Browse Forums Flooring & Floor Covering Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 7Feb 13, 2010 10:48 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 9Feb 13, 2010 11:12 pm Where you are coming from is where you are going to... Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 11Feb 15, 2010 12:18 pm ... built a Promenade with Clarendon. viewtopic.php?f=31&t=25104 20-10-09 - excavation and piering completed ... 12-04-10 - Basins fixed. Connecting to the electrical grid 23-04-10 - PCI 07-05-10 - HANDOVER! Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 14Feb 15, 2010 2:46 pm Sarad Does anyone have Tassie Oak Floors + kids? Thanks! me me me!!! we've had our tassie oak flooring for over a year now and don't regret it at all. My kids are now 21 months and 4.5yrs and there have been a few marks from throwing things down in middle of tantrum, but not as many as i had expected (I learned of the janka rating only after i chose it and initially wished i'd chosen something harder, but not now). We do have soft felt sticky thngs under every item of furniture, and we don't wear shoes in the house, and I think these two factors help immensely in the floors care, not to mention cleanliness (esp with the shoes - on the odd occasion someone has come in with shoes it needs a mop straight away!) We have high gloss finish and when the floor is freshly mopped it looks absolutely gorgeous and brand new, you really can't notice the few gouges/scratches here and there. Only because I know they are there would I even look for them, and even then I have trouble finding them. So I would say go for the tassie oak, they are beautiful floors and I don't regret our choice at all "Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions." — Elizabeth Gilbert Living in our new house. Currently scaping the land. Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 15Feb 15, 2010 3:43 pm we went for the starnd woven bamboo and when we move in I will tell you all about it the reasons we went with the bamboo is we could get it in a darker colour, its a lot harder and wears much better and it was basically the same price as tassie oak. I would have loved spotted gum but was just too much of a stretch on the budget. Oh you can get light coloured bamboo if thats what you like colour wise Blog: http://funmore-residence.blogspot.com/ Forum: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=21109 Construction Start - 19/09/09 Slab Poured - 21/10/09 Frame Completed - 25/11/09 Lockup - 22/12/09 Fixing - 22/02/10 Handover & Moved In 30/04/2010 Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 16Feb 15, 2010 3:51 pm got brushbox & bamboo. Given another go I would have strandwoven bamboo everywhere. definately does not scratch as easily as the brushbox. progress viewtopic.php?f=31&t=20401 sculptures viewtopic.php?f=36&t=26607 pole trouble viewtopic.php?f=3&t=25988 Re: Wooden Floors - How important is the hardness rank? 17Feb 17, 2010 4:52 pm If you don't like scratches and dents - don't buy a timber floor. You don't have to "wish" for them as such, but they are going to get damaged, dented, darken with age and age along with you. Thats the beauty of them - that most people miss. If you want a "perfect" (rather than natural features), hard wearing, scratch and dent resistant floor - you need a laminate. It's easy for me though - I LOVE old world, beaten up, characteristic flooring - thats hard to get in OZ, but easy to get in the US. I am building soon and have to buy a featured tassie oak, shot blast it with ball bearings and drive a couple of trucks over it randomly, then stain it chocolate - but I am in the industry so I have to have a unique floor (like your hairdresser with the crazy hair cut). Good luck. Old Home Restoration / Renovation To reduce noise transfer without compromising the aesthetic of your exposed I beams, consider filling the 100mm gap between the I beams and the floor above with dense,… 6 9124 The worst thing you can do is sign a building contract without a pre contract review. Over the years many people have come to me with disputes where they just signed… 0 8339 2 4672 |