Floor Coverings - Ahh Yeah!

[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"