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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2009, 04:07:10 PM »
ROFLMAO

It says "Rock Hard"  Putty with a bodybuilder doing the infamous "pose of cancer" on it.

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2009, 04:08:27 PM »
ROFLMAO

It says "Rock Hard"  Putty with a bodybuilder doing the infamous "pose of cancer" on it.

Anyone else spotting the homo-erotic innuendo?

this stuff owns all other wood bonding products it looks like whey protein inside actually
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2009, 04:10:20 PM »
What if the pine floor is from the early 1800s?  What do you do then?

pine floors are super shitty.  i'd imagine back then, it was the "pergo" equivalent.  do they even make pine flooring?  oak lasts for a thousand years if taken care of.  pine i'm not so sure of.  next time you're at a hardware store, look up the price of pine doors vs. solid oak.

if pine was any good, wouldn't arnold call himself the "Austrian Pine"?
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2009, 04:10:37 PM »
this stuff owns all other wood bonding products it looks like whey protein inside actually
I`d buy just because King Kamali is on the container.  Perhaps this is the secret ingredient in Plazmosis.

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2009, 04:11:50 PM »
pine floors are super shitty.  i'd imagine back then, it was the "pergo" equivalent.  do they even make pine flooring?  oak lasts for a thousand years if taken care of.  pine i'm not so sure of.  next time you're at a hardware store, look up the price of pine doors vs. solid oak.

if pine was any good, wouldn't arnold call himself the "Austrian Pine"?

they made alot of pine flooring in older houses that are still around today

you can doctor up any "shitty" floor
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2009, 04:12:36 PM »
tips for dudes selling their house:

if you have hardwood flooring underneath your shitty carpeting, spend a couple hundred and expose them.  chicks love hardwood floors even though i think they're a bitch to walk on, but look nice with a nice rug on them.
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2009, 04:13:20 PM »
pine floors are super shitty.  i'd imagine back then, it was the "pergo" equivalent.  do they even make pine flooring?  oak lasts for a thousand years if taken care of.  pine i'm not so sure of.  next time you're at a hardware store, look up the price of pine doors vs. solid oak.

if pine was any good, wouldn't arnold call himself the "Austrian Pine"?

Depending on location used to determine the value of flooring.  In a place with few pines, pine would be the most expensive.  In a place with few oaks, oak would be the most expensive and desirable.

Modern trade has made location scarcity less of a factor in determining value.

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #32 on: July 12, 2009, 04:13:45 PM »
they made alot of pine flooring in older houses that are still around today

you can doctor up any "shitty" floor

i'll take your word for it.  i just know that today pine, for doors or molding, etc. is laughed at.
don't you think oak's a lot better?
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #33 on: July 12, 2009, 04:14:51 PM »
Depending on location used to determine the value of flooring.  In a place with few pines, pine would be the most expensive.  In a place with few oaks, oak would be the most expensive and desirable.

Modern trade has made location scarcity less of a factor in determining value.

true.  today's mostly a factor of choice and price, where before availability was a huge issue.
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #34 on: July 12, 2009, 04:15:09 PM »
I did mine the American way. I hired two Koreans. We couldnt walk on it for 24 hours.
i got it cheaper with 1 el salvadorian in 24 hrs.  excellent results

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #35 on: July 12, 2009, 04:15:46 PM »
i'll take your word for it.  i just know that today pine, for doors or molding, etc. is laughed at.
don't you think oak's a lot better?

oh yes i agree oak is superior, they didnt know back then of course

yes hardwoods own carpet and hold up and are not a bitch to clean like carpet
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #36 on: July 12, 2009, 04:17:25 PM »
tips for dudes selling their house:

if you have hardwood flooring underneath your shitty carpeting, spend a couple hundred and expose them.  chicks love hardwood floors even though i think they're a bitch to walk on, but look nice with a nice rug on them.


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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #37 on: July 12, 2009, 04:19:07 PM »
Also, colonial houses used slow-growth Pine because they were meant to just age by the walking of the feet.  They were never sanded nor finished, instead polished by the boots and shoes of many a well met traveler.  In time they acquired a wonderful patina.

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #38 on: July 12, 2009, 04:21:01 PM »
Also, colonial houses used slow-growth Pine because they were meant to just age by the walking of the feet.  They were never sanded nor finished, instead polished by the boots and shoes of many a well met traveler.  In time they acquired a wonderful patina.

that's the same reason the guy told me he used pine flooring at one of those steakhouses where you throw peanuts on the floor, the "Lone Star Steakhouse" type.  He just put bare pine down, and said the scuffing and shoes would polish it eventually and age it.
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #39 on: July 12, 2009, 04:23:02 PM »
that's the same reason the guy told me he used pine flooring at one of those steakhouses where you throw peanuts on the floor, the "Lone Star Steakhouse" type.  He just put bare pine down, and said the scuffing and shoes would polish it eventually and age it.

The Oval Office in Pine Flooring.  Arguably one of the best jobs in the world.


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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #40 on: July 12, 2009, 04:23:10 PM »
i got it cheaper with 1 el salvadorian in 24 hrs.  excellent results

mexicans are cheaper

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #41 on: July 12, 2009, 04:28:05 PM »
mexicans are cheaper

gentlemen, please, let's not argue the cheapness of our south american brethren.  they are very cutthroat when it comes to pricing.

for example: i needed a tree cut down in my back yard cuz we had to put a new garage in, and there wasn't enough room for a 2 car.  anyways, here's the prices i got:

1. white guy - 2500, plus 400 for stump removal
2. mexican 1 - 2000, plus stump removal for free
3. mexican 2 - 1800 plus stump removal for free
4. mexican 3 - 1400, stump removal for free

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #42 on: July 12, 2009, 04:33:46 PM »
The Oval Office in Pine Flooring.  Arguably one of the best jobs in the world.


that is nice.  i'm a big fan of that old time paneling on the sides of the walls too.
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #43 on: July 12, 2009, 04:55:38 PM »
Also, colonial houses used slow-growth Pine because they were meant to just age by the walking of the feet.  They were never sanded nor finished, instead polished by the boots and shoes of many a well met traveler.  In time they acquired a wonderful patina.

"I have to tie myself to the floor so they must be hardwood or I shall float away, cause I am so ferrylike and graceful.."

this kid will finish your hardwood floors for 35cents a square foot and a case of Milwaukee's beast

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #44 on: July 12, 2009, 05:12:56 PM »
"I have to tie myself to the floor so they must be hardwood or I shall float away, cause I am so ferrylike and graceful.."

this kid will finish your hardwood floors for 35cents a square foot and a case of Milwaukee's beast

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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #45 on: July 12, 2009, 06:06:34 PM »
Great stuff, thank you very much gentlemen!
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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #46 on: July 12, 2009, 10:06:52 PM »
this is what you use to fill in cracks works everytime

this is actually wood water putty, not drywall putty/spakle.

sand the floor lightly by hand if you are not a pussy

sweep up all the dust

or rent one and finish a room in an hour for a 1-2 hour rent = only about 40 bucks

then put a 20% stain 80% polyeurathane WAX!mixture on the floor for a glossy finish


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Re: Refinishing Hardwood Floors...
« Reply #47 on: July 12, 2009, 10:08:38 PM »
Anyone done it?

Shit no, I paid people to do it. ;D