[CalcTeacher]

My parents used Nickle Tile for engineered hardwoods in their designer home about a year ago. Very pleased with everything but a little expensive.

My husband and I are now looking at engineered hardwood for our new home and read a lot of good things about East Coast...but all the comments refer to laminate flooring!

We want engineered hardwoods...do they do that? Has anyone used them for that?

[ducati1974]

Yes, we used East Coast Flooring to do our master bed suite in engineered lumber this past December. The whole experience was excellent from the salesman thru their impressive work crew. Everything was done on time, as promised, and installed nicely. We would highly recommend them.

[CalcTeacher]

Originally Posted by ducati1974

Yes, we used East Coast Flooring to do our master bed suite in engineered lumber this past December. The whole experience was excellent from the salesman thru their impressive work crew. Everything was done on time, as promised, and installed nicely. We would highly recommend them.

Thanks for the prompt reply. Lots of people talk about using quarter-round instead of removing baseboard...did they use quarter-round? What brand of engineered floor did you use? Did you shop around for price...do you remember what you paid per square foot?

Thanks again for your prompt reply!

[Belmont4-150]

Originally Posted by CalcTeacher

My parents used Nickle Tile for engineered hardwoods in their designer home about a year ago. Very pleased with everything but a little expensive.

My husband and I are now looking at engineered hardwood for our new home and read a lot of good things about East Coast...but all the comments refer to laminate flooring!

We want engineered hardwoods...do they do that? Has anyone used them for that?

I hear they do good work. I used Royal Palm Flooring. They do a great job, competitive price, and they are the only store I know that does transitions to tile and sliders without thresholds. They work the wood so that it fits to the tile and sliders without any height difference. This saves money because you don't have to buy any of the expensive thresholds. Call Todd at 205.7650

[jimbo2012]

Have U considered real 1/2" or 3/4" pre-finished hardwood, not much difference in costs but the look & feel is very different.

Never wears out and very solid......oh you also get taller!

[GaryW]

East Coast did our house. We had laminate, but orignally were getting engineered hardwood. The cost is more. I just did not like the idea of gluing to the slab. The laminate floors are so nice now, that for us was a better way to go. But they will do them for you. Darryl was our installer, and did great job. They are doing our kitchen in a couple of weeks.

[flyermama]

Originally Posted by CalcTeacher

My parents used Nickle Tile for engineered hardwoods in their designer home about a year ago. Very pleased with everything but a little expensive.

My husband and I are now looking at engineered hardwood for our new home and read a lot of good things about East Coast...but all the comments refer to laminate flooring!

We want engineered hardwoods...do they do that? Has anyone used them for that?

We used them for both and loved the results.

[jimbo2012]

If they do floors without thresholds I don't think they know what they are doing.

That is not in my opinion the professional woodworkers way to do any type of wood floor.

Let me be blunt-that's the half ass way to do it.

You are supposed to take a piece of wood the thickness of the tile or wood floor, which ever is greater and then bevel it to the lesser thickness.

This piece is usually about 4-6" wide.



Are you going to tell me they use 1/4 round moldings too!

If they do keep looking for a pro.

You take all the moldings off clean then up and air nail them back.


.Not sure how they get away with sub standard workmanship.


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[Belmont4-150]

Jimbo,
It's nice to give referrals when you have had work done. It is also often better to warn fellow Villagers about bad workmanship that you have experienced. It is not cool to knock good work that others have talked about and that you have not seen. That defeats the helpfulness of the forum.

Royal Palm took off my baseboards, sanded and painted them, reinstalled, caulked and puttied them. In a few instances they re-cut them for a better fit.

Where the wood met carpet they turned one plank of wood 90 degrees to the rest making a 'return' level to the hardwood and fit the carpet to that.

Where the wood met the tile they actually had to re-cut the tile with a grinder to get a straight edge then put the same 'return' to that edge leaving a slight space that they caulked in matching the grout. The space was for potential expansion. Since our wood was thicker than the tile they ran the 'return' through a planer to bring it to the tile height.

All our transitions to other floors are PERFECTLY flush and level and professionally done. The two owners were on the job the entire time and did all of the detail work. They each have 30-40 years experience installing flooring. Also, when I asked about other stores they had absolutely nothing bad to say about any of them, just told us how they were different.

A clincher for me was that they did all of the work with no deposit and the job was 1200 square feet of premium flooring!

I'll post pics later!

[jimbo2012]

Wasn't a knock.

U may want to read my comments again, the post above mine said they didn't use thresholds, that is what I was addressing.

If people don't know that they should be there I was making them aware of that fact along with the moldings that many installers fail to do correctly.

Yours were done right apparently.

[CalcTeacher]

Originally Posted by Belmont4-150

Jimbo,
It's nice to give referrals when you have had work done. It is also often better to warn fellow Villagers about bad workmanship that you have experienced. It is not cool to knock good work that others have talked about and that you have not seen. That defeats the helpfulness of the forum.

Royal Palm took off my baseboards, sanded and painted them, reinstalled, caulked and puttied them. In a few instances they re-cut them for a better fit.

Where the wood met carpet they turned one plank of wood 90 degrees to the rest making a 'return' level to the hardwood and fit the carpet to that.

Where the wood met the tile they actually had to re-cut the tile with a grinder to get a straight edge then put the same 'return' to that edge leaving a slight space that they caulked in matching the grout. The space was for potential expansion. Since our wood was thicker than the tile they ran the 'return' through a planer to bring it to the tile height.

All our transitions to other floors are PERFECTLY flush and level and professionally done. The two owners were on the job the entire time and did all of the detail work. They each have 30-40 years experience installing flooring. Also, when I asked about other stores they had absolutely nothing bad to say about any of them, just told us how they were different.

A clincher for me was that they did all of the work with no deposit and the job was 1200 square feet of premium flooring!

I'll post pics later!

Would LOVE to see pics! I often have a hard time visualizing what's being referred to!

[jimbo2012]

Originally Posted by Biker Dog

Wrong again jimbo. A professional carpenter/installer with years of experience will always have level surface transitions between surfaces of different material. Thresholds & 1/4 rounds are what novice installers use.

Royal Palms are by far, in my opinion, the BEST installation company I have seen in The Villages.

In your opinion.

It is not possible to have level surfaces between all types of floors, not true.

How do you transition for example 3/4" wood floor to 1/4" tile or thin vinyl?



A threshold acts not only as a transition but a cap or finish to run of planks.

Look at a few of the "this old house videos" oops they're wrong too, I see.

One other point on engineered floors I doubt any manufacturer will warranty a floater with no transition areas, reason expansion.


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