Wood Floor replacement costs


We have, unfortunately, “cheaped out” in the past on some home renovation projects on which we felt we could reasonably save some money, and went on to regret it. I don’t want to make same mistake, but also don’t want to spend huge bucks over what is necessary to have a nice quality job. We are looking to replace about 2,000 sq. feet of old, scuffed, mismatched, 2 1/4″, 100+ year old Maple floors (and quite probably quite a bit of squeaky pine subflooring as well) with 5 or 6″ pre-finished hardwood – don’t know what kind yet. We’ve had a few estimates, and they are hugely discrepant. Anywhere from 10.00 per sq. foot, all in, from LL, to $22.00 per sq. foot for really high quality wood from a company who received good reviews in the Franklin Report (and I liked and trusted him btw, but that’s a BIG number!) My question is, what can one reasonably expect to pay for a really nice job?

Categories: Floors
By Nokilissa | 04/13/2011 3:02 PM | Comment

Creaking wood floors


Anyone have any ideas as to how to remedy creaking, groaning, 90 plus year old floor boards? Our loft only squeaks and creaks horribly in certain spots (of course right outside of sleeping children’s rooms is one of worst offending areas!) but it is a real pain. We’ve heard that the way to fix is by locating the boards below – crawl space – which we do not have.
And does talcum powder actually work? Or make it worse…

Thank you in advance!

Categories: Floors
By Nokilissa | 06/21/2008 9:18 PM | Comment