Quote Originally Posted by badwhale View Post
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.