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#154007 15-Oct-2014 10:55

Hi Guys,

Anyone had experience or any recommendation for getting wooden floors installed?

Looking to remove the carpet from our lounge and replacing it with wooden floors.

Any help would be good

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#1154258 15-Oct-2014 10:58

Whats under the carpet? concrete?, wood ( chip/ply)?

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#1154259 15-Oct-2014 10:59

How old is your house? You might find you have lovely native floors that just need sanding and polishing to make like new. We sanded our floors recently and it looks amazing. We had to purchase some matai wood from a specialist native wood company and we used www.jameshenry.co.nz

They're based in Upper Hutt (wellington) but could be an option, although I'm sure there are similar companies all over NZ.

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#1154280 15-Oct-2014 11:07

wellygary: Whats under the carpet? concrete?, wood ( chip/ply)?

Concrete

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#1154281 15-Oct-2014 11:08

MileHighKiwi: How old is your house? You might find you have lovely native floors that just need sanding and polishing to make like new. We sanded our floors recently and it looks amazing. We had to purchase some matai wood from a specialist native wood company and we used www.jameshenry.co.nz

They're based in Upper Hutt (wellington) but could be an option, although I'm sure there are similar companies all over NZ.

House is around 4 years old, forgot to mention i'm in Auckland

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#1154322 15-Oct-2014 11:52

You have two options - floating or glued to the floor. Floating is cheap and fast to install, but you can't get it resurfaced. Glued down they can lay a plank which can be sanded back and resurfaced but it ends up takinga while to install as it genrally gets snaded and coated on site.

Do you want real wood or is synthetic laminate OK. We were going down the road with engineered timber (floating timber veneer with laminate back) but because we have a biggish dog we ended up going with a synthetic product. We used Quickstep Eligna. Installation took one day so it's not too disruptive.

It cost $2800 inc GST installed for 21m2. We are incredibly happy with it, on year on (with a 3 year old and a 27 kg dog) there are no marks, despite both being a bit mental.

Edit: Finish sentence.

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#1154333 15-Oct-2014 12:06

Handle9: You have two options - floating or glued to the floor. Floating is cheap and fast to install, but you can't get it resurfaced. Glued down they can lay a plank which can be sanded back and resurfaced but it ends up takinga while to install as it genrally gets snaded and coated on site.

Do you want real wood or is synthetic laminate OK. We were going down the road with engineered timber (floating timber veneer with laminate back) but because we have a biggish dog we ended up going with a synthetic product. We used Quickstep Eligna. Installation took one day so it's not too disruptive.

It cost $2800 inc GST installed for 21m2. We are incredibly happy with it, on year on (with a 3 year old and a 27 kg dog) there are no marks, despite both being a bit mental.

Edit: Finish sentence.

Thanks this is great help! I think i will be going with synthetic laminate too

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#1154341 15-Oct-2014 12:22

No worries. I wouldn't put anything in or out until you go and have a look and talk to a few people.

For me it was pretty telling when both suppliers (Torlys and Carpet Court) I got to quote pointed me at the laminate rather than engineered timber, even though the engineered timber was more expensive.

I ended up going carpet court as the Torlys guys was useless.

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#1154431 15-Oct-2014 14:09

Thanks again, I have contacted my local carpet court to come have a measure and quote.

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#1154487 15-Oct-2014 14:49

I have a 1920s bungalow and have exposed wooden floors but I needed to replace the carpet on a concrete slab added at the back of the house. I ended up going for loose lay wood-look vinyl from Karndean (http://www.karndean.com/en-nz/floors/look/wood-flooring) - it actually looks really good and was a close match to the real stuff. It's in a high traffic area and after 12 months has no marks - unlike the real wooden floors which have copped a beating from my kids.

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#1155723 15-Oct-2014 21:52

We got Torlys engineered floating floor 3 years ago. Roughly 60 or so sqm for close to $10k. The sales guy in Auckland made us happy, no issues with the install or performance. The floor comes with a 30 year warranty, essentially as long as we clean it regularly only with their cleaning stuff (and a bottle does go a very long way, still on our first one as it is highly concentrated) and you wipe up water spills so it does not have time to enter the joints.

Engineered wood is a combination of high density fibre base with a hardwood layer and aluminium oxide (abrasion resistance). Hard wood is hard, but it bruises so the base is there to help prevent bruising. Normal cheap laminate is soft wood which scratches very easily.

BTW I've noticed our AA home insurance only covers glued down flooring, so the timber floor is not covered and I guess neither is the carpet.

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#1155725 15-Oct-2014 21:59

That might have changed. Mine has. Anyway if not it will be under contents insurance.

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#1156082 16-Oct-2014 13:21

We've just put down some glued on flooring from Carpet Court in our new home. Main reason was that it didn't have that hollow sound when walking over like you do with floating floors.
The glued on sounded a lot more solid. We went with an edge pattern around the house and looks quite cool!

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#1156096 16-Oct-2014 13:42

do you hear anything with glued down? I noticed when I was looking at houses to buy a couple of years ago, that walking on the floating stuff sounded horrible and put me off the houses that had it.

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#1156109 16-Oct-2014 14:02

No sound whatsoever. Feels like a solid wooden floor!
We've also laid this stuff into our scullery cum laundry as its moisture resistant etc
We were put off from the floating floors for the exact same reason.
Cost wise was about the same, but install was more.

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#1156167 16-Oct-2014 15:00

Niel: BTW I've noticed our AA home insurance only covers glued down flooring, so the timber floor is not covered and I guess neither is the carpet.

Carpet is contents as my folks found out when their rental got burnt out...

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