[elky] Re: A/C line
- From: "CTSVMONGO" <ctsvmongo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 18 Oct 2011 08:24:15 -0500
Ahhh, but if youre doing it yourself(tiling), youre still doing it for cheap
(as long as you know what you are doing and already have a saw) Grout and
all that other stuff does add up, but usually you can tile a room on your
own for less than you can pay someone to put down vinyl. I know not all
may agree, but in a couple of the houses I have done, inexpensive floor
tile(it will take some time to find a good looking one- the ones you can see
the pattern printed on are just aweful) used to cover shower walls, turned
at a 45 looks pretty darn good. It can add up, but isn't it worth it in the
end???
In my current house(downsized because of my new life. ) we found some swift
lock laminate flooring that was on sale for $1.99 a foot(I think it was
$1.99 for some unit of measure) anyway pretty cheap, at lowes. I used my
10% off coupon. This stuff looks and feels like real hickory flooring. It
came with the foam pad already glued to the back of each piece, and I
installed it myself in a weekend- in the kitchen, entry and dinette- about
475sqft. I have a 95lb Black lap and a 6 year old boy. Though we have only
been there with it installed 3-4 months, it still looks like it did when I
installed it. That stuff is very durable if you get a good one- and I am
very picky and had other opinions about that laminate(hated seeing it in
houses I sell and show) but this stuff, it really looks real- and people
that come into my house think it's the same real hickory flooring I had
installed in the last $320,000 house I built(around here that's a very
nicely equipped house-granite, maple cabinets thru out, stainless etc)
I thought I read something about pergo in there. so I went off on a rant.
It used to be pretty ugly but some of the new stuff.. Looks amazingly real,
and with a big absolutely crazy dog, I needed durable but hate tile in main
living areas. Its cold, wears out your socks (for real the grout is aweful
on them), and your feet and back hurt after only short periods working on
it. It looks amazing but it wasn't for me in the kitchen(probably could
have done it for about the same price as the laminate though?)
From: elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:elky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert Adams
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 9:51 PM
To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [elky] Re: A/C line
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Mary McCarthy <printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
The tile floor we know all about. Yes, the tile was 99 cents each. All 31
boxes with 15 in each. then there was the 4 $42 buckets of mastic. Then
all those little buckets of grout (we're old, we like pre-mixed stuff).
Eww stinky mastic. I'm not a fan of it other than a few small
jobs or repairs. Premix is allot easier though.
There was a gallon of sealant. the whole mess went over 24 sheets of
hardiboard @ about $11 each. Then there were all the little tools and saw
blades. Taking up the particle board and old vinyl floor was an unexpected
expense. Who knew we'd need to buy a roofing shovel? There are 1500 nails
holding the hardie board down. (like its going to go anywhere). We just
blew $175 on oak baseboard, shoe and stain. (we had an open gallon of floor
finish and used that to finish it). There was a mis-mixed gallon of touch
up paint, spackle and patches where the $%^&%*& plastic baseboard was glued
to the wallboard. We decided halfway through not to put the vanity back in
the bathroom so that was an unforeseen granite and faucet expense.
Yup it adds up really quick. The laundry room floor alone
will cost around $500-800 or so depending on what deals I can find on
craigslist or on tile row (highway 121, lots of tile places and other
suppliers) Going to find a ceramic she can live with instead of the
travertine cause ceramic is allot more durable and it's in a very high
traffic and rough use area.
and its still not done because we gave up over the weekend when the
baseboard is being cranky about fitting along our non-straight walls.
Yeah I know I was checking how a piece of crown molding would look in
the living room... It's going to be interesting to try to put it up in
there. I have a couple left over pieces of cherry I was using and Geri liked
it... I get 8' lengths of cherry crown for $80 a pack of 5 IIRC. I won't use
it in the house cause I prefer 16' pieces and no joints.
but the tile looks great! And they were only 99 cents each!
Mary
The travertine we just did was $2 a sq ft. The lighter the
color the higher the price.
Robert Adams
Drove my elky a couple weeks ago. Will probably drive it
tomorrow to make a materials run to HD. Need to start getting hardie board
for the tile floor. Just finished putting down travertine in a project I
have been working on for a while and she now wants that in the laundry room.
Luckily I overbuild floors so it's stiff enough for natural stone. The
laundry room and toilet are about 120sq ft. People don't have a clue what it
really costs to put any tile down. They see 69 cent tile at HD and think
it's not an expensive job.... Figure floor reinforcement, thinset, then
hardie board, then more thin set, tile, tile sealer,grout, grout sealer and
tile shiny sealer. And then the $$$ screws to put the board down.. Easily
add $3-8 a sq foot to the cost of the tile then that'll get you a rough
number of actual cost but on the low end if structure has to be reinforced.
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