Sunday, July 24, 2011

Home improvement project of the season

We finally started the most recent exercise in home owning frustration.  After being pestered about a host of potential projects we started the main level flooring redo. I say pestered because I have a rule: No projects during boating seasons (besides short raining day ones), so maybe no multi-day projects during boating season.  Well it was a successful campaign.  After going around and around about material selection (could be a story in itself) we finally settled on bamboo.  We got 680 sqft engineered bamboo from Lowes for our main level (great room and kitchen). Here is a synopsis:

Install time
2 partial days of carpet demo (dump trips = 2) and underlayment install
2.1 full days of flooring install (so far) (2 more sessions (planned))
1 day of molding and basement step install

costs: flooring and tee molding     $2900 (Lowes included delivery)
underlayment                              $170 (Hd)
foam padding                              $65 (Amazon)
molding 1/4 round                       $150 (Hd, the lowes 1/4 round was $400)



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