Flooring
Can anyone recommend a place in or around the city to buy solid hardwood flooring at a good price? Also looking for recommendations for a relatively inexpensive and reliable person to install and possibly finish. We are still deciding between unfinished and prefinished (solid wood). I prefer the look of site finished, but it seems…
Can anyone recommend a place in or around the city to buy solid hardwood flooring at a good price? Also looking for recommendations for a relatively inexpensive and reliable person to install and possibly finish. We are still deciding between unfinished and prefinished (solid wood). I prefer the look of site finished, but it seems that when the costs of materials and labor are totalled, prefinished is much more economical. Am I wrong?
I would be happy to provide you with a quote for this project. Based upon the project — I sell the material at cost. Since I buy a lot every week – my saving is great. Better then Lumber Liquidators.
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Try L&B Fine Home Improvement Supply, they are located under the Gowanus at 360 Hamilton Ave (look for blue awning). Telephone # is 718-852-0343. The owners are Chinese, very nice and attentive and the flooring prices are unbelievable. Very good selection of fine woods and they also do the installation. I found then randomly as I was going to Home Depot, Thank God…cause I saved alot of money! Ask for Lillian or Ben. Tell them Allan recommended you. Good luck!
Just call around to local lumber stores and get quotes. Depending on what wood you choose and the suppliers stock, prices can vary. No one store is the necessarily cheapest. Sino Carpet on Bowery is one of the places I’ve bought Bruce prefinished oak. Homedepot also sells it pretty cheap.
I’m a landlord and have supervised many renovations.
If you want to be economical, prefinished flooring is the way to go. Good prefinished wood has up to ten coats of poly while typical floor refinishers only do three coats. I’ve usually gone with Bruce Prefinished Hardwood which I believe costs about $4.25 a square foot. Tenants can be very rough, but these floors have help up much much better than the ones I installed raw and had finished.
For a recent high end renovation of a project I plan to sell, I made the misake of using cheaper floor finishers and had to completely redo the floors with more better and more expensive floor guys. I recommend using only highly recommended floor finishers, otherwise you could be in for a real nightmare job — especially if you’re staining the wood as well, which takes much more patience and skill.
Good luck
Lumber Liquidators also has a showroom in Manhattan, near ABC Carpet on B’way/19th. I don’t remember the exact street or address, but it’s in the phone book.
There is great variation in quality in pre-finished floors; better quality ones have a more durable finish. Lumber Liquidators can be good–but be suspicious of anything really cheap.
we bought our pre-finished mahogany flooring from the place on third avenue under the gowanus – i think it’s in the 30’s and called premium hardwood. one thing with pre-finished, or ours at least- was that it scratched easily – like furniture does. not sure if others have had similar experience. i would do site finished next time.
lumber liquidators in hackensack.