Sounds fucking cool

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:25, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

I've got a big dark oak dining table and chairs to go in there as well
and am contemplating a wrought iron chandelier
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:27, Reply)

Our dining room
is all dark oak floors and a massive fuckoff table, with white walls and a black chandelier type light. It only appears to be missing a pig with an apple in its mouth and mead
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:29, Reply)

nice
I've yet to see what state my floorboards are in. With a bit of luck they'll be much nicer than the ones in the rest of the house. Otherwise I may have to lay an oak floor or something.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:29, Reply)

New house = laminate oak floors

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:31, Reply)

yeah, my house is 100 years old

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:32, Reply)

Get real oak, not that laminate crap.
Or at least, get the laminate with an actual oak top, rather than oak stained pine.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:34, Reply)

I got the proper oak topped stuff. Been down 7 years and still looks brand new

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:35, Reply)

How can you have laminate oak?
You either have plastic shit laminate or actual oak flooring, a fusion of the two does not exist
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:44, Reply)

It has plywood stuff underneath it and a thin layer of oak on the top

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:45, Reply)

Exactly this.
Now, lets get all knee jerky about something else and make ourselves look stupid.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:48, Reply)

Never come across that, sounds weird as with two seperate densities glued together surely it's prone to cracking (5mm top?) bowing buckling with moisture heat etc
Solid wood flooring or GTFO
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:49, Reply)

No. It isn't.
Move along.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:52, Reply)

Course it is it's shit
It's mimicking something which it aint for a cheaper price per m2, hence the phrase 'solid wood flooring' as a selling feature. Dur Al
( Light In Chains maker of the ikea sofa, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:55, Reply)

My response was to this bit:
"surely it's prone to cracking (5mm top?) bowing buckling with moisture heat etc"

No it isn't, if you buy the right stuff.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 10:03, Reply)

^ sense, right here

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:35, Reply)

I would do this.
laminate can fuck off
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:36, Reply)

my flat is victorian, so the floorboards are lovely
unfortunately when i pulled up the lounge carpet to think about having them stripped, the twat who owned the flat at some previous point covered them all in thick black tar. the flooring guy said they were ruined and i would need to replace them.

i put the carpet back down.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:46, Reply)

You could have sanded them
Or pulled them up and planed them and relayed them. He just wanted to charge you more for new flooring and avoid a messy job.
(Bazongaloid, Wed 18 May 2011, 9:49, Reply)