Floor Coverings - Ahh Yeah!

[craig]

The more a kitchen is used/stood in, the more you might want to consider Pirelli industrial flooring.

ETA: It is called "Activa" these days.

[FightingFish]

The more a kitchen is used/stood in, the more you might want to consider Pirelli industrial flooring.

ETA: It is called "Activa" these days.

These studded tiles are the rubber flooring I am interested in. I actually like the idea of a commercial look to the kitchen floor. We had thought about cement floor, but don't think we could support the weight.

[CoventryCat86]

I'm a fan of hardwood flooring. I would recommend raw wood (as opposed to pre-finished), finished with a primer and at least two coats of oil based polyurethane. My step-son is a flooring contractor and that's what he recommends. He's installed hundreds of floors and knows his $hit. I know it's tempting to try and do it yourself but DO NOT DO THAT. Installing hardwood floors really needs to be done by someone who specializes in just that who has experience doing it. You have to have done the sub-floor properly, let the flooring acclimate to your house, meaning that you have to store the flooring material in the room where you plan to install it for at least three weeks to let it stabilize, check the moisture of the sub-flooring and the flooring itself, etc. There's even more to it than that, I'm just repeating only a small percentage of the things that absolutely need to be considered and taken care of after listening to my step-son describe how he does this. Like I said, it's not easy if you want it to come out right and last for a while.

Don't get fancy, go with red oak, don't even think about pine or anything soft, it will look like crap in no time.

[mrtr33]

Go nuts. Go with cork.

[CoventryCat86]

Go nuts. Go with cork.

Cork is only good for stoppers in wine bottles.

[bmock50]

Copper flooring is ~$1.44 sqft

http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com...-flooring.html

[ggiese]

Can't go wrong with carpeting - it evenly covers all kinds of sins.

[cinda]

Copper flooring is ~$1.44 sqft

http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com...-flooring.html

I was thinking who would do that and target their house for the people looking to cut copper out of your house for a few dollars. Then I though 1.44? what is he talking about? OMG what a kewl idea I like it!

[CoventryCat86]

Copper flooring is ~$1.44 sqft

http://thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com...-flooring.html

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.

[badwhale]

These studded tiles are the rubber flooring I am interested in. I actually like the idea of a commercial look to the kitchen floor. We had thought about cement floor, but don't think we could support the weight.

Forget all this other static...any movement on this yet? Leaning any one direction? Inquiring minds want to know.

Will

[FightingFish]

Forget all this other static...any movement on this yet? Leaning any one direction? Inquiring minds want to know.

Will

We are waiting on some rubber flooring samples. I used the info@prfgroup email and never received anything. After calling yesterday, somebody gave me their email @prfgroup.com. So I put another request in for samples.

This penny stuff is rather amusing. I'm afraid that would clash with our nickle flooring in the foyer.
We have carpeting in the kitchenb right now believe it or not. When we moved in the entire house was carpeted except for vinyl flooring in the bathroom. So far we've pulled almost all the carpeting up and refinished some of the old hardwood. After sanding, we simply waxed the hell out of the wood. Kinda a pain to buff every year, but its got a nice country appeal to it. If we go with the rubber flooring I think I'll be getting an oreck orbital.

[badwhale]

Oh okay, I've never used it before. Is that the same stuff they use to back ceramic tiles for back splashes? If so, I'm not so confident that it would provide an adequate backing for gluing the pennies to in this application. I can see how it would work fairly well to put over a wooden sub floor to then place ceramic tile over but I still can't see it holding up without cracking if you were to simply glue pennies to it and then coat it with an epoxy bar top type of finish never mind just splashing it with a couple of coats of polyurethane.

I used cement board under a tile floor in the downstairs bathroom. It is waterproof.

Also, I said I would glue the pennies down, and then grout to the surface of the pennies, then bar top epoxy. I bet it would work.

ETA: I just typed in "cement board" on google, and a shitload of images came up, FYI.

We are waiting on some rubber flooring samples. I used the info@prfgroup email and never received anything. After calling yesterday, somebody gave me their email @prfgroup.com. So I put another request in for samples.

This penny stuff is rather amusing. I'm afraid that would clash with our nickle flooring in the foyer.
We have carpeting in the kitchenb right now believe it or not. When we moved in the entire house was carpeted except for vinyl flooring in the bathroom. So far we've pulled almost all the carpeting up and refinished some of the old hardwood. After sanding, we simply waxed the hell out of the wood. Kinda a pain to buff every year, but its got a nice country appeal to it. If we go with the rubber flooring I think I'll be getting an oreck orbital.

LOL

[heftysmokes]

It would work. I framed in a custom shower stall with hardie backer(basically cement board) with a bench and tiled it. Works great. No cracks in the grout. Of course the bench isn't getting the same use as a kitchen floor, but it's 3/8" thick and holds my fat ass up when I'm too tired to stand in the shower
Cement board screwed down to a a solid subfloor, then pennies glued down with a poly finish...I think it would hold up (based on my experience with pennies, cement board, tile, and glue--I still have a penny glued to my garage floor from the vanity project and that fucker is not at all interested in coming up).
I also think it would look stupid.

[CoventryCat86]

It would work. I framed in a custom shower stall with hardie backer(basically cement board) with a bench and tiled it. Works great. No cracks in the grout. Of course the bench isn't getting the same use as a kitchen floor, but it's 3/8" thick and holds my fat ass up when I'm too tired to stand in the shower
Cement board screwed down to a a solid subfloor, then pennies glued down with a poly finish...I think it would hold up (based on my experience with pennies, cement board, tile, and glue--I still have a penny glued to my garage floor from the vanity project and that fucker is not at all interested in coming up).
I also think it would look stupid.

This penny stuff is rather amusing. I'm afraid that would clash with our nickle flooring in the foyer.

LMAO at the both of you!

[CoventryCat86]

I used cement board under a tile floor in the downstairs bathroom. It is waterproof.

Also, I said I would glue the pennies down, and then grout to the surface of the pennies, then bar top epoxy. I bet it would work.

ETA: I just typed in "cement board" on google, and a shitload of images came up, FYI.



LOL

I'm still not so sure...Since his house is old, the existing flooring probably isn't as stable as new or modern construction which is why I think it will move around and eventually crack your cement board and ultimately the bar top epoxy. I also think that this method winds up being fairly costly, far more than bmock's "~$1.44 sqft"

Oh I'm sorry, the asshole said "approximately"