We’ve been renovating for a long time on a shoestring, and are hoping to finally realize rental income on this baby and move into the owner’s duplex upstairs very soon. <\/p>\n
There is one last hurdle: flooring. <\/p>\n
We will have a hardibacker subfloor over hydronic radiant heat (hardi is the thermal mass). In the future, when we have money again, we will be putting down a nice engineered wood floor, but it could really be awhile. We need an interim floor that is *very* inexpensive, won’t need to be taken up in order to put down the real floor, and will last up to 5 years, because who knows how long this economy will suck?<\/p>\n %<\/span><\/span> | %<\/span><\/a> ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve been renovating for a long time on a shoestring, and are hoping to finally realize rental income on this baby and move into the owner’s duplex upstairs very soon. There is one last hurdle: flooring. We will have a hardibacker subfloor over hydronic radiant heat (hardi is the thermal mass). In the future, when…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5542,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"schneps_byline":"","schneps_post_style":"","schneps_post_source":"","schneps_syndicated_read_more":"","schneps_post_source_sitename":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_html":"","schneps_syndicated_thumb_src":"","schneps_post_source_shortname":"","schneps_post_source_url":"","schneps_post_source_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"districts":[],"class_list":["post-27572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-floors"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/cork-tiles-dog\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Cork Tiles + Dog","url":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/cork-tiles-dog\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/www.brownstoner.com\/forum-archive\/2009\/01\/cork-tiles-dog\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":""},"articleSection":"Floors","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"vanburenproud"}],"creator":["vanburenproud"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Forum Archive","logo":""},"keywords":[],"dateCreated":"2009-01-08T07:43:09Z","datePublished":"2009-01-08T07:43:09Z","dateModified":"2009-01-08T07:43:10Z"},"rendered":"