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js250
Right now our house is the same as when we moved in about 11-12 years ago...wall to wall frickin' carpet. Oh, how I hate carpet everywhere, especially the kitchen and bathrooms!!!!
I am going to have hardwood in the kitchen/dining area,
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Right now our house is the same as when we moved in about 11-12 years ago...wall to wall frickin' carpet. Oh, how I hate carpet everywhere, especially the kitchen and bathrooms!!!!
I am going to have hardwood in the kitchen/dining area, carpet in the bedrooms/living room, granite tile in both bathrooms and rhino lined alumalite in the cycle room/shop and parts room and linoleum in the shipping/office room. (I can get and do the rhino lined board in my sign shop, the granite slabs are local and I can cut and polish them in the outdoor shop after I gather the granite from the mountains...they are loaded with granite, quartz and petrified wood.)
THEN--I am going to rhino line the outdoor shop, the showroom shed and the parts & paint shed. Someday..........
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Love the idea of you going to the source, harvesting the material, finishing it yourself & installing! That is so cool! You are one handy woman to have around with all your skills & tools!
I'm sorry to say it, but I did cringe at the idea of wall to wall carpet in your kitchen & bathrooms! What were the previous owners thinking? I suppose you already checked under them to see what you have? I thought I was getting pristine white oak upstairs after pulling back the corners of the wall to wall carpet. Well, once the workers ripped it all out, we were in for a horrendous surprise! Yes, it had been pristine oak, but someone had taken a nail gun type gizmo to all of it, presumably to stop the squeaking. There were nails with broken off tops, every two inches. Even if we could have removed them, it would leave behind Swiss cheese & couldn't be refinished, nor was it safe to walk on with all the jagged edges where the tops of the nails were cut off, some were flush & others were raised! The entire floor in both of the two bedrooms & hallways upstairs were trashed! The contractor had never seen anything like it before.
I couldn't leave the carpet & couldn't afford to remove the flooring & start over. I was so upset because I can't tolerate linoleum, (chemical sensitivities). I finally found a 1/2" instead of 3/4" pre-finished white oak hardwood that just barely fit over top & wouldn't raise the floor too much & could still allow the doors to function, but it was close. I wanted hardwood in my kitchen & everyone was telling my I had to get tile, but I like the look of hardwood & I'm the one looking at it all day! Well, now everyone who sees it loves it
So, if you don't have destructive animals or children, I say try it, it's so much warmer than cold tile!