooring prices. I'm doing some eng. hardwood that's $3 finished. Add labor, you're probably up around $4. Unfinished will get you to about $4, while reconditioning, you'll be at around $3 - $3.50

I'll leave the opinion of if it looks like shit or not to the individual.

"Finishing" hardwood and "finishing" this stupid coin floor idea are two completely different methods. You don't just put a couple of coats of polyurethane over the coins and call it a day, you'll need to use some kind of expensive epoxy bar type finish like those used by people on bar tops and that stuff ain't cheap. Besides that, it won't stand up for use on a floor and will look like crap after a couple of weeks of use. You also have an added cost of some type of sub-floor material on which to attach the coins.

So this is NOT "on par" with other flooring prices.

[ashauler]

"Finishing" hardwood and "finishing" this stupid coin floor idea are two completely different methods. You don't just put a couple of coats of polyurethane over the coins and call it a day, you'll need to use some kind of expensive epoxy bar type finish like those used by people on bar tops and that stuff ain't cheap. Besides that, it won't stand up for use on a floor and will look like crap after a couple of weeks of use. You also have an added cost of some type of sub-floor material on which to attach the coins.

So this is NOT "on par" with other flooring prices.

Huh? That makes no sense. A floor is a floor is a floor.....Marble costs more than concrete. Who gives a fuck if they require "different methods". Cost is cost.

[CoventryCat86]

Huh? That makes no sense. A floor is a floor is a floor.....Marble costs more than concrete. Who gives a fuck if they require "different methods". Cost is cost.

Huh? It makes perfect sense. He was trying to claim this penny idea was "on par" with finished hardwood floors or three to four dollars per square foot and that's not true.

[ashauler]

Huh? It makes perfect sense. He was trying to claim this penny idea was "on par" with finished hardwood floors or three to four dollars per square foot and that's not true.

How do you know that? Do you have a penny floor?

[CoventryCat86]

How do you know that? Do you have a penny floor?

I don't need to have a penny floor to know that.

[ashauler]

I don't need to have a penny floor to know that.

Really? How?

I don't have a penny floor, so I admit I have no idea how much it would actually cost to install or have installed for me. Hard wood I got....carpet I got....tile I got, so I could speak with reasonable intelligence about those kind of costs.

[heftysmokes]

As long as your coin is well-affixed to the subfloor, you could splash a couple coats of poly on it and be good to go. I'd hate to try to clean the filth in all the cracks between the pennies, but you could do it on the cheap.

Just sayin'

[CoventryCat86]

As long as your coin is well-affixed to the subfloor, you could splash a couple coats of poly on it and be good to go. I'd hate to try to clean the filth in all the cracks between the pennies, but you could do it on the cheap.

Just sayin'

No, you're NOT going to "be good to go" by "splash(ing) a couple of coats of poly on it" and end up with a result that is acceptable for anything other than a tree fort. This would be totally unacceptable to what the author of this thread is looking to do which is for ideas for a KITCHEN FLOOR (talk about the highest traffic area in any house other than a tree fort) in an old house that he's renovating for his use and probably trying to add value to his home for future resale as opposed to the tree fort which kids will lose interest in next year.

If you want to "do it on the cheap" you could put down carpeting too like George suggested or hell, just leave 3/4" CDX sub floor! Both of those alternatives are better than just gluing down pennies and splashing a couple of coat of MinWax on it.

[heftysmokes]

No, you're NOT going to "be good to go" by "splash(ing) a couple of coats of poly on it" and end up with a result that is acceptable for anything other than a tree fort. This would be totally unacceptable to what the author of this thread is looking to do which is for ideas for a KITCHEN FLOOR (talk about the highest traffic area in any house other than a tree fort) in an old house.

If you want to "do it on the cheap" you could put down carpeting too like George suggested or hell, just leave 3/4" CDX sub floor! Both of those alternatives are better than just gluing down pennies and splashing a couple of coat of MinWax on it.

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)

[badwhale]

"Finishing" hardwood and "finishing" this stupid coin floor idea are two completely different methods. You don't just put a couple of coats of polyurethane over the coins and call it a day, you'll need to use some kind of expensive epoxy bar type finish like those used by people on bar tops and that stuff ain't cheap. Besides that, it won't stand up for use on a floor and will look like crap after a couple of weeks of use. You also have an added cost of some type of sub-floor material on which to attach the coins.

So this is NOT "on par" with other flooring prices.

Yes it is. I think "on-par" could go up to $5/SF and still be a vaild statement. There are domestic and exotic hardwood floors that exceed that SF prcie. If it tripled the SF price, then no.

You can't count sub-floor. Any floor needs a proper sub-floor.